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Open Source Ecology
Open Source Ecology (OSE)is a network of farmers, engineers and other supporters. The main goal of OSE is the eventual manufacturing of the…
Added by Eric de Haas on September 8, 2011 at 11:08pm — 1 Comment
Chernobyl — Baikonour Take Off
Monday 11-07 will be the start of a new 'Unknown Fields' mission. Unknown Fields is a nomadic studio that will set off on an annual expedition to the ends of the earth exploring forgotten landscapes, alien terrains and obsolete ecologies. Philips…
Added by Eric de Haas on June 30, 2011 at 10:00am — 1 Comment
We are all sleeping...
Jeremy Rifkin shows his vision on our future and does this in an admirable realistic clearity. He makes some…
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Food Future
The Dutch foundation Oxfam Novib, started a new international campaign called 'Grow' which focusses on our current foodsystem and aims for a sustainable future with a fair and solid foodsystem for everybody. Some key elements…
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Duckweed as the new snack
The Swedish artist Erik Sjödin has been experimenting with cultivating Azolla, a moss-like water-floating fern, for food puposes. He started in late…
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Machines of Loving Grace
In addition to the Livable Cities workshop and especially in addition to the story of Eleanor Saitta, this new documentary by Adam Curtis is a must see. It is a series about how computers have not liberated us but distorted and simplified our view of the world around us. It…
ContinueAdded by Eric de Haas on May 10, 2011 at 11:08am — No Comments
A Transition Utopia with a certainty of Failure?
That's right, the first day of the Livable Cities workshop triggered a lot of thoughts and inspiration. The speakers of day 1 were; Rob Hopkins,…
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Livable Cities Workshop
On April 27 and 28, the Livable Cities workshop of the Philips Design Probes will take place. Interesting speakers have been confirmed and will definitely spark some progressive thinking around the subject of '…
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Internet for Robots
Just as we are getting more and more used to 'learning through the internet', by means of of YouTube education (for instance, search query: 'how to make a perfect cappucino') there is now also an internet for robots, which is called roboearth.…
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The city of 42 million people
Added by Eric de Haas on January 27, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments
Constructing a Bulletproof Human Skin
The Dutch Waag Society launched a…
Added by Eric de Haas on January 18, 2011 at 9:07pm — No Comments
The Body Browser
While visiting the GoogleLabs website I got fascinated by the "Body Browser" experiment, a sort of google earth/maps on a body level, you can zoom in and out of a… Continue
Added by Eric de Haas on January 12, 2011 at 1:29pm — No Comments
The Internet of Things
'The Internet of Things' is a council that explores the possibilities and potential impact of a near invisible network of RFID tags. These tiny, traceable chips, which can be scanned wirelessly, are… Continue
Added by Eric de Haas on January 4, 2011 at 10:48am — 1 Comment
Big Bucks in Small Bugs
Solutions for a sustainable world tend to point more and more in the direction of microbes, it seems that these little bacteria are key in helping us to save the world. Due to the fact that they are the most ancient life form on earth and have been thus proven to be very successful in surviving numerous of extreme…
Added by Eric de Haas on December 30, 2010 at 11:26am — No Comments
Free Kevin
FREE KEVIN is an ongoing and roving screening series from a collection of 15.4 GB of downloaded films and documentaries depicting hackers and related computer culture from the 1980s-2000s. A range of material including…
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Ashes to... Yoghurt
Added by Eric de Haas on December 6, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments
Phil the radio dog
Added by Eric de Haas on December 3, 2010 at 12:09am — No Comments
The Second Life of a Chinese Robot Arm
Dirk vander Kooij, a Design Academy graduate, showed an interesting concept last week during the Dutch Design Week. Dirk bought Fanuc, a heavyset, yellow robot arm that was pensioned after working 140.000 hours non-stop at a chinese production line. By giving him new software and…
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Nano Supermarket During Dutch Design Week
Added by Eric de Haas on October 20, 2010 at 1:43pm — No Comments
The Internet as a political tool
Added by Eric de Haas on October 6, 2010 at 1:34am — No Comments
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