Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #130

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About the broader context of data about cities, models of cities, and understanding and visualising cities.

2038 is an international team of architects, artists, ecologists, economists, scientists, politicians and writers, initiated in 2019, aiming to tell a (hi)story that today we call future > très spéciale ;-)

The following manifesto is a thought experiment for the next billion seconds, and an introduction to ‘The Weirdness of Interdependencies’, the research theme for the upcoming edition of IAM Weekend (March 19–21, 2020. Barcelona) that will focus on how organisation and citizens can address the weird implications of the design, mythologies and usages of the internet(s) and digital technologies in the environmental emergency

Venkatesh Rao freewheeling on narrative as a road in time, and stories as particular journeys taken along that road

Science fiction visions, especially as presented in movies and television shows, have infected our approach to UX and product design. They have nudged us to mistake visualizations that were created…

This is the second in a series of articles published from the new podcast Leading from Being, with hosts Marti Spiegelman and Todd Hoskins. You can listen to the podcasts and find out more about our programs at Leading from Being.

Humans are increasingly displaced and distance-enabled. Without a sense of connection, knowledge, and commitment to geographically-bound places over longer periods of time, we design out of context…

Data and Society

But here's a simple thing we all can do to make the internet slightly less terrible.

A fringe movement of privacy advocates are experimenting with clothes, makeup and accessories as a defense against some surveillance technologies. Some wearers desire to opt-out of “surveillance capitalism,” while others...

Worried about the data collected about you? A new generation of startups is making apps to put your privacy settings straight

Zeitgeist

Tracking people to tell them whether they’ve been in close contact with a virus carrier might cause a whole new series of complicated issues.

Innovation

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Future of work

(Ed. I’m one of the Mayor of London’s Design Advocates, a group of 50 designers and architects picked to advise the Greater London Authority as part of the Mayor’s Good Growth by Design strategy. I…

Internet Culture

The film gathers a series of thoughts on the future of information, communication and the future of our relationship with the internet. Shot in Barcelona dur...

Digital Ethics

It’s suspiciously convenient that Facebook already fulfills most of the regulatory requirements it’s asking governments to lay on the rest of the tech industry. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Brussels lobbying the European Union’s regulators as they form new laws to govern artificial intelligence, content moderation and more. But if they follow Facebook’s suggestions, […]

The EU’s digital and competition chief has said that automated facial recognition breaches GDPR as it doesn't gain consent

Masks/Defence/Hiding

China's leading search engine Baidu has open-sourced an AI model to indentify people not wearing face masks.

Designer Max Siedentopf has created images showing alternative coronavirus masks, which he calls How-To Survive A Deadly Global Virus.

Microphones and cameras lurk everywhere. You may want to slip on some privacy armor.

Better-sounding music, smart home control, insights into your commute, whisper mode, and more.

Post Capitalism

Omidyar Network shares its point of view on creating a fair and competitive technology ecosystem by restricting big tech power This month, Facebook and Google’s YouTube turn 16 and 15 years old…

In the last 30 years we have been transmuted from pilgrims and patients and students to become, as our primary identification, consumers and clients

Weird (Cyber)Space

Friends from Academy

Self promotion department at the Academy for Visual Arts in Ghent. A blending of footage of the Keith Haring exhibit in Brussels, and storm Ciara at the Belgian coast (De Haan), tiles from the promenade. And some weird reverse sound effects...

Aesthetics

SCI-Arc’s EDGE Postgraduate Programs Chair David Ruy introduces the MS Synthetic Landscapes postgraduate program at SCI-Arc. The Master of Science in Synthet...

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Music/Sound

Techno-punk legend Andrew Weatherall plays his favourites past and present; ranging from contemporary indie bands to the pounding 909s of early acid house.

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