CREATIVITY & DISRUPT

TECH predictions for 2018: Mixed Reality

FULL CREATIVITY IN THIS BEST OF BY DESIGNBOOM

TECH predictions for 2018: a look at the year ahead! will it be a good one? we foresee the major tech trends you’ll be working and playing with in 2018, and the design developments they will impact upon. Four decades ago, virtual and augmented reality were the future. fast forward to the present day and they combine to create a 21st century passport into an alternate universe in mixed reality. merging the digital and the physical, tech giants everywhere are recognising the value in bringing together the immersive capabilities of a head-mounted VR set and the ability of AR to place data into the real world environment.Mixed reality reinvents the storytelling process. it merges narratives with reality and presents viewers with a wholesome experience that’s perpetually indistinguishable from real life. this cultivates a fertile ground for increased contact between all participating entities, ergo fostering the creation of shared experiences. Google invested in ‘magic leap’, an allusive mixed reality company. now, apple are getting their teeth into MR which means only one thing – world domination. but back in 2015, microsoft launched hololens, one of the first devices both popularising and merging AR and VR. and the evolution of this device provides an interesting framework with which to navigate the future of MR.  

NEW YEAR SUPERMOON 2018
Art "THE SPIRIT OF MOON" by @msanhuezacelsi

2018 surprises us with a supermoon on Monday,  the first of two "supermoons" in January nicknamed a Wolf Moon.  This supermoon is actually the second of three back-to-back supermoon full moons to come only in two months. A supermoon is a full moon or a new moon that approximately coincides with the closest distance that the Moon reaches to Earth in its elliptic orbit, resulting in a larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth. The technical name is the perigee syzygy of the Earth–Moon–Sun system. The term supermoon is not astronomical but originated in modern astrology. The association of the Moon with both oceanic and crustal tides has led to claims that the supermoon phenomenon may be associated with increased risk of events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, but there is no such link.

 

 PASSION & DISRUPT

"10 Health IT predictions for 2018"

BY BILL SIWICKI VIA HEALTHCAREITNEWS.COM

 

10 Health IT predictions for 2018: Al, blockchain, robotics and a $100 million class-action suit... Emerging technologies will start to gain some firmer footing in the year ahead, moving out of pilot testing and into production environments. By the end of 2020, 25 percent of data used in medical care will be collected and shared with health systems by the patients themselves. In the same timeframe, adoption rates of IoT-enabled asset tracking and inventory management systems in hospitals will have doubled worldwide, improving patient safety, staff satisfaction and operational efficiency. These are just two predictions from the new report “Worldwide Health Industry 2018 Predictions” from research and consulting firm IDC Health Insights. Here’s the full list via healthcareitnews.com

 PASSION & DISRUPT

"TOP 10 Art Exhibitions 

of 2017"

  FULL CREATIVITY IN THIS BEST OF BY DESIGNBOOM

As we move into december, we continue our annual TOP 10 round up of the year’s most talked about projects with a look at ten art exhibitions featured on designboom over the past 12 months. See designboom’s TOP 10 stories archive: Monumental in scale, discipline, material and theme, some of the most renowned, international creatives displayed their new and most famous works around the globe this year. the exhibitions have immersed audiences in an impactful and significant experiential context — from damien hirst’s mysterious treasures of venice to yayoi kusama’s takeover of david zwirner gallery in new york.

  SCIENCE & CREATIVITY

"NEXT LIST 2017" 
20 Tech visionaries

  WHO ARE CREATING THE FUTURE

BY WIRED

Microsoft will build computers even more sleek and beautiful than Apple’s. Robots will 3-D-print cool shoes that are personalized just for you. (And you’ll get them in just a few short days.) Neural networks will take over medical diagnostics, and Snapchat will try to take over the entire world.

The women and men in these pages are the technical, creative, idealistic visionaries who are bringing the future to your doorstep. You might not recognize their names—they’re too busy working to court the spotlight—but you’ll soon hear about them a lot. They represent the best of what’s next.  READ THIS FULL ARTICLE VIA WIRED...

 

"CITYLAB LATINOAMERICA" STREAMING EN VIVO

Citylab Latinoamérica el encuentro de la creatividad en la ciudad, en todos los ámbitos y disciplinas repasará lo más importante de la producción creativa 2017 en su formato de meetup y, por primera vez, abarcará la región latinoamericana, a través de exponentes destacados de 8 países de la región. Una nueva oportunidad para compartir, difundir y experimentar la creatividad.  Unete este 13 y 14 de diciembre en el GAM Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral,  Santiago de Chile. SIGUE EL  STREAMING  EN VIVO via  Cooperativa.

 

 

  CREATIVITY & DISRUPT

Anneke van Giersbergen "VUUR" Band

LIVE AT CONCERTO A JOURNEY THROUGH ROCK & BEAUTY

Anneke Van Giersbergen with an acoustic performance of her new project VUUR on the stage of the Amsterdam Concerto Record store...   Watch Now  This Amazing Show In  The Beautiful Voice  Of Anneke. The Dutch vocalist Anneke van Giersbergen is an artist that defies being pigeonholed by genre. She will forever be known as the vocalist for melancholic metallers The Gathering, but since striking out on her own in 2007, she has solidified a solo career, recorded and performed multiple times with   Devin Townsend, Anathema, Within Temptation, Moonspell, Nalm Death and more.

