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.
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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 Melbourne Cities Transition Cluster is being established to focus on the implementation of platform projects that demonstrate and lead the transition of Melbourne towards a sustainable future.
The Future is Too Late
Mobilising a City-Wide Retrofit of Brisbane
Cut’n'paste Cities
A global call to action and an invitation to urban dwellers to describe through photography the places and things they love about their cities, and those that they could do without.
Mobile phone tracking in urban environments
This project explores the use of mobile phone data as a way of sensing patterns of movement across Sydney’s transport networks, including feasible platforms for this kind of data collection, and ethical issues.
What we're doing
- Want to see Integrated Design in practice? Have a look inside the big room http://bit.ly/9GMvnp #BIM 1 week ago
- Our latest data vis just went live. Best viewed in IE. http://bit.ly/9knkK0 Shows product demand created by 1200 buildings retrofit project 2010-08-03
- We're sharing the lessons learned from a year of #RevitMEP http://bit.ly/dAjm0N #Revit #BIM 2010-08-02
- Melbourne is open. Meet Russell Jessop, Gerard Healey and Andrew Potts at the Ice House this weekend http://moh.org.au 2010-07-22
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What we're reading
- Spit, Glue and Maybe Even Chewing Gum - NYTimes.com
- Artists Make DIY Bike Lane Along Helsinki Thoroughfare - GOOD
- New Cultural District Takes Shape in Hong Kong « The Dirt
- The Suburban General Store | Metropolis Magazine
- ball nogues: cradle installation in santa monica [designboom]
- Looking for a Job on Social Networking Sites - NYTimes.com
- GE Will Try to Reduce Energy Use by 70 Percent in a Few Test Cities - GOOD Blog - GOOD