Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds






www.ted.com With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT's Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets -- like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away -- to create surprising visualizations of city life. And he and his team create dazzling interactive environments from moving water and flying light, powered by simple gestures caught through sensors.
Video Rating: 4 / 5








Robert Venturi is the father of postmodern architecture and, along with his partner Denise Scott Brown, has changed how the world thinks about buildings. I got a chance to meet this 86 year old legend recently and found him to be brilliant, funny, and truly an inspiration. In this 22 minute short film (part 1 is about 14 minutes and part 2 is about 7 minutes), I hope to present to you one of the most important creative artists and visionaries Philadelphia has ever produced.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

31 comments:

  1. this video is really cool...fantastic too.. good work.. :)

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  2. This is so cool and amazing. Imbaha ani oie.

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  3. Agreed. I loved the idea of always sensing and then 'actuating'. But what came after was boring and stupid.

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  4. @Murakamizo You are so right, at the end of the talk I did not understand how is he going to fight climate change with this crap.TED has to check the quality of work.

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  5. wow, the animation of the dancer was so so woeful. I don't understand why some tech people like to show this disgusting low quality awkward body animations.
    The flying pixels are so marketing oriented, the cost is huge, a lot of energy wasted. why? they are showing 2D images with it, boring, 3D images are also boring. We don't need flying super expensive pixels, we need projects that could use sensible information about how to think and use energy on cities. Like the f1 but useful

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  6. Great talk, but what made me return was his jacket. Does anyone know where I can get it?

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  7. Future pollution of corporate visuals.

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  8. FLYING PIXEL !!!!

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  9. when italy cheated themselves to a world cup.

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  10. Anybody thinking about that Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode where Carl got his foot cut off by an advertisement?

    I'm kind of nervous lol jk.. but this is awesome.

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  11. Just wait till 4chan finds out about this...

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  12. this is genius! its the first step to holograms it's simply fantastic!

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    2. plz youtube polar2k trying to contact you..

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  13. where is the building? any pictures?

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  14. While the idea is there for a better world, the millitary still uses most ideas for a reason that doesn't help the masses....

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  15. @Rubatacchini if that happens just grab them when they get to close and smash them against the ground :P thats my plan x)

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  16. Awesome! I can't wait to see this somewhere!

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  17. @Rubatacchini advertisements paid for the TED conference at which this was displayed. advertisements also paid for this website you watched this video on.

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  18. how, those little helicopters, given some development, could lead to some awesome stage effects for gigs and events

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  19. lol trapcode form in after effects

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  20. @laojace u must be real happy about that... hahahaha

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  21. @JornikHendrix Small is the new big :D

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  22. omg i want such my local mall to have such interactive doors.... and when it malfunctions. MUAHAHA GET WET PEOPLE :D

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  23. It would actually be interesting for the rain door thing to.... malfunction. MUAHAHA GET WET PEOPLE :D

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  24. His accent's a little difficult to understand but this is interesting stuff for a archi-layman like myself :D

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  25. its about communication... if it took so long for tha guy to understand it.... i guess "it's more noise than signal"

    Interesting!

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  26. Here is another reason I love this film, while watching this encore showing Abbey Wambach just scored in the last 15 minutes making it 2 to 1 in the womans world cup!!! Oh, and I also love Woody Allen!!

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  27. I know little if anything about architecture, but this movie really made me think about the impact it has on our day to day lives. What a great guy Mr. Venturi is. (my cell phone's spell checker keeps trying to correct his name to Mr. Venturing, which is kind of cool.) Great movie, now on to part 2.

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  28. This film definitely needs a second viewing! It is jammed packed with information

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