eating

Marije Vogelzang

DLDcities London 2012

Carlo Ratti (MIT SENSEable City Lab) on Code of the City
Ricky Burdett (LSE) on The Urban Age and the Olympics
Ole Scheeren (Architect) on Building Asia
John Rossant (New Cities Foundation) "transition from century of nation states to century of the cities" on Cities as promise of the 21th Century
Muck Petzet (Architect) "don't build new, use what's there", Hila Oren (Tel Aviv Global City) "when you put on the light at night the violence goes away"+"the power of the creative class", John Reades (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Oyster Card 25:00) on Cities of the Future.

Kevin Slavin: Laughter from nowhere from iMMovator on Vimeo.

listening to words

http://www.thrillingwonderstories.co.uk/

colonia dignidad

what's going on behind the scenes

advice

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

handicraft+art+community work+awarness for the environment+science

just stay

most of what she says is old news. but the thoughts on "don't leave before you leave" are interesting.

food for thoughts about food

thank you, cindy, thank you, thank you, thank you

re:publica

talks i listened to or left at re:publica 10
jeff jarvis - the german paradox (interesting+entertaining, aber zu kurz gegriffen)
marc rene gardeya - augmented reality (waste of time, früher rausgegangen)
melissa gira grant - sex and internet (entertaining)
christian heller - identitätskriege (already forgotten, überflüssig)
martina godesa - die laptop klasse (interessant)
andre spang - die blog schule (interessant)
geocaching und lernen (früher rausgegangen)
bre pettis - maker bot (belanglos)
alexander endl, ronny schmelzer - kinder ans netz (belanglos, früher rausgegangen)
jens trapp - the bigger picture (interessant, workshop)
patrick singer - google werkzeuge (interessant, workshop)
kristian basler - vernetzte intimität (belanglos)
miriam meckel - this object cannot be liked (brilliant)

missed it, but want to check it online
peter kruse - what's next
peter sunde - flattr
karsten gerloff - die freiheit über den wolken
christian neff - die iphone klasse
julian assange, daniel schmitt - wikileaks
das andere geschlecht/sexismus im internet
anna wizorek - ich schreibe doch nur ins internet rein
teresa bücker - liebe ist für alle da / new story telling
johannes kleske, igor schwarzmann - playfull cities
privacy accross the atlantic

my educational method: "i don't know how you'll understand it. anyway i am going away"

For further information and videos, please visit UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning blog

Sugata Mitra's "hole in the wall"

....update 25.5.2011: the links above are dead. but not this one:

education

Ken Ronbinson again
(i guess my parents did something right. and so did lower six and art foundation course in britain.)

a feeling in time all over the place /notdone1

"Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling""
more by Jonathan Harris.

his project "the whale hunt" reminds me of "norman roman", an email-storytelling-group-project i started with friends back in 1999 and never properly executed.
the setup: 7 people would write each other emails the way we used to write letters: as kind of diary entry, glimpses on our lives, not so much in the form of communicating information like email usually is.
we could chose whether to take on a fake personality with an invented life or to be ourselves or to do a mix.
depending on who i would write to, i would use a different tone or perspective to describe the same event, highlighting different aspects or details of the event, depending on how close i am to that person, what that person's interest are, what kind of humor he or she has, what we have shared in life so far.
i was the only one in the group who knew everybody, the others knew between 2 and 5 other people in the group, we lived in different places, spoke english and/or german.
certain events would affect all of us, like new year's eve eg. some could affect just some of us, like sunny wheather or a plane accident. some of the events were fixed in advance, some would be made up as we went along - or actually happen. the line between fiction and reality would blur.
those different threads of communication would then be laid out in such a way that the reader could follow one person with all his/her conversations, one set of conversations (between just two people), one event and how each person wrote about it or a mix of all of this.
so we would be writing and reading at the same time, taking what the others just wrote as an inspiration for ones own writing and vica versa.
my friendes thought, this was all to confusing and time consuming, so we tried out a reduced version for a little while and then lost interest. the rocketmail account we used for it was later on closed without us realizing, so now it is lost forever.

todo: random-dinner-marathon

ps: i don't really know what google wave is, but it sounds similar to his universe thing.
thanks, nora, for pointing out the whale hunt

don't predict the future, shape it*

"She was six and she was at the back, drawing, and the teacher said this little girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing lesson she did. The teacher was fascinated and she went over to her and she said, "What are you drawing?" And the girl said, "I'm drawing a picture of God." And the teacher said, "But nobody knows what God looks like." And the girl said, "They will in a minute.""
Ken Robinson
*i used to think this was an old apple-slogan, but i cannot find any reference to it on the web.
thanks, phil

community work (part2)

the ted community is truly generous. you can now get translations in the form of subtitles in up to 23 languages per talk plus interactive transcripts in those languages, that will take you to the point in the video that you click on in the text. replacing esperanto by voluntary community work.
talking about talks: listening to words features talks from all over the place, themes and genres.
thanks david

community work

i often walked past this place but it took me a while to figure out what it is all about. it is what it says: a superhero supply store. and it also is a place for kids to write and do their homework. the man who initiated all this also does 826 valencia in san francisco (followed by eg 826la), wonderful dvd magazine wholphin, the believer, mcsweeney's and writes his own books. if i had stayed in ny, i would have applied as a tutor there.
thanks kevin, thanks sashka

"remember me"

"Act One. Thinking Inside the Box.David Wilcox tells the story of how his mother, who was dying of lung cancer, made a short videotape for his sister, who is severely developmentally disabled. She hoped the tape would become a daily part of her daughter's life, like the other music and movies she liked to play, that she would watch it and remember her mother. But she also knew her daughter might never even watch it. (9 minutes)"

it breaks your heart.

words vs action

good old zefrank, thinking so you don't have to