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the filmmakers have captured an out-of-this-world aerial footage of a reindeer cyclone, where a threatened herd of animals runs in circles around the hunters as a formidable defense strategy.
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the collaborative defines their mission as researching, building, and advocating for architecture that promotes justice and human dignity.
the artist has been documenting the festival since 2014, capturing the unexpected driving artwork, as well as the passionate creators.
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the exhibition brings together a diverse array of tools, such as planes, chisels and saws, that have played an important role in the development of japanese architecture.
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You’re right Eduardo, as well as Stupid Ideas.
Nathaniel is missing the point, greatly. It is important to make a difference between what a designer thinks of, and how the device eventually is used. A cord that emits glowing blue light will be regarded as pretty and nice, and not alarming and something you want to prevent. It is rather stimulating energy use than limiting. Quite obvious.
It’s a shame that so many people here and on other blogs react so positively on designs and concepts that try to make people aware of their consumption, and those that try to be more harmonious with nature, while in most cases they totally fail to do so. As long as it is ‘a nice idea’ or ‘a cool design’, you all trip over each other to hail the design and designer. I thought we had already passed the ‘as long as the design is pretty and cool, I’m satisfied’ phase… 🙁
We think that Europeans are more sustainable than we are, and maybe they are, but not by much. How much embedded energy is there in each of these devices? How do they liberate us from the same technology that sinks us? How much do they contribute to our humanity? Especially if they continue to separate us from nature.
They create needs where there are none just so that someone can make money on us.
good post,I think so!
The blinds are cool – very imaginative.
RE: Stupid ideas I don’t think these are just pretty pictures. Clearly alot of time has been invested for the designers to figure just how they can illustrate and make people aware of the amount of energy they actually use for certain products.
Awesome! I especially like the clock.
I disagree, these are a great range of ideas that illustrate how we can become aware of all the energy we use. Normally we take energy for granted but if it shows it some how in a product, I think it will change our habits.
Have I missed something? A cord that creates light to show you how much energy your using – that uses more energy..?
How is that a good idea – opposed to a device you can plug in, giving you a real number you can actually use to budget your energy usage? Stupid idea.
The rest of the ideas are again form over function, I mean a lamp with wet clothes hanging on it? BANG!
The only actually interesting idea here is the clock showing energy usage – although the icons on the wall are a little misleading – is it the type of device or the time the energy is being used it’s actually showing? But, again, there are is no real information produced on energy usage, just pretty pictures..