Digital Human BBC Radio 4
Quick post on the BBC Radio 4 Digital Human programme produced by Peter McManus and presented by Aleks Krotoski. I was invited to talk about the old Shelflife / Remember Me / Tales of Things project for Oxfam in the context of value: “When almost anything we want is available to buy at the click of […]
Digital Sentinel funded by Carnegie UK Trust ‘Neighbourhood News’
Great to see that the work funded through the AHRC Connected Communities project Community Hacking has attracted more funding to develop the third phase – community journalism. This press release was written by Whale Arts: “An emerging community news agency in Wester Hailes is to receive £10k of funding after winning a competition to help local […]
Flow
Just some notes to self about representing flow over maps for the AHRC Connected Community project ‘The Memories of Mr Seel’s Garden‘. The project is a collaboration between Transition Liverpool, Friends of Everton Park and the Friends of Sudley Estate, as well as academics from Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The main aim of the […]
I Am A Monument
I AM A MONUMENT by Aron Vinegar. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. 209 pp., illlus. Trade $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-22082-8 Reviewed by [Chris Speed for Leonardo Reviews] Original review found here: http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/april2009/speed_monument.html Vinegar’s book revisits ‘Learning from Las Vegas’ (LFLV), one of the most influential and contentious architectural books of the twentieth century. Written by architects Robert […]
Migratory Settings Book
Review by me for Leonardo Reviews interesting book – slow to get through, but worth it. Migratory Settings, Part of the Thamyris Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race Series Edited by Murat Aydemir and Alex Rotas Published by Rodopi, Amsterdam/NewYork, 2008. 276 pp., illus. Trade, $85. ISBN: 978-90-420-2425-0 Reviewed by [Chris Speed. School of Architecture, Edinburgh […]
