http://www.doorsofperception.com/ Comments on design and innovation by John Thackara en-us Copyright 2008 Sat, 10 May 2008 08:20:06 +0100 Sat, 10 May 2008 08:23:08 +0100 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/05/and_if_this_wer.php http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/05/and_if_this_wer.php Sat, 10 May 2008 08:20:06 +0100 http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/05/developed_vs_un.php http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/05/developed_vs_un.php Sat, 10 May 2008 08:18:13 +0100 http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/05/green_fatigue_l.php http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/05/green_fatigue_l.php Sat, 10 May 2008 07:45:40 +0100 My mates at Adobe found some great pix (including this one) to accompany my piece on travel and its substitutes... http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/04/the_fakespace_r.php http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/04/the_fakespace_r.php mobility & design Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:50:36 +0100 I contemplated adding a tag cloud to this site - but then decided against it on the grounds that I never use them so maybe they're not so useful after all. Very scientific. Instead, I spring-cleaned the "categories" list on... http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/04/with_his_head_i.php http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/04/with_his_head_i.php Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:13:57 +0100 Luca Pizzaroni has been working for three years on building a sculpture which is made of garment clothing from every country in the world. For the artist, this this is a "mind travel escape" - and I know we... http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/04/post_21.php http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/04/post_21.php art & perception Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:15:57 +0100 This chilling image, which I saw first at Core 77, is a visualization of space-junk by the European Space Agency. The images (there's a series) show all the satellites and human-made debris now orbiting space as a result of... http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/04/eurotrash.php http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/04/eurotrash.php infrastructure & design Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:52:53 +0100 "When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his favourite... http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/04/space_and_child.php http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/04/space_and_child.php learning & institutions Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:10:58 +0100 Readers of this blog will need no introduction to the Estonian bio-semiotician Jakob von Uexkull (1864-1944). Oh, you do? Go to the back of the class. Well, Tallinn Jake saw mind, body and context as inseparable, for all animals (including... http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/04/worship_those_w.php http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/04/worship_those_w.php books Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:31:27 +0100 The chaos at Heathrow's Terminal 5 is an excellent example of what happens when the logic of finance interacts with the logic of large complex systems. As Will Hutton wrote at the weekend, shareholders in British Airways (its sole tenant)... http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/03/heathrow_chaos.php http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/03/heathrow_chaos.php infrastructure & design Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:55:42 +0100 Killjoy environmentalists would have us stop shopping to save the planet. What a relief, then, to find a website, shopmodify.com, that teaches us how to shop and save the planet at the same time. I especially like their green shopping... http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/03/from_food_miles.php http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/03/from_food_miles.php sustainability & design Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:28:15 +0100 The USA is usually vilified as the arch despoiler of the biosphere, but is little Britain actually the number one bad guy? Tony Blair used to assert that Britain is reponsible for only two per cent of global emissions... http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/03/ecocidal_nation.php http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/03/ecocidal_nation.php mobility & design Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:53:23 +0100 This is my talk from yesterday in Helsinki at Pixelache University. There are pix here Could the biosphere be saved by six glass lamps, six speakers, 36 ultra bright leds, six diy mono amplifiers, a diy arduino-based six channel... http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/03/from_myspace_to.php http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/03/from_myspace_to.php a-list (top posts) Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:22:28 +0100 In the UK at least 20 local authorities have brought forward innovative answers to climate change. This roll call includes Woking, "> Kirklees, Barnsley, Nottingham, Braintree, and Merton. This cheering list is included in an excellent piece by Jonathon Porritt... http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/03/post_20.php http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/03/post_20.php learning & institutions Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:19:46 +0100 I'm running ths story again because the > Pixelache Uni final programme has just been publshed. * * * OK, so you know and I know that air travel is simply not sustainable. But we do it anyway because we... http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/03/traveling_witho.php http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/03/traveling_witho.php art & perception Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:24:25 +0100