Rainwater Harvesting Proposal

This posting is originally found from Pruned. For Parque del Lago idea competition, architectural firm, Paisajes Emergentes proposes open amphitheater as a rainwater collection system. As the water level rises, the amphitheater turns into a water pool, and as the water dries up, the amphitheater reveals. Simple and compelling...

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The fuel tank of future

This article talks about the new innovation to store hydrogen in the material - mainly carbon nano tubes and graphne - The fascinating part of this article for me is the generative structures formed from carbon nano tubes - wondering if the form has to do with the capacity to hold hydrogen inside of the material, which has to be 6% of all.

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Media Lab creates Center for Future Storytelling

David Kirkpatrick (left), Chairman of Plymouth Rock Studios, Cynthia Breazeal, co-director of Media Lab's Center for Future Storytelling, and Frank Moss, director of the MIT Media Lab, with Nexi, a mobile, dexterous social robot developed by Breazeal's Personal Robots research group. Photo / Sam Ogden


"Storytelling is at the very root of what makes us uniquely human," said Frank Moss, Media Lab director and holder of the Jerome Wiesner Professorship of Media Arts and Sciences. "It is how we share our experiences, learn from our past, and imagine our future. But how we tell our stories depends on another uniquely human characteristic -- our ability to invent and harness technology. From the printing press to the Internet, technology has given people new ways to tell their stories, allowing them to reach new levels of creativity and personal fulfillment. The shared vision of the MIT Media Lab and Plymouth Rock Studios allows us to take the next quantum leap in storytelling, empowering ordinary people to connect in extraordinary ways."

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Movable Sclupture + Projection = perceptual experience

Guerrila gardner from london

London's guerrilla gardener and author Richard Reynolds proposes the hands on grassroot movement to change the ecology of the urban area.

Originally from http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/04/minidocumentary-of-l.html