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Discussions about CO2 emissions and calculations about their potential environmental impact have become an everyday feature of our lives. But how to relate this abstract considerations to our daily experiences, at best in association with the local architecture? The Berlin based artist group realities:united comes up with a solution that is as simple as amazing….

How is it possible to mix intelligent computer technology and architecture, in a way that our lives do not become even more difficult? With his Voyeur project Chia Chi Yeah developed an interesting approach….

In 2010 the people from WHIM architecture submitted their project Recycled Island to our [the next idea] voestalpine art and technology grant, and over the last two years it has evolved in such a way that it is now ready for Kickstarter! We are happy to see that!

Screens and displays can be found almost everywhere, on our mobiles, in our car or in our livingroom. With his project L.S.D, the artist Benjamin Gaulon tries to create a new viewpoint on this everyday devices.

The project GiraDora shows what social design can do! Come up with easy solutions to current problems and invite local people to participate. The outcome: a human-powered washer and spin dryer that increases the efficiency and improves the experience of hand-washing clothes for women living without access to running water.

PUCK is a project by Jen Stein and means “Place-based, Ubiquitous, Connected and Kinetic Experiences for Interactive Architecture” and by merging digital technologies, information and architecture she creates a new way of interacting and experiencing buildings and places.

by Salvatore Iaconesi/Art is Open Source World Making incorporated is a fictional (yet existing) company with millions of associates, together with an ubiquitous technological system. Its objective is to create digital city infrastructures in which multiple layers of information become integral part of architecture, creating novel forms of citizenship and defining recombinant, re-programmable public spaces.…