Posted in Blogroll, architecture, blogs, built environment, tagged blogging, blogs, justpractising on January 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Great to see new blogs being created that address issues relating to the built environment and web 2.0 ’stuff’
Fellow twitter Su Butcher has joined the blogosphere with justpractising:
So here it is. A blog about architects.
There are three things I want to do with this blog, things I have been doing elsewhere on the internet for [...]
Posted in architecture, built environment, collaborative working, community based fm, design, knowledge, sustainability, tagged Architecture for Humanity, building codes on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Received the following from Architecture for Humanity …. a great opportunity to share knowledge and skills collaboratively on line for the greater good.
We love to build. Therefore we are obsessed with global and local building codes. A few years ago, 1760 BC to be exact, the Code of Hammurabi was the first set of [...]
Posted in architecture, futures, housing, links, open source, technology, web2.0, tagged be2camp, usability, Zuiprezi on August 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Following recent communication with Adam Somlai-Fischer at Zuiprezi, who I hope can get to talk at the be2camp event in October, I took a look at the Reconfigurable House, a concept environment developed by Adam constructed from thousands of low tech components that can be “rewired” by visitors.
So far so good, but reconfigurations can [...]
Posted in News, architecture, collaborative working, futures, innovation, open source, second life, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged wikiteecture on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A web2 collaborative project I have been following through second life and wiki architecture has been the open source architecture design competition via Open Architecture Network.
Delighted then to receive the following good news alert from Ryan at Wikitecture:
Wikitecture Wins International Competition: 3D-Wiki Used to Compose an Open-Source Entry
Chicago, IL, June 09, 2008 – [...]
Posted in News, architecture, built environment, comment, design, greenwash, sustainability, tagged CABE on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Guardian reported on Saturday on the CABE criticism of architects and developers who are, according to CABE ignoring the threat of climate change and failing to address concerns over sustainability, (Based on design reviews of more than 700 large construction projects over the last two years that concluded that fewer than 10 made sustainability [...]
Posted in architecture, comment, design, ecological, green buildings, innovation, second life, virtual worlds, tagged eco, eco city, International Eco Code Park, usabilty, zero on April 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A search over a coffee, starting from Pam’s link (here) led me to zeroHouse.
Now this may be hitting a lot of boxes on the zero list, may be an architects vision or dream, but to call eco (as in ‘eco’ =’home’) and a place to live?
Does this primary school Lego construction have a soul – [...]
Posted in 1:5:200, architecture, built environment, comment, community based fm, design, events, facilities management, green buildings, housing, links, second life, sustainability, virtual worlds, tagged Center for Facilities Management, Eco City 2008, Greenbuild 08, Think 08, usability, West Coast Green on April 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It seems we are becoming awash with green buildings, eco homes and eco towns.
There are some great sites out there with green architecture eye candy (check out Mad Architecture for example).
We have some major and significant conferences and events on the horizon – from the international Eco City 2008, Green Build 2008 and West Coast [...]
Posted in architecture, events, links, sustainability, tagged eco city, eco villages, eco-towns on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Eco City 2008 blog continues to profile Eco City projects and urban architects and other leading thinkers in its build up to the Eco City World Summit conference at the end of the month. The posts, links and articles make fine background reading to urban futures and the whole concept of eco, whether its [...]
Posted in architecture, design, green buildings, housing, sustainability, tagged eco village, Lammas, low impact living on March 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
From the eco cities of the world to plans for a low impact eco-village in Wales.
Lammas, in its bid to get planning permission has put together a comprehensive and absorbing website. Well worth checking out.
from the Lammas website:
The Houses
Low-impact architecture uses a combination of recycled and natural materials. The project is essentially a self-build affair. [...]
where is the service user innovation …
Posted in architecture, benchmarkwalks, built environment, comment, community based fm, facilities management, innovation, second life, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged barcamp, service excellence, SCRI, post occupancy evaluations, Dunbar's number, biophilia on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I attended the SCRI event on Service User Innovation in Salford Uni’s new Lady Hale Building yesterday, listened to four influential speakers and participated in thoughtful discussions and break outs.
POE (post occupancy evaluations) were mentioned too often – I have an issue with POE as a means to evaluate performance, and as they have been [...]
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