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Video
http://www.21stcenturychallenges.org/challenges/london-under-water/media-gallery/video/alex-nickson-greater-london-authority/
film coming out in summer: THE FLOOD
More dystopian ‘end of the world scenarios’.
http://www.flood-london.com/
Our future under water
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1363703/Our-future-water-How-devastating-floods-swamp-major-cities.html
VENICE TAKEAWAY
This is not a Gateway’s opinion on the British Council’s competition to become an ‘explorer’:
‘Ludicrous, a whitewash, hypocritical, shockingly unreflective, pretty questionable, very strange, a colonial hangover, neo-imperialist endorsement, incredibly retrograde, lacks self-criticality, certainly bizarre, a parody, out of touch – period, Anglo-centric, tone deaf,...
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Venice's public transport
Two types, vaporetti and motoscafi. And motonaves.
The word “vaporetto” is often used to mean any kind of ACTV water bus, but officially, the term refers to flat-decked, single-level vessels such as the boats on Line 1 (Grand Canal to Lido) and Line 2 (Grand Canal and Giudecca Canal).
These vaporetti are fully accessible by wheelchairs, strollers, baby buggies, and wheeled luggage, and...
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Overpopulation, socio-political abuse, climate change and natural disasters… We have become immune to serious issues - ignorant, disinterested and resistant towards the bombardment of problems.
In a world led by exponential growth- media, politics and science fiction drive our fears of the future. The outlook is always negative, the daily lives of people are overlooked. Instead of clinging to...
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Overpopulation, socio-political abuse, climate change and natural disasters… We have become immune to serious issues - resistant, disinterested and ignorant against this bombardment of problems.
Didn’t we say that life would end in 2012? In an exponential world our fears of the future are driven by media, politics and SCIFI. The outlook is always negative, the daily life of the people is...
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FUTURE FATIGUE
There are soooo many problems in the world – overpopulation, unfair contribution of world recourses, social and political unfairness, climate change, natural disasters, the list is endless… It is so long that we have become almost immune of any of those serious issues, we might call this “future fatigue” – becoming resistant, disinterested in serious issues. Fearing the unknown is only human, new...
My project is getting very dark...
About school
For all the moaners on our course: Something Cristiano Toraldo, a member of Superstudio, says about education: “I always believed that the school has one of the most important roles within society, that of forming a critical awareness capable of proposing alternatives to the cultural, social and economic system in which we live. Under formal education, creativity is often regelated to...
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“Design is meant to be understood, while art is meant to be interpreted.” Noah Scalin
RANT- SOCIAL MEDIA PROPAGANDA
I find the whole Joseph Cony affair very uncanny . It is shocking how a video with such heavy content spreads around so quickly. And suddenly everyone starts to like it on Facebook, including people I know - it’s like a wave, it really feels like propaganda. This video might be for a good reason, but seeing how people getting sucked in so easily is quite shocking to see. Does a video just need to...