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Now that Ayn Rand’s ’the Fountainhead’ is put on stage by ‘Toneelgroep Amsterdam‘ I started re-reading some of its chapters/dialoges, after having first read it long ago. Once again I find it stunning, in the sense that much of what Rand wrote in 1947 is still valid and maybe more valid then in her days. […]
A most interesting article published last month, on Sept. 27th.: “Technology will not save us“, by Michael Sacasas on “The Frailest Thing’. “Entering the complex and messy realm of of human desires and cultural dynamics”, Sacasas argues that “technological determinism is the product of cultural capitulation. It is symptom of social fragmentation.” Referring to Ellul […]
On October 20th at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven: the Internet of Things and the role of Design. – What is the Internet of Things? – What are the trends and how is this impacting you? – The role of Design – The need to think differently and why – Facilitated discussion on the […]
Sometimes one reads a book and wonders why one has not seen/read this before. To me, this is now the case with a book written by Prof. Jeremy Till, ‘Architecture Depends‘; with its intriguing photograph on the cover of a man dressed as a bear, with in the background the ‘Neue Nationalgalerie’ in Berlin designed […]
Next to many technologically focused and/or business-case driven meetings there was this much needed recent conference in York: IoT-Philosophy, from 3rd.-5th. of July 2014. Initiated/organised by Rob van Kranenburg (Sociotal), Justin McKeown (Univ.York St.John) and Joachim Walewski. It provided the framework for a thorough thinking: from the website’s homepage: “do we want to simply leave […]
Last April 9th. 2014 on WW-IoT-day, the 3rd. IoT & Build Environment Conference was held; once again in Rotterdam, this time at ‘the Gouvernestraat’. This location, with its history of over a hundred years of music, dance, theatre, poetry and meetings provided an excellent venue in the city-centre for both conference and parallel Hackaton, organised […]
the Dutch Architecture website Archined has published a report/article by Paul van en Bergh about the recent IoT-Build Environment conference in Rotterdam; so far – alas – only in Dutch.
During the 3rd. Internet of Things conference and Hackaton several interviews were made with speakers/participants: see/listen to e.g. Korrie Louwes, Lara Schrijver, Ben van Lier, Rob van Kranenburg. Alas, only in Dutch……………
On April 24th. 2013, the Dutch television showed a documentary about other forms of dwelling/living. Many of them tend to a originate from a form of escapism; they concern small units of housing which will be difficult to create and organise on a larger scale. That does not imply that the results, based on inventivity […]
At the IoT-conference on Build Environment & Smart City in Rotterdam on April 9th. we had a live-stream with Prof. Frans Vogelaar from hybridspacelab in Berlin; followed by a brief questioning from the conference audience.