This has provided Anneke with a huge catalogue to choose from as a live performer,  which has led to the creation of a new group, VUUR, a band that features some of the best heavy metal players in the Netherlands.  In 2016, Anneke decided for the sake of clarity to narrow her musical focus, choosing to go in a folk acoustic direction as a solo artist and in a heavy progressive metal direction as a band vocalist. The name VUUR – translated from Dutch as “fire”, which can also be interpreted to mean “passion” or “drive” – was chosen as a moniker to represent Anneke’s metal side, with the idea that when fans buy a ticket with the VUUR name on it they will be getting her heavy progressive music, while an Anneke van Giersbergen show will be entirely different.

 

  CREATIVITY & DISRUPT

Stefano Boeri designs to eat up China's smog

"Vertical Forest City"

BY ELEANOR GIBSON VIA DEZEEN.COM

Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans for a city near China's Liuzhou, featuring towers completely covered in trees and plants to combat air pollution. The Liuzhou Forest City will feature nearly 40,000 trees and almost one million plants, comprising 100 different species. The greenery is designed to trail over balconies and the roofs of a series of skyscrapers spanning 175 hectares along the Liujiang river, in the mountainous area of Guangxi.

 
Following on from Boeri's past trials of "vertical forests" in Milan and in Lausanne, the masterplan forms part the architect's Forest City concept, which will see cities made up of plant-covered skyscrapers rolled out across China's urban areas as a way to offset urban pollution. The architect's studio Stefano Boeri Architetti has also proposed a similar design for city in Shijiazhuang, while its pair of plant-covered skyscrapers recently broke ground in the centre of Nanjing. Each scheme provides sustainable high-density housing and office space packed heavily with greenery, as a way to depollute the surrounding environment by filtering dust particles from the air and absorbing carbon dioxide. READ FULL ARTICLE  VIA DEZEEN.COM

"PARQUE FIIS"LA FIESTA DE LA INNOVACIÓN

fiiS (Festival Internacional de Innovación Social) es el evento más importante del área de América,  y este 2017 en Santiago celebrando la creatividad y la innovación con propósito, culmina sus  actividades en el "Parque Araucano de Las Condes" el viernes 8 de diciembre, con un espectacular cierre con música en vivo liderado por Babasónicos; Perota Chingó y Moral Distraída,  junto a una serie de actividades, speakers (como el cofundador de TESLA, Leonardo Farkas ymuchos más), talleres, y sorpresas para toda la familia.
 

 

CREATIVITY  & DISRUPT

"FIIS 2017 El Festival de Innovación Social"

 LA OPORTUNIDAD DE GENERAR UN CAMBIO

Para celebrar la creatividad e innovación con propósito, llega a Santiago la quinta versión del Festival Internacional de Innovación Social (fiiS). Dentro de los platos principales, se cuentan con las tradicionales Charlas D-Mentes, que este año se enmarcarán dentro de los lineamientos del desarrollo sostenible. Festival Internacional de Innovación Social, es formado por un colectivo de instituciones, empresas y entidades públicas que organizan charlas, talleres y actividades, teniendo como foco la innovación, sustentabilidad, economía, el bien común y la inclusión.

"El  Festival Internacional de Innovación Social" es un intercambio de experiencias para inspirar y acelerar nuevas conciencias, nuevos caminos y nuevas soluciones. FiiS 2017,  es la vitrina más importante de Latinoamérica para los agentes de cambio, un festival urbano con expositores de nivel mundial y  la mejor música. Para este evento que ya tiene verciones en distintas ciudades de Chile y de América Latina (Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Lima, La Plata, Antofagasta y Concepción) se a convirtido en un polo de innovación con impacto social a escala global. En esta versión Santiago recibirá entre el 5 y 8 de diciembre la quinta versión  con sus tradicionales Charlas D-Mente y un acto cultural de cierre PARQUE FIIS con la presentación de Babasónicos y Moral Distraída, entre otros artistas y innovadores que  pretenden convocar a un amplio público para abordar los cambios y  las problemáticas tanto a nivel local como mundial con una VISIÓN SUSTENTABLE, DISRUPTIVA & CREATIVA.

 

  

"MEDUSA INKART" BEAUTY & DARKNESS

Medusa amazing tattoo artwork by Jake Danielson at Melbourne... In Greek mythology, Medusa  was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as a winged human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair. Gazers upon her hideous face would turn to stone. Medusa was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. 

 
 

  CREATIVITY & DISRUPTION

"The Future of Work"

Vision & Strategies for Abundance

LIVE EVENT BY GARY BOLLES VIA SINGULARITYU

Exponential technologies have ripple effects that are dramatically changing the world of work. Yet too much of the popular focus on the future of work has been on the disruption of human work by robots and AI. There are effective strategies we can follow today to ensure that individuals, organizations, communities and countries can all thrive during this transition. 

Gary A. Bolles is a 35-year Silicon Valley veteran who serves as Singularity University’s Chair for the Future of Work. As a partner in Charrette LLC, he helps organizations and agencies with actionable strategies for the new world of work. And he is the co-founder of eParachute.com, which creates online tools inspired by “What Color Is Your Parachute?”, the world’s enduring career manual.  ...WATCH THIS GREAT LIVE EVENT [Wednesday, December 6th 2017 at 16:00 PST].