Eppo van Nispen has created the most modern library in the World, and it is located in Delft (Netherlands). His presentation at TEDx Rotterdam surprised everyone because of his energy, sense of humor and message: it’s about the stories, not the medium.
Igor Nikolic (@coolcomplexity) works at Delft University of Technology as a researcher. His field of research are socio-technical systems and their evolution. In a sense, Igor is studying how everything connects to everything else. The animation showing the evolution of his wiki at TUDelft is a must see.
Sustainable Dance Floor goes XXL
Sustainable Dance Floor XL from SDC on Vimeo.
Sustainable Dance Club, the award wining sustainable business idea from Enviu, has released a video envisioning an extra-large Sustainable Dance Floor.
“One of Sustainable Dance Club’s goals for the future is having the floor featured in a big international event. Could there be a better way to open the Olympics or World Cup with the energy of dancing people? That’s why we asked our friends from Waanzee to make an animation of this idea. A new movie shows the Sustainable Dance Floor in stadium size! This movie visualises how the energy of one dancer is shared with a large group of dancers and how this sharing of energy can lead to a fantastic energetic climax.”
See a review of Club Watt, the first-ever sustainable dance club.
Lotus 7.0 by Studio Roosegaarde (sneak peek)
Lotus 7.0, one of the latest pieces of Studio Roosegaarde: “an interactive organic wall covered by hundreds of smart foils unfolding, in a poetinc morphing of space and people”
What is Design? A lecture by Bill Moggridge
Bill Moggridge, the director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum breaks it open in this lecture at the Smithsonian Design Institute
We are the Medium
“The first rule of The New Order is tell the truth. Because if you lie, you die” says Richard Seymour, cofounder and director of London-based Seymourpowell, one of the world’s top design and innovation firms.” If the blacksmith is lousy in the village, we all know it. But the difference is now that the village is the whole world. And we are the medium. We, humanity, are the medium.”
The New Order is the fourth episode of Into the Future video series:
Also on Eastman Innovation Lab Insights you can find videos from some of my Sustainable Innovation colleagues Martin Charter on Building Bridges, JohnPaul Kusz on the Power of Stories, and Gary Owen on Lessons from the Desert.
Enviu is currently busy with a new Wow! Idea: Our Mobile Generation. The video presents the 5 challenges that anyone can join to make the telco industry a greener one. Have an idea? Join the Our Mobile Generation Challenge.
Where do good ideas come from? How to create conditions for those “a-ha” moments?
This video promotes the book ‘Where Do Good Ideas Come From?’ by Steven Johnson and well captures the main message of the book.
UPDATE: read the conversation between Steven Johnson and Kevin Kelly on Wired on the subject
Via Lottahassi.com
Influencers, the movie
INFLUENCERS, How Trends & Creativity Become Contagious is a new short film that looks at some of the people and culture that help gestate, spread and popularize new ideas.
The film is a Polaroid snapshot of New York influential creatives (advertising, design, fashion).
Via PSKF
Sustainable Design Video Workshop
Autodesk just launched a website offering free and well produced videos about principles of sustainable product design. Aside of the introductory video, at the Sustainability Workshop, you can find now two more videos covering:
- Whole System Design (& Lifecycle Thinking)
- Lightweight and Material Reduction
Moreover, each episode is complemented with useful resources and the script for each video, which can be downloaded in PDF format.
Hopefully Autodesk will grow this great collection. I applaud their initiative and professionalism, we need more material like this one.
Via Core77
Ken Robinson on Changing Education Paradigms
Another inspiring RSA Animate taken from a speech given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education expert and recipient of the RSA Benjamin Franklin award.
In case you didn’t see Sir Ken Robinson in action before, you shouldn’t miss his classic TED Talk about how schools kill creativity.
ReMade: The Rebirth of the Maker Movement
ReMade: The Rebirth of the Maker Movement (1st Trailer) from Electromagnate on Vimeo.
ReMade is a documentary focused on telling the story of makers and hackerspaces within the DIY movement and the personal journey of members of what are known as hackerspaces: workshop collectives that allow its members to pursue any projects of they desire.
Visit Kickstarter and help Electromagnate - the crew behind the project - to complete their pledge to finish this awesome film.
Mondrian TV & Web Docs
One of the references of online video in Spain is Balzac.tv, a project initiated by Hector Milla in 2007 based on a WebShow format, with interviews to an interesting character like an architect, or a scientist. Due to several reasons, Balzac.tv closed its doors this 2010, however the lessons learned there are the basis for a new project: Mondrian.tv.
If Balzac.tv was about WebShows, Mondrian.tv wants to explore a new format named WebDoc.
A new hybrid format based on video, audio, photo, maps, & text. A theme developed on the basis of an interactive script, where the user is the one defining the narrative story.
Mondrian.tv will start showing the potential of WebDocs next spring. On the meantime, you may want to listen to a radio interview to Hector (Catalan/Spanish)
Photo credit: Hector Milla
World’s Free Classroom
The Khan Academy is a good example of how technology and connectivity can empower individuals.
On the same line of OLPC, the Khan Academy mission is to provide world-class education to everyone, anywhere.
UPDATE: complementary article by Mashable - The Case for the Virtual Classroom
