Sketch to Documentation, Norwegian Style.
The University of Melbourne and AILA Fresh would like to present Jenny Osuldsen who will be informally presenting and exhibiting her design process, the event will take place after The Ellis Stone Awards.

Venue, Drinks and Food provided by The University of Melbourne.

Date:	Thursday, October 9, 2008
Time:	7:00pm - 10:10pm
Location:	2nd Floor Atrium
	Uni Melb Architecture Building

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Ever see a place that was perfect for placing a little garden?
Well you're probably not the first person...and you probably aren't that weird if you want to jump up and down and yell.."PUT SOME GREENESS HERE PLEASE!!!"..well maybe a little weird...

Anyway a certain Eve S Mosher is planning to do little green spaces all over a city with little signs pointing the way...look at the website

Greenies fight back with knuckle dusters...
Well not really, but what kind of cool fashion accessory that involves live moss and shiny metal won't grow on you...

Link: Via Inhabitat

Have something to say? Submit an article to kerb 17.

Link: kerb 17

It's a Dog! No, It's a bike Rack!

Well someone is trying something different, a bike rack that is a wireframe or outline of objects that you may associate with the street character...pretty cool...


Link: Via Wallpaper

How we design influences.
I'm not one to take a political stance on many things, but have a read of this article that talks about the power of architecture and the way in which it has been and will be used to aggrandize power.

Link: Via TheStar

Design for Design as Designed.
A little article on the definition of design and how the word is used these days.

Link: Via International Herald Tribune

Old News but good news...
Well I remember awhile ago there was a post about guerilla gardening on this blog, and I just stumbled across a review of a book which talks about such gardening. So check out the links...

Guerilla Gardening Hompage
Book Review Via Archinect
Sydney Morning Herald article
Video via The Guardian

1% of water is drinkable. The other 99% just doesn't taste right.
There is an exhibition in Belgium about water, it explores the ways in which we use and abuse this resource...you can also send in samples of you water...so if you are really keen follow the link and find out more details.

Via Dezeen
Official Site

Sitting At Your Desk? Eating Lunch? Cup of Soup?
Well you could be eating this for lunch...Urban Picnic...but only in London.

Link: Via wallpaper

Getting a new phone? Add your old one to the pile.
Chris Jordan is a photographer. He takes photos of things. Consumerism.

Link: Chrisjordan.com

Every morning should be started with bacon and eggs, a coffee and a comic.

Performing arts on sculptures made of recycled materials that float.
An artist going by Swoon gathered some artists, carpenters, musicians and seafarers to construct and travel down the Hudson River on boats made to the junkyard chic aesthetic.

Link: via New York Times
Link: NYT images

Did You Know That Aluminium Foil actually protects you from aliens?
Well maybe I'm making things up...But if it did then you would be very safe in this sculpture by Kimihiko Okada. Built from a frame and lots of alfoil, this sculpture or landscape is over 900 sqm and is 6.5m high...check out the link and blurb from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toyko.

Link: Via Dezeen

Here are some quick ones...

Eco Ego
I easy flash game that tests your eco credits with options to the life of one little character...that looks like a person in an onion suit.
The game meters the onion dude/dudette's comfort and greeness for the duration of the game, and no I don't think you can kill it.

Link: Eco Ego @ 9mine

Future of suburbia
An article in the opinions section of the New York Times talking about suburbia and why do Americans like it so much...has a link to a few other articles and discussions about suburbia.

Link: New York Times


Beijing Streetscape
An interesting competition for the streetscape of Beijing. This is the winning entry by Site and WaHa Studio.

Link: Bustler

After Prefab
This website/blogspot has a special uncut version of a lecture by Bill Ferehawk. He talks about the psychology, technology, ecology and sociology of such prefab developments. He also branches out to critique other designs and how we design...interesting read.

Link: Elseplace

Submissions due this Friday the 15th!!!!!!!!!

Look, Murals on the Security Walls of Baghdad.

Link: Guardian.co.uk

The Olympics In China, Is Green...Really.
You may have seen this already, but there are a lot of very elaborate hedge trimming happening in China.

Link via inhabitat.

Mapping Nature With a Pen.
Originally I found this artist, Tim Knowles, from Inhabitat and their little blurb about Tim's work with trees creating drawings. He pretty much sticks some pens on some branches and puts a canvas/paper in front of it and let the tree do the work, but then I went to his webpage and there is a lot of very interesting works that he has done. In particular are the ones in which he used apparatus of some description, looks like a richter scale, to map a journey through the Alps, and also another one where he placed a pen in a homemade drawing box thing that would draw as it was posted from one place to another...have a look...

Link Tim Knowles
Link via Inhabitat

Environmental Eyesores.