Monday 19 March 2012

New Direction for Christchurch


Dushko and Matthew write in the Herald about the opportunity the tragic consequence of  the Christchurch Earthquake can providing for the development of a new kind of urbanism.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10793129

The everyday collective laboratory


 Philosophical position.
To govern a society shared by people of emotion, people of reason, and everybody in between — as well as people who think their actions are shaped by logic but in fact are shaped by feelings and non-empirical philosophies — you need politics. At its best, politics navigates all the minds-states for the sake of the greater good, alert to the rocky shoals of community, identity, and the economy. At its worst, politics thrives on the incomplete disclosure or misrepresentation of data required by an electorate to make informed decisions, whether arrived at logically or emotionally.”

Neil de Grasse Tyson.

The everyday collective laboratory is a methodology of intuition and artistic enquiry that addresses these concerns as they relate to place, belonging and landscape. It does so by assisting aspects of society to communicate through map making, and the capturing and dissemination of subtle data from a diversity of mind states.

Paul Woodruffe

Sunday 11 March 2012

Auckland Edges


Watch a panel of the great and good, David Clelland, Manager Spatial and Infrastructure Strategy, Auckland Council, Rachel de Lambert, Design Director  Boffa Miskell, Connal Townsend Chief Executive Property Council, Bob Dey Property Guru, Dr Dushko Bogunovitch Assoc Professor Urban Design UIT , and Brady Nixon, Property Manager Countdown, discuss the future shape of Auckland 


Saturday 10 March 2012

'Neighbourhood Air'







http://www.neighbourhoodair.co.nz/


Neighbourhood Air (2012) is an interactive, online artwork that gathers live pollutant levels from Auckland city air. The collaborative project includes urban meteorologists, programmers, media artists, breathers of city air and weather as a continuous feedback mechanism. Sensor instruments in New Zealand provide a community platform for continuously accessible,real-time information. This new work was shown at Screen Space in February/March 2012 (Melbourne) before it travels to New Mexico as part of 'Machine Wilderness' ISEA Electronic Arts Symposium in September 2012.


collaborators:

Janine Randerson (media artist and lead investigator)
Jason Johnston (audio composition)
Jeff Nusz (interface programming)
Chris Manford (Computer Science, Unitec: sensor data programming)
Greer Laing , Geoff Henshaw and John Wagner (instrument scientists from Aeroqual, NZ)
Dr Jennifer Salmond (Urban Meteorologist, University of Auckland)