The results of the Arup film and animation workshop held at the Film and Animation School at the Victorian College of the Arts
Archive for the ‘Cities’ Category
1200 Buildings data visualisation
A visual solution to interacting with large amounts of data grabs the viewer’s attention and provides a conceptual and holistic view of a project.
The Impossible Dynamic City
The Impossible Dynamic City is a sequence of short animations from the Arup film and animation workshop developed with the Victorian College of the Arts.
Mobility New Thinking Demonstrator
One of the key themes for this year’s Victorian State of Design (SoD) Festival is mobility and a focus of events on Tuesday 20th July. Susan de Vere, Adam Leggett, Dan Hill and I participated in the workshop on the Mobility New Thinking Demonstrator and we then attended Chris Bangle’s public talk on the Future of Personal Mobility.
The Towards Zero Carbon film
Carbon Neutral, Zero Carbon; what do these carbon targets mean, what are the implications for the built environment and how do we achieve them?
Sensing the city, update three: sensing
This update is in three parts: ‘our approach’; ‘the hardware’; and ’sensing’. This entry is continued from ‘the hardware’.
It turns out few people have Bluetooth turned on and visible by default. When my colleague at Arup Jason McDermott helped create an urban sensing installation in central Sydney (Smart Light Fields) they observed around 8% of [...]
Sensing the city, update two: the hardware
This update is in three parts: ‘our approach’; ‘the hardware’; and ’sensing’. This entry is continued from ‘our approach’.
CRIN have explored some simple hardware platforms, particularly the Gumstix and Beagleboard ’sawn-off’ PCs (strictly, ‘computers-on-module’). Below, a few shots from a recent session discussing the hardware. Be warned, this will get a little geeky.
Note the core [...]
Sensing the city, update one: our approach
This update is in three parts: ‘our approach’; ‘the hardware’; and ’sensing’.
A quick technical update on our mobile phone sensing project with UTS (see earlier post for context). This project is exploring technical approaches to sensing the presence of mobile phones in transit environments (bus, train, ferry etc.) as well as pedestrians, in order to [...]
Interactive voting for the Drivers of Change
Duncan Wilson has created an interactive tag cloud for our SlimCity and Drivers of Change workshops
Transitioning to the Eco-Age
The Building Melbourne initiative is being established to focus on the implementation of platform projects that demonstrate and lead the transition of Melbourne towards a sustainable future.
What we're doing
- We are mapping people's cone of vision in 3D http://t.co/5zCUTQvh
- Huge datasets on projects? Submerge is our new 3D analysis visualisation environment http://t.co/G3ZfFUnU #BIM
- RT @ArupThoughts: Philip Dilley, @ArupGroup Chairman, reflects on the positive impacts #engineers + #designers have had in 2011 http://t ...
- Arup wins national sustainability award for improving office energy efficiency. Our Realtime tool plays a starring role http://t.co/Nuuu3UPt
- Great buildings should be beautiful, inspiring and draw people to create a great city - at Zunz #Arup
What we're reading
- LDF 2011: Textile Field by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec [Design Milk]
- Number of Female Cyclists Lags in New York, With Safety as a Concern [NYTimes.com]
- A net-zero-impact urban farm system called Polydome [Change Observer: Design Observer]
- At a Co-op Fabrication Shop, L.A. Makers Build Furniture and ...
- China may grow old before it grows rich [guardian.co.uk]
- Canadian traffic in psychological gridlock [THE GLOBE AND MAIL]
- Tracking Your Wi-Fi Trail at the Airport - [NYTimes.com]