Ned spends most of his time wondering how our world can better support the lives within it. Musings fit for print end up here. He hopes you enjoy them.
Honey Bee, an experimental video by artist Allison Hunter, explores the fascinating nature, fragility, and study of the Western honey bee using a combination of live and computer-constructed 3D footage. Hunter is known for photography and video that make people think about how they perceive and respond to elements of the world...
...from Seth Barnard, an architecture student at the Cooper Union. Seth's project, as he states, asks the simple question "What if we introduced [or re-introduced] zoological/ entomological/ botanical specimens into our everyday lives?" And we totally agree with you Seth. What if? What if we had a greater awareness of the animals already around us...
An interesting project came to our attention via Bustler recently and is certainly worth checking out. The project is titled Engineered Biotopes and was developed by London-based teammates Anthi Grapsa and Konstantinos Chalaris.
The "Beevarian Antsel and Gretel Chalet" designed and constructed by the organisation ‘German Women in Property’ was selected from the shortlisted group of five entries...
...the glass-like fragility of this artificial forest, built of an intricate lattice of small transparent acrylic tiles, is visually breathtaking. Its frond extremities arch uncannily towards those who venture into its midst, reaching out to stroke and be stroked like the feather or fur or hair of some mysterious animal....
[Fundacion Telefonica Jury, 1st
prize, VIDA 11.0]
"Ecological Urbanism considers the city with multiple instruments and with a worldview that is fluid in scale and disciplinary focus...The book brings together practitioners, theorists, economists, engineers, artists, policymakers, scientists, and public health."
Where do the Gulf Coast Oysters fit into the BP Oil tragedy? Are they victims or saviors? Could they possibly hold the key to a massive gulf-coast clean up?
...we can speculate about various readings of the kind of alien logic of geometry, math, and by extension mankind in the face of nature, or the apparent illumination (divine / cerebral illumination) of the natural by the geometric or we can muse about what the donkey might be thinking in the presence of an object that presumably it cannot possibly fathom...
Welcome Alex! Alex will be traveling the world for the next few months and then take up his preceptorship in NYC with the notable firm of DS+R. During his travels he'll stop in here to say a few words. We think you'll be a great addition to the Animal Architecture team.
For those of you who know TED and TEDx this is definitely a cause for excitement. For those of you new to the whole TED-thing we highly recommend checking it out.
Natalie produces engineered systems that invite participation, document change over time, and suggest alternative courses of action that are ethical and sustainable.
OTTAWA (AFP) – A Canadian ecologist has discovered the world's largest beaver dam in a remote area of northern Alberta, an animal-made structure so large it is visible from space.