An ongoing collection noteworthy things found from the internet, curated by Sami Niemelä.
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Fabrickit is a collection of wearable electronic modules or “bricks” that make it easy to construct simple or complex wearable projects. Bricks connect to each other with a flexible, 3-wire conductive fabric ribbon. The fabrickit bricks and ribbon approach streamlines the construction of wearable projects, making them more reliable, attractive and ready-to-wear.
“We can begin to treat urban environments as system resources, rather than a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks.”
Frameworks for Citizen Responsiveness: Towards a Read/Write Urbanism (via smartercities)
Assaf Biderman explores similar ideas of this “real-time city” by studying how distributed technologies can be used to improve our understanding of cities and create a more sustainable ways of interacting in urban environments.
(via spime)
Los Angeles’ Metro is doing something that no transit agency in the country has ever done: it’s marketing its products and services as if it were a private company bent on turning a profit. But for Metro marketing isn’t about increasing the bottom line. It’s about reducing traffic, cleaning the air and making people’s commutes in this auto-clogged city a bit less stressful.
Palpable City explores the relationship between the abstract and concrete spaces of the city. The project allows walkers to feel the spatial form of the urban grid at their location as vibro-tactile rhythms on their body.
