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• The Agostinis and Harrison-Off Design Institute (A.H.D.I.)

  
  Come Up To My Room - THE Alternative Design Blog — Authority: 108
  Matthew Agostinis | Joel Harrison-Off The A.H.D.I. studied at the prestigious Sheridan College school of Crafts and Design in the furniture program and graduated in 2001.  They went on to pursue careers as furniture makers and proceeded to burn down their first shop.  After the fire, they set up in the Living Arts ...
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• Alexx Boisjoli | Ian Phillips

  
  Come Up To My Room - THE Alternative Design Blog — Authority: 108
  Boisjoli is a visual artist and designer working in porcelain. Utlizing advanced techniques in design, production and finishing, Boisjoli develops items unique in character and functional in their simplicity. His direct focus is toward creating domestic objects that stand out in your space but feel good in the hand. ...
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• Fireweed

  
  Come Up To My Room - THE Alternative Design Blog — Authority: 108
  Erin O’Hara | Andy Miller Fireweed was born of a shared fondness for giving old objects and reclaimed materials a new purpose by using them to create contemporary art and design. It is a small collective with ambitious ideas, made up of two members: O’Hara and Miller. This exhibition will be their first ...
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• Soon Cho

  
  Come Up To My Room - THE Alternative Design Blog — Authority: 108
  sooncho.com My name is Soon Cho, I am a textile artist trained in Rhode Island School of Design, RI and I am based in Toronto. My work is based on using the everyday manufactured materials to its highest value. I see many products and materials that people use everyday, such as drinking straws, plastic forks, ...
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• Chair Projects – University of Waterloo

  
  Come Up To My Room - THE Alternative Design Blog — Authority: 108
  The project requires the design, construction and structural analysis of a folding or take-apart wood chair.  Course assignments guide the project through the steps of research, conceptualization, design development, construction, review and presentation, comprehensive structural analysis of the chair in its ...
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• Toward the Sentient City: The Future of the Outernet and How to Imagine it?

  
  UgoTrade — Authority: 542
  Amphibious Architecture – “submerges ubiquitous computing into the water—that 90% of the Earth’s inhabitable volume that envelops New York City but remains under-explored and under-engaged.” Toward the Sentient City , brought “architects and urban designers into a conversation that until now has ...
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• Lift off installation underway **UPDATED**

  
  the Triangle, not just parking lots anymore... — Authority: 498
  by KimFromTheK The installation of David Blacks Lift Off sculpture is underway this morning at the 5th and K plaza space in front of Busboys. UPDATE (11/9/2009 1:22PM) : City Vista resident Sean Smith has sent in photos of the installation progress.
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• The Phantom City: A Ubiquitous Museum

  
  The Pop-Up City — Authority: 421
  Humans are curious, and they love their curiosity being triggered. In regard to this, the New York-based Museum of the Phantom City does a very good job by using personal digital devices to transform the city into a living museum. Architects Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder are the initiators of this project, which is ...
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• Call for papers – Cities in turmoil

  
  Re-public: re-imagining democracy - english version — Authority: 122
  Re-public invites contributions for a special issue dedicated to “Cities in Turmoil“. Cities matter politically, not merely as sites where the political occurs, but as part of the political itself, participating in the reconfiguration of citizenship. This is the space in which local topographies are interconnected ...
  3 days ago

• Looking At Reception Furniture

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 150
  As with some open space, a getting area does requirement to countenance good. This applies to everything from hotels to hairdressers. The difficulty is, many grouping ease don’t undergo how to do this and they crapper end up with a kinda ramshackle space that does lowercase to impress. Reception furnishings needs ...
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• Book Review: Activism Doubt

  
  The Pop-Up City — Authority: 421
  Activism Doubt is a vibrant new book by Dutch Artists Harmen de Hoop and Jonas Staal . The book published by Onomatopee is the result of a collaboration between the two in the period 2007-2009. Activism Doubt is a visual, playful and theoretical dialogue about the role of art in public space. Within this ...
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• On Moscow’s Public Toilets

  
  The Pop-Up City — Authority: 421
  In most cities it’s a hell of a job to find a decent toilet in public space. Although iPhone apps are available to help you finding one and point you into the right direction, toilets are never close, especially not when you need one. Many Western cities consider public sanitary primarily as a public ...
  6 days ago

• News Roundup: Bake Sale Ban, Professional Network for Jamaica, etc.

  
  Idealist in NYC — Authority: 415
  News from the past week: NYC Students Rally Together (NYC Private Schools Blog) Groups Urge Opening of Vacant Condos to the Poor (City Room) ‘Suspects’ Talk Back: Muslims Complain to FBI (City Limits) Poverty Fighters Get Their Own Consultancy (City Limits) Helping Spin Gold From a Pile of Garbage ...
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• Flagging Doggy Doo

  
  UrbanWorkbench — Authority: 414
  Public spaces should be respected and kept clean for the enjoyment of all; and around here, there is a group of people who are not all pulling their weight – Dog Owners. Now, I’ve got animals that produce extraordinary amounts of excrement, but our dwarf bunnies could hardly be pinned as the culprits for ...
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• CurbedWire: Santa Monica Blvd As Big Bike Lane? MAK Center Opens Its Doors

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 644
  LOS ANGELES : The LA Times reports on a group called cicLAvia who want to start a ciclovia , a time when a city closes off major roadways to cars and opens them entirely up to bicyclists, in LA. The idea, as explained by Jonathan Parfrey, director of the Green LA Institute, is "to create public space using the ...
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• Urban Researchpresented by Klaus W. EisenlohrThursday, 05 Nov....

  
  Directors Lounge Blog — Authority: 403
  Urban Research presented by Klaus W. Eisenlohr Thursday, 05 Nov. 2009 20:00 Medienhaus Hannover e.V. Schwarzer Bär 6 30449 Hannover www.medienhaus-hannover.de 0511-441 440 Klaus W. Eisenlohr, artist and filmmaker in Berlin, former Cast & Cut fellow in Hannover, presents a selection of his curated ...
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• Urban Cursor: GPS seating facilitates social interaction in public spaces

  
  Numelo Blog >> Sneakers - Fashion - Lifestyle — Authority: 130
  Displayed during the cultural festival Ingravid, Catalunya (Spain), the “Urban Cursor” is a GPS-enabled bench or seating that allows social interaction in public spaces. The brainchild of Danish designer Sebastian Campion, the 3D computer cursor can be moved around as an on-screen computer pointer and keep in ...
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• Charrette particpants asked to describe DeRenne Avenue now and in the future

  
  Sustainable Savannah | Tracking sustainability news and events in Savannah, Georgia (and beyond) — Authority: 98
  As cars and trucks droned by outside, citizens streamed into a former auto parts store at the corner of DeRenne Avenue and Montgomery Street. The purpose of the gathering tonight was the launch of a week-long design charrette focused on the DeRenne Avenue corridor, arguably one of the most important yet troubled ...
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• Waterpleinen

  
  the map village street editors — Authority: 124
  Stormwater systems in cities are typically designed to get rid of rain water, but with increasingly violent rainstorms and aging infrastructure systems, low lying cities are more vulnerable to flooding.  This has lead the Dutch office ‘DE URBANISTEN’ to came up with a new solution for this growing worldwide ...
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• Easy street reclamation

  
  west north — Authority: 112
  Reclaimed street stub Originally uploaded by Payton Chung The WPB plan calls for reclaiming street space along Wood and Hermitage, little stub-end streets on the 1300 block of N. Milwaukee that were cut off by the subway trench. They’re “the big empty streets to nowhere,” as the plan calls them, and their ...
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