We’re living in a stylistic tropics. There’s a whole generation of people able to access almost anything from almost anywhere, and they don’t have the same localised stylistic sense that my generation grew up with. It’s all alive, all “now,” in an ever-expanding present, be it Hildegard of Bingen or a Bollywood soundtrack. The idea that something... - http://nomada.tumblr.com/post...
… the most inspirational statement I have read in questioning my role as an architect, the skills we are trained to enact as professional designers. This inspirational quote came from the least expected place: the first report to the US congress by General Petraeus, the chief US general in charge, in those days, of the war strategy in Irak. In... - http://nomada.tumblr.com/post...
The Territory is the Map – Space in the Age of Digital Navigation (Valérie November, Eduardo Camacho & Bruno Latour) (pdf) - http://www.bruno-latour.fr/article...
Social Computing goes mainstream: 41% of EU Internet users connected to Web 2.0 - The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies - http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/newsand...
P2P Foundation » Free Software and Free Culture in Brazil The 20 minute video bellow is a passionate speech given by Brazilian President Lula da Silva about the importance of Free Software and the Internet at the 10th Free Softaware Internacional Forum, in Porto Alegre, Brazil - June 26th, 2009. “The free software somehow is this, I say, it is... - http://nomada.tumblr.com/post...
How to Conserve Art That Lives in a Lake? - The New York Times In 1972, a year before his death in a plane crash at 35, the artist Robert Smithson wrote, “I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day.” And with the creation of his greatest work — “Spiral Jetty,” the huge counterclockwise... - http://nomada.tumblr.com/post...
Today, people with power and influence derive their power from their centrality within self-organizing networks that might or might not correspond to any plan on the part of designated leaders. Organization structure in vanguard companies involves multi-directional responsibilities, with an increasing emphasis on horizontal relationships rather... - http://nomada.tumblr.com/post...
Eco.acequia. 3er Premio. Concurso para la ladera del Vinalopó en Elche. Nuestro proyecto, Eco.acequia, ha recibido el tercer premio del concurso para la remodelación de la ladera del Vinalopó en Elche. La idea principal del proyecto consiste en recuperar la relación que siempre había tenido Elche con el agua del río y las acequías que riegan los... - http://nomada.tumblr.com/post...