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Mar 4, 20110

MIT Media Lab: Recompose

Recompose is a new system for manipulation of an actuated surface. By collectively utilizing the body as a tool for direct manipulation alongside gestural input for functional manipulation, they show how a user is afforded unprecedented control over an actuated surface. It was developed by Matt Blackshaw, David Lákatos, Anthony Devincenzi, Daniel Leithinger, Hiroshi Ishii from MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group. They describe a number of interaction techniques exploring the shared space of direct and gestural input, demonstrating how their combined use can greatly enhance creation and manipulation beyond unaided human capability. Check out the video below. via media.mit.edu/recompose

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Dec 8, 20100

DESIGN AND EXISTENTIAL RISK LECTURE SERIES 009

Parsons The New School for Design

The Dean’s Office presents:

DESIGN AND EXISTENTIAL RISK LECTURE SERIES

ANNIE KWON & ADRIANA YOUNG: The New School, GPIA, Crisis Networks MICHAEL CHEN & JASON LEE: Pratt Architecture, Crisis Fronts MATHAN RATINAM: Parsons SDS, Coordinator of Humanitarian Design Platform  Thursday, December 9, 2010 6:00 – 8:30 pm Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue [at 13th street], NYC Free and open to the public; seating limited  Design and Existential Risk is a series of conversations with leading thinkers, designers, and educators  who critically question how the practice of design can imagine and prepare for extreme existential risks.  The series explores the ways design thinking engages sustainability and human survival now and in the future.

The Dean’s Office presents:

DESIGN AND EXISTENTIAL RISK LECTURE SERIES

Parsons The New School for Design

Thursday, December 9, 2010
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue [at 13th street], NYC
Free and open to the public; seating limited

ANNIE KWON & ADRIANA YOUNG: The New School, GPIA, Crisis Networks

MICHAEL CHEN & JASON LEE: Pratt Architecture, Crisis Fronts

MATHAN RATINAM: Parsons SDS, Coordinator of Humanitarian Design Platform

Design and Existential Risk is a series of conversations with leading thinkers, designers, and educators  who critically question how the practice of design can imagine and prepare for extreme existential risks.  The series explores the ways design thinking engages sustainability and human survival now and in the future.

Jun 21, 20100

core.balance: Baubotanical Growth

A group of students from the University of Stuttgart have developed a method of using steel tubes and the growth of White Willow Trees to design a free standing 9 meter tall structure. The students were studying the elasticity of the trees along with its ability to be integrated into a synthetic framework to give directions and secondary support. This could be the beginnings of the idea growth of architecture..ie..the likes of John Johansen.

Jun 17, 20100

soft.core: Architectural Artifacts

From Icon comes news of the Zamani Project, a fascinating research initiative in which University of Cape Town scientists render the African landscape in 3-D. Through photography, laser-scanning, and a slew of other mapping techniques we’ve never heard of (photogrammetry? say what?) — they’re compiling a uniquely comprehensive digital database of Africa’s built environment, from Persian baths in Zanzibar to mosques in Timbuktu. As best we can tell, it’s the largest documentation endeavor of its kind.

Jun 10, 20101

core.curation: Numen/For Use

Packing Tape…that is all that is needed to make this incredible structure designed by Numen/For Use. I have seen a dozens of these formal attempts made out of cardboard, plastic…etc….none of them are nearly as good as this packing-tape example. enjoy>

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