🔘 Arch 🔵 FS
The technology and policies are falling into place. But we’ll need a revolution in U.S. home retrofit business models and financing to scale up enough to meet the climate challenge.
Read moreRevolutionizing WebXR Development with the Immersive Web Emulator
🟣 SC
WebXR is expanding the many ways in which we interact with the web, allowing developers to create engaging experiences that can be accessed on a wide range of devices—from a fully immersive experience on Meta Quest VR headsets to a traditional browser experience on smartphones and tablets.
Read moreThe incredible FLOATING city
🔵 FS 🔘 Arch
A joint Anglo-Italian architectural project has produced a 'floating city' concept - a collective of orb-like houses that would supposedly house up to 50,000 people in the event global warming leads to mass flooding. The concept was hatched by an international team of architects and designers led by Italian firm Luca Curci Architects and UK-based Tim Fu Design, who came together to design a eco-friendly village that adapts to future climate demands.
Read moreThe Teenager Leading the Smartphone Liberation Movement
🟤 PP
For the 17-year-old Logan Lane, the solution was to quit cold turkey. Lane grew up in Brooklyn and was a screen-addicted teenager who spent hours curating her social media presence on Instagram and TikTok. Then, a little over two years ago, Lane started questioning whether living a life of constant connection was actually a good thing and made the decision to ditch her smartphone altogether. She began assembling a “Luddite Club” — a group of teenagers who reject technology and its creeping hold on all our lives.
Read moreWe've Lost the Plot
🌀 DTech
Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.
Read moreWill the Metaverse Be Entertaining? Ask South Korea.
🟣 SC
Everyone onscreen was real, sort of. The singers had human counterparts in the studio, isolated in cubicles, with headsets on their faces and joysticks in both hands. Immersed in a virtual world, they were competing to become part of (hopefully) the next big Korean girl band.
Read moreMetaverse is where it’s all happening on the Japan job front
🟣 SC: Spatial Computing 🌀 DTech: Digital Technologies
The days of Japanese college students turning up at job fairs in staid dark business suits may be swiftly coming to an end. Welcome to the metaverse, where students armed only with a smartphone can peruse job offers and engage in online interviews from wherever they are in Japan, or even beyond.
Read moreThe computer screen is the retina of the mind’s eye
🌀 DTech: Digital Technologies 🔴 HCI: Human-Computer Interface 🟤 PP: Postphenomenology(Phenomenology)
I want to gauge the impact of computers on the world, the potency of computers as a filter on our society, and explore the fact that the computer screen is the retina of the mind’s eye. This will, I hope, lead the reader to agree with me that computers are necessary for our survival, but also that for us to survive, computers must be significantly absent from our lives.
Read moreA Lively Interview With A Bot on the Nature and Future of Architecture
🔵 FS: Future Studies 🔘 Arch: Architecture
I thought about ChatGBT’s use in writing about architecture. Would it encourage more trite, languid, anodyne articles about design published online and in print? I’ll let you decide. Here’s an edited transcript of my 15-minute interview with the bot.
Read moreChengdu builds science-fiction museum designed by ZHA
🔘 Arch: Architecture 🟡 Sci-fi: Science Fiction 🔵 FS: Future Studies
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has unveiled its futuristic design for a science fiction museum now being built in Chengdu, China, conceived by the architect as an asymmetrical star that floats on a lake.
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