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Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPwhatmovesme

Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes & hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a photo announcing the weekend’s project every Friday.

The goal this weekend is to take creative videos showing the things that help you get from place to place, whether it’s your plane, taxi, scooter or even your own two feet. Some tips to get you started:

  • Methods of transportation are intricate in their own ways. Try focusing on details such as motors and propellers to capture an up-close view of the machines that move you.
  • Voyages and trips are all about locations. Give your videos a sense of place by filming your surroundings as you move through them, be it the hustle and bustle of a busy train station, scenes from your jogging path or the landscape rushing by your window.
  • The story of any trip can be told through much more than just what gets you there. Think about how the landscapes you pass through and the people you travel with help complete your story.

PROJECT RULES: Please only add the #WHPwhatmovesme hashtag to videos taken over this weekend and only submit your own videos to the project. Any video taken then tagged over the weekend is eligible to be featured right here Monday morning!

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Banksy graffiti in South Bronx, New York City.

Ghetto 4 Life.

This is a really powerful piece of graffiti. It shows how a lot of the graffiti that is being made in this day and age is by rich white kids trying to ge “hood” and “ghetto” when they really arent. Anything that is good and unique in our society is destroyed by rich white kids.

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Chasing Light in Antelope Canyon

To see more photos and videos from Antelope Canyon, check out the Antelope Canyon, Upper Antelope Canyon and Lower Antelope Canyon location pages.

Tucked away along the northern border of Arizona lies Antelope Canyon, one of the most visited—and photographed—locations in the American Southwest. Located on Navajo land, the landform is technically classified as a slot canyon, or a narrow canyon that is significantly deeper than it is wide. Like all slot canyons, Antelope Canyon was formed by flash floods rushing through underground crevices. Over time, the waters eroded the rock into the smooth, flowing landform seen today.

Antelope Canyon is divided into two sections, upper and lower, known in the native Navajo language as Tsé bighánílíní (“the place where water runs through rocks”) and Hazdistazí (“spiral rock arches”), respectively. The Canyon’s narrow top opening restricts the amount of sunlight than can enter, but results in a few dazzling beams that make it to the canyon floor. These beams, along with the canyon’s intense red glow and flowing lines, have made Antelope Canyon especially appealing to those Instagrammers adventurous enough to make the trek.

I nuovi luoghi del lavoro decontestualizzato.

La città del ‘900 degli orari fissi è finita. Il nuovo modo di lavorare, crea sostenibilità perchè non serve spostarsi per andare a lavorare. 

In questo modo cambia la pianificazione, perchè non serve estendere fisicamente la città in periferia, ma bisogna decontestualizzarla.

Il lavoro legato alla produzione materiale rimane, ma c’è tutto un lavoro immateriale fatto di intelligenza e di conoscenza.

Conoscenza virtualizzata.

#coworking 

#cloudcomouting

#makers, i nuovi produttori artigiani che producono dentro l’area urbana, generando una nuova rivoluzione industriale.

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I-Club, designed by Burkhard Dämmer: minimalist architectural lines

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CONVEGNO “LAVORO IN CORSO” - RIPENSARE I LUOGHI DELLA PRODUZIONE. COME IL POLITECNICO DI MILANO HA STUDIATO LA ZAI LUPATOTINA

Mercoledì 6 novembre, alle ore 18, appuntamento alla Pia Opera Ciccarelli 
per parlare, con amministratori, studenti e docenti, della trasformazione della città e dei luoghi della produzione. Sarà inaugurata anche la mostra degli elaborati sulla Zai lupatotina, realizzati dai laureandi in architettura.

Il convegno, aperto a tutti, è organizzato dal Comune di San Giovanni Lupatoto in collaborazione con il Politecnico di Milano, nell’ambito della convenzione siglata in primavera.

Le opere dei futuri architetti saranno poi in mostra al centro culturale sabato 9 e domenica 10 novembre. Non mancate!

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Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPemptyspaces

Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes & hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a photo announcing the weekend’s project every Friday.

The goal this weekend is to take creative photos or videos documenting abandoned locations or otherwise busy places when they’re empty. Some tips to get you started:

  • Capturing a busy space when it’s completely empty requires patience. Take time to wait for people to leave and consider scoping out your location in advance to see when the space receives the least traffic.
  • Many areas—both rural and urban—have abandoned buildings. Look for reminders of what once occupied the space and details of how it has decayed. Be careful when exploring abandoned sites or ruins, though, as they can occasionally be dangerous.
  • If you’re feeling particularly festive as many countries prepare to celebrate Halloween next week, seek out haunted houses in your area and tell their stories visually.

PROJECT RULES: Please only add the #WHPemptyspaces hashtag to photos and videos taken over this weekend and only submit your own photographs and videos to the project. Any image or video taken then tagged over the weekend is eligible to be featured right here Monday morning! 

