“One man’s incredible hobby is another man’s vision of the future. Since June of 2005, farmer Joe Murray has been excavating a basement in his home in Saskatchewan Canada using only radio controlled vehicles.” Link
Emily Badgers, from The Atlantic, talks about 5 planning moves that could have prevented or at least mitigated some aspects of flooding in New York. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2012/10/5-ideas-could-have-prevented-flooding-new-york/3754/
Daniel Piker has a few interesting experiments in Grasshopper that deal with self-organization of geometries and forms. One in particular is his sketch of surface tension. Link to his blog post
Project Description in Spatial Information Design Lab The Million Dollar Blocks is a Data Spatialization/Visualization project that reveals potentials for neighborhood investment strategies by showing relationships between neighborhoods and their being possible origin for high incarceration rates. ” The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities […]
MACHINE VII is a collaboration of ATWOOD-A with Alex Robinson. MACHINE VII is a sand deposition, extraction and manipulation machine. It makes renewable piles of sand.