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Stanza: The Emergent City. From Complexity to The City of Bits

Redazione Digicult
The Emergent City. From Complexity to The City of Bits captures the changes over time in the environment (city) and represents the changing life and complexity of space as an emergent artwork. The installation goes beyond simple single user interaction to monitor and survey in real time the whole city and entirely represent the complexities of the real time city as a shifting morphing and complex system.... READ MORE...
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Libre Graphics Meeting and Interactivos?’13: Tools for a Read-Write World

Loretta Borrelli
Future Tools was the title of the 8th edition of the Libre Graphics Meeting that this year took place from April 10 to 13 at the new Media Lab Prado In Madrid. For the first time, the title of the meeting not only pointed to the search for new tools but also emphasized the need to extend the use of FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) to the wider population of users. There were lots of innovative elements this year. Among them, the most important was no doubt the fact that the meeting took place at the same time as Interactivos?'13: Tools for a Read-Write World.... READ MORE...
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Design Summer Camp 2013: Call for Entries, by Design Library Milan

Redazione Digicult
In collaboration with small and medium enterprises, professionals from the craft industry, local entities, designers and e-commerce platforms, DesignLibrary opens a Call for Entry to designers who would like to cement themselves into the world of work. A week-long intensive workshop on site next to craftsmen of district products from Como, Lecco and Treviso, under the supervision of three exceptional coaches.... READ MORE...
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#Advancity. An antidisciplinary Manifesto for design, art and science

Sabina Barcucci
“Facts, not opinions” this is the inscription engraved on the gable at the entrance of an eccentric museum in the city centre of London. The museum hosts the machinery tried by David Kirkaldy, the first scientist who in 1865 tested industrial steel in order to make it a construction material for bridges, ships and railways. The inscription is a real declaration of intentions that describes the main role played by the scientific method and thinking within the paradigmatic shift occurred in the second half of the 19th century.... READ MORE...
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Mapping Festival. A little treasure between the Swiss Alps

Donata Marletta
The 9th edition of Mapping Festival took place from 2nd to 12th May in different venues around the city of Geneva (CH). I was invited by Ana Ascencio, co-curator of the festival to attend the concluding weekend of Mapping that this year presented a whole schedule filled with live AV performances, installations, workshops, club nights, lectures, round table, and outdoor video projections.... READ MORE...
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