Interactive art

the spectators from Young Sang Cho on Vimeo.

Interactive Architecture

made with openFrameworks from openFrameworks on Vimeo.

domus thesis-nature furniture for urban spaces

sound installation

The New York Times has an incredible issue out with all kinds of neat articles on design, marketing and product development for a kid audience. The overall tone of the articles is kind of cautionary though -- definitely worth a read. IDFuel has a reaction to a couple of the stories with a little toy designer's perspective thrown in.


http://www.idfuel.com/index.php?p=338&more=1&c=1

http://www.core77.com/corehome/2004/12/negative-design-and-marketing-to-kids.html

...or here Carsten Höller 1997 for the Tate Modern...the faster way...!

an alternative to boring stairs and elevators!?
artist carsten höller for the museum kunst-werke in berlin...the slide is part of the museum since 1998 and a great success...not only for children...
i think fun&play in urban or public spaces ist becoming rare these days...!

http://www.kw-berlin.de/english/about_frameset.htm

citymine(d) //the ball is a tool to make it impossible to overlook the young people who use urban space: in this case cars have to be careful for children instead of the other way round...

http://www.citymined.org/projects/ball.php

http://www.laptop.org/en/index.shtml

exploring . expressing . learning

this is a great link about the topic of children and education in the future/ one laptop per child

http://laptop.org/

FURNITURE FOR KIDS

http://www.modoloco.com/HTM/Industrial/Kitchen/Kitchen.htm

A4A cardboard furniture

http://www.a4adesign.it

Details Magazine on children space

http://www.detail.de/rw_5_Archive_En_HoleHeft_203_ErgebnisHeft.htm

FUJI KINDERGARTEN

please visit this link
www.monocle.com/sections/design/Web-Articles/Fuji-Kindergarten

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Mid revision presentation

China's Great Green Leap Forward

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/feat_popup_sb.html

Douglas McGray 04.24.07 | 2:00 AM

Dongtan is the first city designed from scratch for total environmental efficiency.

Dongtan sits at the eastern tip of Chongming Island, 470 square miles of mostly undeveloped land at the mouth of the Yangtze River. A bridge-and-tunnel system and subway extension will connect the island to Shanghai around 2010. By 2020, Dongtan will begin to grow north along a public transit corridor, but more than half of the site will still remain park and farmland.

CROPS Hollowed-out hills around Dongtan have been built to limit flooding and house underground organic "plant factories."	UTILITIES A power facility burns rice husks to make electricity and sends waste heat to homes and businesses. Nearly all trash is recycled.	FLOOD CONTROL A network of canals and ponds, modeled on ancient Chinese methods, protects the city from storm surges.	CARBON BAN Delivery trucks from elsewhere in China must park at the city limits and load goods onto shared zero-emission vehicles.	BUILDINGS Businesses and residences are four to eight stories high, tall enough to minimize sprawl, but not so tall that they sink in soft soil.	OPEN SPACE Sixty-five percent of the area is farms and parks.
					WIND ENERGY A large wind farm generates green electricity.

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SHOCKING CHINESE FUR FARMS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_8Ko-9uKRs   Hello everyone, Check this out

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An interesting documentary that goes into the life of factory workers in
extreme
detail, the reactions of the government to conditions and environment, and also
the reactions of the workers.

http://www.mardigrasmadeinchina.com/

Abalos & Herreros

Dynamic Architecture

http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/

Example of Kaisi Metals Factory

February 1, 2007

 

Hours: 

• Routine daily 14 ½ to 15 ½-hour shifts from 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 or 11:30 p.m. and sometimes later;
• Workers are often at the factory over 100 hours a week, while working 80 or more hours;
• At most, workers receive two or three Sundays off a month; 

 

 

Routine Daily Shift at the Kaisi Factory
(14 ½ to 15 ½ hours a day)

8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon	Work, 4 hours
12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m.	Lunch, 1 ½ hours
1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.	Work, 4 hours
5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.	Supper, 1 hour
6:30 p.m. to 10:30 or 11:30 p.m.	Overtime, 4 to 5 hours—sometimes more

           

             All overtime is mandatory.

 

Wages:

Median Wage for Kaisi Factory Workers
(824 RMB per month - $105.42)

32 cents an hour

$3.79 a day (12 hours)

$24.33 a week (77 hours)

$105.42 a month

$1,265.10 a year

 http://www.nlcnet.org/article.php?id=198

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Chinese villages...

According to my research I understand that  in the rapid pace at which china is growing..... many traditional elements like a traditional chinese village is fast dissapearing  in this rapidly growing  urban chaos / sense ( whichever way one looks at it)... So i was wondering that when we are talking about these villagers coming from these villages to work in these new factory / industrial towns...what exactly are we talking about...?? traditions exist in the ppl..they carry it forward no doubt... but arent these workers also loosing touch with their cultures and ways of living even when they are  in the villages (before they reach the age of leaving the so called villages to work in industrial areas...???) So what kind of memories are they carrying with them when they leave their villages and what kind of situations do they visit for that 10 days of their vacation time...???

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Conditions of Factory Dormitory

Highly Recommended!
http://www.nlcnet.org/article.php?id=198

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