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cityofsound
www.cityofsound.com/blog
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Keywords: cities, architecture, design, engineering, information and media. Particular reference points around cities and places, interactive architecture, urban planning, engineering, adaptive design, interaction design and information design, the changing experience around media.
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Sketchbook: drawing The Shards parking

A very short little note about a diagram we made yesterday. The fuller story is over at Helsinki Design Lab, which notes how my interest in The Shard tower in London was piqued by Bryan tweeting abou...

24 may 12

Journal: Ravintolapäivä, Restaurant Day, edible urbanism and civic opportunism

This screen grab of an iPhone app is interesting for a number of reasons. One reason is seemingly mundane, and concerns the procurement of such things, yet could unlock possibilities nonetheless. The...

20 may 12

Journal: A walk in Schöneberg, Berlin: energy policy, gentrification, protest, and the humble joys ...

I didnt think that a humble flower bed could have quite this effect. The verges - for they numerous, every few metres - turned out to be the key feature of the streets of Shöneberg, Berlin, where I w...

07 may 12

Essays: Interfaces for the unlimited dream of flying

Flying from Singapore to Helsinki. We’re flying over an apparently endless landscape of dark forests and snow-covered hills, presumably Russia, rendered indigo in the velvety pre-dawn light. Settleme...

14 apr 12

Journal: Bullitt, Drive and walking the LA River

I’m in a hotel room in Adelaide watching Bullitt on Fox Classics. I flipped channel to find myself right at the start of the famous car chase scene. I must have seen this scene around 50 times....

14 apr 12

Essays: Introducing SuperNormal

A quick word about a new series I’m curating for Domus, the Italian art, architecture and design magazine. Called SuperNormal, it’s an attempt to ‘sketch’ a different kind of technology journalism, r...

11 mar 12

Journal: Alppila at Salmisaari, black soots in Ruoholahti

I swear I can still taste the coal dust in my mouth, nine hours later. Marco had noticed the soot in the snow first. Looking down from our vantage point on the 14th floor of our tower in Ruoholahti, ...

07 feb 12

Journal: Tetsuo Kondo’s suspended ramp, Tallinn

In Tallinn recently for a conference, I took a chance to go for a long walk from the old medieval city centre to an ancient forest to the east. I took a meandering route to Kadriorg Forest, along the...

08 jan 12

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Fumio Tachibana [GraphicHug] "Fumio Tachibana is a former Tokyo TDC winner who wonderfully crafts typographic beauty from scraps, scraps, scraps." [I have a couple of notebooks designed by Ta...

05 jan 12

Journal: Of brains and cities; neuroscience and cultures of decision-making

From Emergence, by Steven Johnson A couple of weeks ago I was invited to take part in an event called the “North House Salon” (see previous entry: Passport Control to Pimlico). These salons are...

21 dec 11

Journal: Passport Control to Pimlico

1500 Around John Islip Street, Pimlico, London, 30 November 2011. Notes written on Finnair. I arrived in London on the day of the national general strike, the scale of which no-one could seem to agre...

02 dec 11

Journal: Darlinghurst morning

0830 14 November 2011, Kirketon Hotel, Darlinghurst Road, Sydney / 0930 Kings Cross & Darlinghurst / 1130 Kirketon Hotel Kings Cross and Darlinghurst is the most Sydney bit of Sydney, perhaps. Th...

14 nov 11

Essay: Happy Feelings at the Awakening of Finnish Spring*, Summer, Autumn / Helsinki, Spirit Level ...

("Happy feelings at the awakening of Finnish Spring" being one of the alternative titles cheekily used by performers of Sibelius Finlandia in its early performances, in order to escap...

28 sep 11

Journal: Festa 2010, Turin

Italy should be the best country in the world, it really should. It has abundant riches in terms of culture, history, food, weather, urbanism, architecture, industry, craft, design, literature, footb...

16 sep 11

Journal: In Studio: Recipes for Systemic Change book, and Helsinki Design Lab

In short: Our team, the Strategic Design Unit at Sitra, has just published a new book, In Studio: Recipes for Strategic Design, written by my three colleagues. More here, context below. But now ... “...

15 sep 11

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Slanted - Typo Weblog & Magazin - Das Gefühl Typografie "Slanted #15 – Experimental deals with experimental design strategies in typography and graphic design. This issue presents proje...

12 sep 11

Sketchbook: Melbourne Smart City, for City of Melbourne/C40 Cities (incl. a note on why its easier ...

About a year ago, I helped design and run a workshop for the City of Melbourne, as part of Arup’s agreement to run a series of workshops for the C40 ‘climate leadership group’ of cities (the C4...

26 aug 11

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If we cant buy JG Ballards former home, then we should at least erect a statue to him | Books | The Guardian "It's strange that this strangest of writers should have been so devoted to so o...

19 jul 11

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Where the F**k Was I? (A Book) | booktwo.org "I say “based on” because the data was not recorded by me, but by my phone. In April, researchers Alasdair Allen and Pete Warden revealed that the iP...

16 jul 11

On retail

A few months ago I wrote a piece on retail for Architectural Review Australia, now published in the June 2011 issue as Local Rules: The Death (and Rebirth) of Retail. As is becoming common practice h...

06 jun 11

Sitra, and moving to Helsinki

I’m writing this from the 14th floor of a Helsinki office building, looking out onto a perfect blue harbour hemmed in by pine forests and dotted with tiny islands, and over the vast power station of ...

11 may 11

Same Old New World Cities; or, the missing vision for Australian cities; or, asking the right quest...

The Australian Commonwealth governments Major Cities Unit recently released a National Urban Policy discussion paper. I was part of Arups formal response, but I was also asked to write an indiv...

20 apr 11

Stadsmuziek, by Akko Golenbeld

Difficult to resist giving this one a quick nod, given the subject. A physical model of Eindhoven rolled onto a drum and attached to a piano. A form of player piano with the city as the score. [By Ak...

19 apr 11

More than "a mere building": Kwinter on Beaubourg

After that entry on Steven Holls Linked Hybrid in Beijing—and thanks for the feedback—I happened to be by chance reading Sanford Kwinters Requiem for the City at the End of the Millennium (Acta...

17 apr 11

Linked Hybrid by Steven Holl Architects, and designing for the occupation of space in contemporary ...

(Continuing to empty out my old Beijing notebook from 2009.) Beijing was such a whirl that I didn’t even get to see much of the city’s archetypal and much-discussed urban form: the hutong. (Read Sork...

11 apr 11

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The last yarn of Bradford mill [The Guardian] "Workers once came from all over the world to work in Lumb Lane. Now the defunct Bradford mill is being used to stage their stories"

29 mar 11

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Liine "Liine, the company behind Griid is a group of people passionate about music and technology. Our long-term goal is to redefine the way people interact with sound. Liine is a collaborative ...

28 mar 11

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James Stirling: visionary architect, and a very naughty boy [The Observer] "The Staatsgalerie wouldn't work without the pushing and pulling of ideas you can see in the drawings. It is worke...

21 mar 11

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Get-well wishes to Argentinas El Flaco whose football moved the world [guardian.co.uk] "I maintain that a team is above all an idea," he said, "and more than an idea it is a commitment...

17 mar 11

Three taxis: Sydney, Hong Kong (arrival), Wellington

See alsoThree taxis: Melbourne, Beijing, MilanThree taxis: Shanghai, Helsinki, Turin

12 mar 11

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