walking around downtown vancouver on march 1st smelt and tasted like waking up in your house after a party during which you’d ended the evening being carried off to bed while strangers enjoyed the contents of your refrigerator and cupboards. the feeling had to be expressed.
where are Mukmuk and the gang now? is there some [...]
Currently, human communities are composed of a bunch of individuals, or ‘I’s. A traditional font writes I as I (times). Contemporary fonts are ‘sans-serif’; they drop the curly-ques at the ends of the letters. In either case, there is a close visual connection between I and 1, the numeral.
The numeral 1 is the first number [...]
Last week I printed google-map directions from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Media Centre to their National Convention Centre. I then followed these directions.
At 10:23am, I left the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Media Centre/Convention Centre and using only the times and directions on the map from Beijing, I ended up at the point at which [...]
One of the key goals for the modernist project has been an ongoing search for efficiency in all areas of life, but particularly in the home. Layered into the contemporary home are a few hundred years of effort on the part of builders, designers, and corporations trying to smooth out the daily lives of its [...]
recently the adeptly-named ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) proposed the creation of a .eco domain name. the concept would be to reward organizations that meet certain environmentally-aware criteria with a .eco site. potential visitors to such sites would be guaranteed to be supporting climate-friendly organizations. interestingly, the two front runners to administer [...]
Some of you may have heard of my ongoing war against the humble banana. if a harangue from me has not convinced you, maybe this will. (full credit to treehugger.com for this excellent munitions package!)
1. Bananas
We eat them every day, and their carbon footprint is huge. This fruit originated in Asia but is [...]
The idea of new urbanism was developed a number of years ago by architects and planners in order to combat urban sprawl, tract housing, and all of those evil ideas.
A common criticism of new urbanism is that it exclusively creates community or private space; you are either always around people who you sort-of know, and [...]
Our big studio project this term has been to design a community centre based off one of several long-span (read really big room) precedents. My studio prof has literally won a Governer’s General Gold Medal in Architecture for her community centres. Our community centres consist of a large gymnasium area, lounge, social kitchen, meeting [...]
The links between community-creation, design and transit are the subject of numerous studies and authoritative scholarly interviews at the macro level of construction and development projects. What about the micro-level? What can happen on an individual bus to create community?
Broadway can traversed by either the double digit express or the more [...]
