J. Baldwin.

James Tennant Baldwin is an American industrial designer and writer. Baldwin was a student of Buckminster Fuller; Baldwin's work has been inspired by Fuller's principles and (in the case of some of Baldwin's published writing) has popularized and interpreted Fuller's ideas and achievements. In his own right, Baldwin has been a figure in American designers' efforts to incorporate solar, wind, and other renewable sources of energy. In his career, being a fabricator has been as important as being a designer. Baldwin is noted as the inventor of the geodesic "Pillow Dome."

J. Baldwin.

3-2-1 Contact: Architecture.

3-2-1 Contact.

Computer Chronicles.

Hosted by Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles was the world's most popular television program on personal technology during the height of the personal computer revolution. It was broadcast for twenty years from 1983 - 2002. The program was seen on more than 300 television stations in the United States and in over 100 countries worldwide, with translations into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic. The series had a weekly television broadcast audience of over two million viewers.

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André Malraux.

“An art book is a museum without walls.”

André Malraux.

Chalk Board Photo Booth.

Chalk board photo booth shot during the Girl Skateboards Open House & Skate Contest on Inaugaration Day, Jan. 20th 2009 by Andy Mueller and Eric Anthony.

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Clay Shirky.

Clay Shirky, author of the just released "Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations" speaking at Harvard Law School's Austin Hall on Feb. 28,2008 hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

Clay Shirky.

Associative Design.

By using associative design techniques, this research studio investigates the potential of new site-specific housing environments in the China´s Jiangnan River Delta. Typically understood as a parametric design technique using metric parameters to create an infinite number of variations, associative design is a technique based on associative geometry. These geometries describe the relationships between various assemblies and constitute a design object as mutually linked geometrical construction. Associative software was developed within the manufacturing industries to link design to make manufacturing processes more efficient. While most of the current architectural research favors this kind of application, our research applies associative design to all scales of a design process to increase its relevance to the discipline. This process is applied to China with the aim of designing new living environments which form city life, urban policies, desires, attention and growth. By using local historical housing types, each of these environments will consist of a population of housing units that together form a synthetic vernacular.

Project by the Berlage Institute.

Damon Rich.

Damon Rich gives his first talk on Red Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures, Risk Structures, his project at MIT on how architecture is financed.

Damon Rich.

Gerd Arntz.

In his early twenties, the young German artist Gerd Arntz said goodbye to his bourgeois background and committed himself to the struggle of the underprivileged workers. During an artistic career spanning 50 years, he has continually criticized social inequality, exploitation and war in clear-cut prints – activism with artistic means. In Düsseldorf, Arntz attended an art academy in the early 1920s to become a drawing teacher. There, he frequented revolutionary circles, rebel minds who wanted to turn Weimar Germany into a ‘soviet republic’, styled after early communist Russia. He also came into contact with the new movements in the arts at the time, such as expressionism and constructivism. For activist artists like Arntz, the wood-cut was the chosen medium, because of its ‘primitive’ aspect and its clear black-and-white contrast. In the 1930s, Arntz switched to linoleum-cuts. With his comrades, the Cologne artists Franz Seiwert and Heinrich Hoerle, he read Marxist and anarchist literature and developed his own style of portraying society as segregated in classes, struggling within the technological milieu of the modern city. His prints were exhibited, sold to sympathetic art lovers, and published in magazines of the activist left in Germany and abroad. When Arntz was asked by Otto Neurath to join his team at the Vienna Museum of Society and Economy, and develop Isotype, he took it as an opportunity to expand the reach of his political beliefs into the realm of actively informing the proletariat, albeit as a graphic designer. At he same time, this steady job provided him the means to continue his own artistic work, completely independent of the art market or political affiliations. His prints criticizing the capitalist system did, for instance, not prevent him from critically looking at the downside of the Soviet Union in other prints.

Gerd Arntz.

Fred Rogers.

In 1969, Fred Rogers appeared before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications. His goal was to support funding for PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in response to significant proposed cuts by President Nixon.

Fred Rogers.

The Annotation Impulse.

Some of the bathrooms at MIT have chalkboards in them. It plays into the fantasy of being an MIT student: the head-in-the-clouds genius who will come up with the answer to a seemingly unsolvable theorem while standing over a urinal. He just must jot it down! But it also combats more permanent bathroom graffiti. Given a place to scribble something scandelous, knowing it can easily be erased, people who wouldn’t otherwise write things on walls might leave something behind for the next person to ponder.

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