"Turning Food Waste into Graphene"
EU Project Explores Deriving Graphene From Food Waste"
I’ve
certainly seen many references to potential super material graphene
over the past few years… but I haven’t really dug into them. But not
only does this material have the potential to revolutionize the green economy, but it also could be produced from food waste. A new EU project, PlasCarb,
is exploring the potential to create graphitic carbon (the basic
material for graphene) and hydrogen from food headed for the landfill.
Whose Smart City?
Open Sustainability & Innovation
"Plaza del Torico, Teruel, HDR" by Marc
(marcp_dmoz) CC BY NC SA
The proliferation of 'smart' solutions to a deluge of political and economic problems in today's cities may well serve to reinforce urban inequality at a time when new radical alternatives are in desperate need.
As
a student of cities, I am very much interested in the diffusion and circulation
of buzzwords, global slogans and global ideas about cities and their
development strategies. In the last decade, I have observed the shifts from
debates on technological and information cities, to cultural cities, creative cities,
sustainable, green and resilient
cities, to our current conjuncture with the rise of the 'smart' cities. But what does
it mean for a city to be ‘smart’? What are the implications and
rationales behind smart urbanism? Is smart urbanism as positive as the term suggests?
The
concept behind smart cities is actually rather vague, there is
no common definition of what a smart city is, most commonly the idea
relies on the implicit assumption that urban infrastructures
and everyday life can/should be optimized and ’greened’ through the
technologies
and innovations of global IT companies. So, what’s the problem with
smart cities?
Who wouldn’t want to live in a smart city anyway?
"Cuerpo, deseo, amor y tecnología"
Technology & Society
“Cuerpo, deseo, amor y tecnología”
"La revolución cibernética conduce al hombre, ante la equivalencia del
cerebro y del computer, a la pregunta crucial: «¿Soy un hombre o una
máquina?». La revolución genética que está en curso lleva a la cuestión:
«¿Soy un hombre o un clon virtual?». La revolución sexual, al liberar
todas las virtualidades del deseo, lleva al interrogante fundamental:
«¿Soy un hombre o una mujer?» (…) En cuanto a la revolución política y
social, prototipo de todas las demás, habrá conducido al hombre, dándole
el uso de su libertad y de su voluntad propia, a preguntarse, según una
lógica implacable, dónde está su voluntad propia, qué quiere en el
fondo y qué tiene derecho a esperar de sí mismo -problema insoluble-.
Ahí está el resultado paradójico de cualquier revolución: con ella
comienzan la indeterminación, la angustia y la confusión."
Juan Pablo Anaya en Las Huellas del Hombre Invisible.
Ballerina Project - Beauty and Art Through Your Eyes
"Ballerina Project"
Beauty & Art Through Your Eyes
by Dane Shitagi
The
Ballerina Project grew from the idea of New York City as a magnet for
creativity; each photograph is a collaborative work of dance, fashion
design and photography played out against the city's landscape.
This
album will showcase the images that best represent the journey of the
Ballerina Project over the last 13+ years.
"streaming" de FIIS 2015 Donde Comienza el Cambio
Streaming via Movistar TV Chile
Disfruta de FiiS 2015 Del 22 al 24 de Octubre te traemos una nueva
edición del fiiS, Festival Internacional de Innovación Social. Tres días
en vivo de intercambio de experiencias para inspirar y acelerar uevas
conciencias, nuevos caminos y nuevas soluciones. FiiS 2015, la vitrina
más importante de Latinoamérica para los agentes de cambio, un festival
urbano con la mejor música y diversión.
Sigue el steaming de #Fiis2015
Clemens Behr "altering the perception of space"
"Clemens Behr" by via Collater.al (CC BY)
Behr is a street-artist active from the age of 18 years, which comes from the world of graffiti traditional but always fond of Futurism and broadcast by HBO Dadaism.
His
installations are amazing collage of cardboard, packing tape and
plastic bags, that invade public and private places, changing and
completely altering the perception of space.
"Antarctic Research Station Looks Like a Spaceship"
Science, Design & Disrupt
by WIRED
Antarctica is on Earth, but it feels alien—a vast, cold, rapidly melting desert populated by scientists and emperor penguins. So it makes sense that today’s Antarctic research stations look a lot like spaceships: They’re often the only things protecting their inhabitants from inhospitable places people really shouldn’t be living in... Full article via WIRED
"Lab Testing Reinvented" Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos
Science, Disrupt & Innovation
Elizabeth talked about this right and the importance
of enabling early detection and empowering individuals to make educated
decisions about their healthcare.
"I don’t want to make an
incremental change in some technology in my life. I want to create a
whole new technology, and one that is aimed at helping humanity at all
levels regardless of geography or ethnicity or age or gender." -
Elizabeth Holmes.
TEDMED is an
immersive experience that challenges us to recharge our brains, ignite
new thinking, energize our work and enlarge our worldview. We leave
TEDMED imagining fresh possibilities and solutions for the future of
health and medicine.
"Creativity from Southern World"
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