Le città intelligenti hanno bisogno di un nuovo codice civico per avere successo

Estratto dall’articolo “Smart city need a new civic code to succeed” di Anthony Townsend da Wired UK 2013.

Negli ultimi anni i venditori delle multinazionali tecnologiche piu’ famose al mondo quali IBM, CISCO e SIMENS, avevano la missione di convincere i sindaci delle città del bisogno urgente di dotare di  tecnologie digitali le nostre città (lampioni wifi per esempio), per sopperire ai cambiamenti del 21 secolo.

Il lancio di queste soluzioni hanno incontrato parecchie difficoltà causate da budget ridotti di spesa e burocrazia ancora impreparata ad accogliere il cambiamento.

La pianificazione delle città per molti anni in passato è stata fatto da titaniche figure di progettisti che hanno lasciato i cittadini ai margini della risoluzione delle problematiche urbane.

Ma negli anni ’60, una nuova visione ha richiamato l’attenzione verso la questione dei quartieri da parte degli attivisti. Senza saperlo avevano lo stesso obiettivo del biologo evoluzionista e sociologo Scotsman Patrick Geddes che argomentava dicendo che per la rivitalizzazione urbana dei tessuti dismessi dall’industria, serviva che la cittadinanza ne prendesse parte.

Pensando alle attuali dicerie sugli edifici intelligenti, per gestire l’ingannevole promessa di tecnologia, Anthony Townsend propone una nuova civiltà basata sui seguenti elementi:

Optare per l’intelligenza: molti dei nostri problemi potrebbero essere risolti con la politica, con pianificazioni migliori, costituite da piani o progetti più intelligenti.

Costruire una rete: la competizone è per il controllo delle infrastrutture della città, ma invece di istituire un rigido sistema urbano definito, sarebbe meglio costruire una rete di tecnologie aperte che accolgano il cambiamento.

Modello trasparente: il più grande potere dell’informazione nelle smart city è il codice che le controlla. Mostrare gli algoritmi di questi software ed esaminare le decisioni con strumenti di supporto per informare i cittadini e dare loro una nuova consapevolezza urbana.

Pensare locale e aprirsi al mondo: non solo soluzioni taglia e incolla, prese da altre città. Bisognerebbe costruire per le condizioni locali, condividendo i risultati e le “best practice” con altre città del mondo e replicarle per il mercato locale.

Crowdsource, ma con cura: spesso il crowdsourcing è confuso con la privatizzazione e lascia i cittadini vulnerabili. Non va usato per replicare la pubblica amministrazione, ma per supportarla e integrare il reperimento di risorse materiali e immateriali.

Dati: quelli che oggi sono chiamati “big data” noi spesso dimentichiamo che possono aiutarci per progettare qualcosa con le informazioni.

 Le città connesse possono cambiare la vita alle nostre monotone abitudini quotidiane, il difficile è lavorare sull’efficienza, usandola piu’ di quanto ne consumiamo.

Anthony Townsend, autore del libro Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for A New Utopia.

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Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPstraightfacades

Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes & hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a photo announcing the weekend’s project every Friday.

This weekend’s Hashtag Project takes its inspiration from a new urban hashtag series catching on in the community: #straightfacades. In this series, Instagrammers take photos of the exterior walls—or facades—of a large building from straight on and crop out the building’s edges. This angle results in a geometric, almost abstract photo made entirely out of walls and windows. Now it’s your turn. The goal this weekend is to take your own creative facade photo. Some tips to get you started:

  • This project is all about lines and patterns. Take time to make sure your lines are straight, even and parallel with the edges of the frame to master the effect.
  • When possible, try to take your photo from a few floors up in a building across the street. This helps minimize street-level interruptions and lets you fill your frame with the wall you’re shooting.
  • Though it may seem like facades don’t change, keep an eye on light and shadows. Between light reflecting off glass and shadows cast by windowsills and balconies, there can be a lot of variation throughout the day.
  • With a strong grid as the basis for your photo, anything that breaks it becomes a focal point. Use this to your advantage as you shoot.

PROJECT RULES: Please only add the #WHPstraightfacades hashtag to photos taken over this weekend and only submit your own photographs to the project. Any image taken then tagged over the weekend is eligible to be featured right here Monday morning!

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House Katarina, Ljubljana, Slovenian by Multiplan Arhitekti

One-family house is located 20 minutes away from the main city Ljubljana, on a superb viewpoint, where the view creates the joint point of interior design in the house: the living room is a cinema with a projection screen, showing an uninterrupted image of the surrounding hills to the outlines of the capital city of Ljubljana, from the tree canopies to the green meadows and forests. In the context of today’s requirements and preferences, sustainability and continual development guide the design, the living concept is focused on the lifestyle of a modern man, who lives in the heart of nature, in immediate vicinity of the city. At almost seven hundred meters above sea level, the building is set into the space in a way to use the natural resources in biggest extent possible, and is therefore most respectful to natural environment.

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