Updates and recent cases
NEXT 2010 - Simple ways to reduce CO2-emissions
Category: Article
Written by Lan Thuy Pham, 5. september 2010
Ken Rother, President and COO of Treehugger, one of the largest blogs for green news, starts out by announcing that he is going to thwart the sense of hope given in the other GREEN-talks. He adds that his talk is going to depress you a bit, especially the first part. However, the goal of the presentation is also to impart some inspiration and make it clear that it is possible to make an impact. Read more »
Author: NEXT 2010 - Living architecture
Category: Article
Written by Lan Thuy Pham, 5. september 2010
Rachel Armstrong starts out with a quote back from 1771: Venice is sinking. She adds that Venice seems to stand in defiance of nature and the city is doing a great job keeping afloat. Venice is using the latest aquarian technology: Draining techniques, canals etc. are supporting the city. However, the water is still incredible disrupting to the city, and expensive buildings have been abandoned because of the water. Marble with deep ridges in it is a common sight as well. Read more »
NEXT 2010 - Hacking the earth
Category: Article
Written by Lan Thuy Pham, 3. september 2010
"Hacking the earth - without breaking the warranty" is the name of Jamais Cascio's presentation. He has recently been named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy in 2009. Jamais Cascio is founder of the Open the Future and has coined the term 'bright green'. He warns that his presentation will make you feel uncomfortable and maybe even a bit angry, because it is about the options we don't want to take, but will end up taking eventually. Read more »
NEXT 2010 - Biomemetics - exploiting the world's largest R&D division
Category: Article
Written by Lan Thuy Pham, 3. september 2010
The first GREEN presentation is about biomemetics, a relative newly coined concept that describes methods in which technologies etc. mimic the nature. The two speakers point out that nature is the world's largest and oldest R&D division with 3.8 billion years of trial and error. Read more »
NEXT 2010 - The intersection
Category: Article
Written by Thomas Wittenburg, 2. september 2010
A look into the intersection between technology, art and design by french blogger Regine Debatty, founder of WeMakeMoneyNotArt.com.
Will Sansom used the Nike chalkbot as a case study on mondays CareWare session. Regine heard that, and thought she'd seen it before. And she had. Joshua Kinbergs bike-driven road printer is more than six years old. The point is, that a lot of seemingly innovative marketing ploys are directly inspired by what artists been doing several years before. Read more »
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