In a valley at the foot of the Berkshire Mountains, a struggling industrial town is making an artistic comeback. North Adams is now home to MASS MoCA, one of the largest museums of contemporary art in the world â housed in 26 former factory buildings.
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/20/159357612/north-adams-mass-a-manufacturing-town-for-art
Tagged with art industrial urban planning
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http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page96990?oid=151902&sn=2010+Detail&pid=92730
Encouraging useful and usable designs for a better customer experience. /
Qantas has opened a new industrial relations battlefront. The Labor government’s Fair Work laws are being put to the test but there are bigger political implications for the Opposition, which is split over whether to re-embrace Workchoices, the IR policy that many believe brought an end to the Howard government.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2011/3353325.htm
Rethinking retail design In a time when so many shoppers are preferring to do it online, those businesses who want to continue to survive successfully on the main street or in the mall need to think innovatively to recreate a stimulating shopping environment. And we´re not just talking about the look of the shop but a total service package and brand identity that can win customer loyalty, ideally for a lifetime. Viennese Architecture - influence runs deep Many threads flow through and out of the architecture designed in Vienna at the dawn of the 20th century. One of them is the concept of one-stop shopping, expressed in our time through innovative shops like IKEA. Trends: putting fashion into the museum Listed in New York Daily News as one of Fashion´s 50 Most Powerful People, eminent fashion scholar Valerie Steele is the director and curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. Here, she talks about the relationship between the museum and fashion - it is a new trend. Listeners’ Letters Here is an audio clip of this week’s Listeners’ Letters. What do Industrial Designers do? The Australian Industry´s night of nights, the 2011 Australian International Design Awards Presentation Ceremony, was held in Melbourne on Friday 22 July 2011,
Transcript of a speech by Richard Seymour, Director of SeymourPowell, at the Designing Demand event.
Huffduffed from http://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942244/ikes-warning-of-military-expansion-50-years-later
Tagged with eisenhower military-industrial complex
http://longnow.org/seminars/02010/sep/21/twilight-bombs/
Pulitzer-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Dark Sun, and Arsenals of Folly completes his tetralogy on nuclear weapons with his new book, The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons.
A single weapon profoundly shaped world history for most of a century. Its disappearance can have equally profound effects
The London School of Economics and Political Science
LSE Cities film screening and public debate
Date: Wednesday 17 March 2010
Time: 5.30-7.30pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: G. Asenath Andrews, Stuart Gulliver, Bruce Katz, Richard Sennett
Chair: Roger Graef
Detroit was once America’s fourth largest city. Built by the car, with its groundbreaking suburbs, freeways and shopping centres, it was the embodiment of the American dream. With its intense race riots that brought the Army into the city, and violent union struggles against the fierce resistance of Henry Ford and the Big Three, it was also the scene of American ‘nightmares’.
In Requiem for Detroit (Dir. Julien Temple, 2010) we come face to face with a dystopic post-industrial city, in which 40% of the land in the centre is returning to prairie. This polemic documentary spans the course of the 20th century conveying the city’s transition from Motor City to beacon for the burgeoning urban agricultural movement.
G. Asenath Andrews is Principal of the Catherine Ferguson Academy for Young Women. Stuart Gulliver is Professor of City Development, University of Glasgow. Bruce Katz is Head of Municipal Metropolitan Policy Program and Vice-President, Brookings Institution. Richard Sennett is Professor of Sociology, LSE.
From: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2010/20100317t1700vSZT.aspx
58 MB; approx 128 minutes
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