Stefano Mirti’s facebook wall

20/522013

timeline archive:a personal collection of curiosities

Stefano Mirti’s facebook wall

https://www.facebook.com/stefano.mirti.3

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Ivrea

Centro Residenziale Ovest (aka talponia).

http://www.mamivrea.it/collezione/edifici/ovest.html

Now you can buy one unit. 90 squared meters on two levels, 125k euro, but they are very willing to sell, hence you make your proposal…

http://www.kijiji.it/.../appartamenti-il.../19181596

Thanks to Giannino Malossi for the link.

History of Italian Contemporary Architecture for Sale

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Triennale di Milano

Diary Room: the Workshop!

Three days of workshop for Whoami game. A lot of work, a lot of fun, a lot of supercool productions. Here above the new booklet series made by claudio farina and (in remote) Kathrin Villwock.

Very :o

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Spazio FMG per l'Architettura

Turin as the city of opportunities. Not so sure about, but on this, I have to admit I am very bias.

Anyway, Luca Ballarini and Giacomo Biraghi will present their work in Milan, this coming thu at FMG space.

More (in Italian) at: http://www.facebook.com/events/606487672695026/

Torino. La città delle opportunità

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

New York, NY, United States

Dots

"Eventually, everything connects"

(Charles Eames)

---

https://itunes.apple.com/.../dots-a-game.../id632285588…

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/13/dots/

Thanks to Piero Rivizzigno for the hint!

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

New York, NY, United States

The Me Me Me Generation

A very nice article on Times magazine:

I am about to do what old people have done throughout history: call those younger than me lazy, entitled, selfish and shallow. But I have studies! I have statistics! I have quotes from respected academics! Unlike my parents, my grandparents and my great-grandparents, I have proof.

Here's the cold, hard data: The incidence of narcissistic personality disorder is nearly three times as high for people in their 20s as for the generation that's now 65 or older, according to the National Institutes of Health; 58% more college students scored higher on a narcissism scale in…

Keep reading (if you are a subscriber of Times) at: http://www.time.com/.../article/0,9171,2143001,00.html…

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Spazio FMG per l'Architettura

Very nice summer program!

Keywords

Demystification, Remystification, Speculation, Rites, Ritual, Sagas, Black Metal, Symbolism, Reinventing Histories, Identity, States, Next Nature, Mapping, Storytelling

More at: http://www.graphicdesignarnhem.nl/summersessions/

Graphic Design Arnhem goes Summer Sessions.

Otherwise, you have to buy the paper mag (actually, this week, it is worth).

Thanks to Rachaporn Choochuey for the link!

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

1952, Japan

Three-Legged Vase

Isamu Noguchi "Three-Legged Vase", 1952.

Here a precious link to see a great collection of Noguchi's ceramics: http://mondo-blogo.blogspot.it/.../isamu-noguchi-ceramics...

Thanks to Giulia Fiorista.

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Santa Cristina Paulilatino

I am very excited. Tomorrow I will give a lecture on "Architecture and Interaction Design". Since the school is in Oristano, the lecture will be at Pozzo Sacro di Santa Cristina.

One of the most striking case-studies of interactive building of the last 10.000 years. A magic dwell, astronomically organized, in order to have (once per year) the sun making love to the moon.

Goosebumps!

More at: http://www.ciaosardinia.com/.../santa-cristina-sacred-well

A Class on Interaction Design and Architecture

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Milan

The GrandBox goes to print!

Do you remember the GranTouristas project? Its fabolous GrandBox?

Now, on printed paper, Abitare, May 2013.

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Oristano

Sunset

Too long to explain what do I do here. Anyway, fairly odd.

Rhode Island School of Design

What is design? (or, John Maeda on Bill Moggridge)

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

From John Maeda's blog:

The late Bill Moggridge says it well in his 1-hour lecture above delivered at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Bill's clear definition for "What is Design?" is about just two things: 1) understanding people, and 2) prototyping examples to try them out. In other words, it's about empathy and efficacy.

At minute 22, Bill makes a pivotal point about his diagram (above) on the design process. He says, "There's a tendency for this process to move in a clockwise direction. The reality is slightly different -- the green arrows show the instance of a real example. You see it jumped around from place to place .... So the process doesn't have to follow any rigorous way. It just can be followed in a pragmatic way where you go to the things that are most successful."

Thanks, Bill! -JM

http://whatisdesign.net/.../bill-moggridge-on-what-is-designhttp://whatisdesign.net/

Thanks to Piero Rivizzigno for the link.

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Nichelino

Base Alpha

It's a fantastic project by Martino Gamper with the support of Maurizio Cilli, Rebecca de Marchi, Lisa Parola (A Titolo Torino) and the AUT collective.

From an original idea of Elena Greco.

More (in Italian) at: http://www.atitolo.it/

To know more follow Maurizio Cilli's fb page...

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Santa Cristina

Moss & Ivy & Stones

Once per year, I like to spend some 20 minutes in the nature. Very relaxing.

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Santa Cristina

Then, I was in a nuraghe, and I met a bear of light...

"Sardinia is out of time and history"

David Herbert Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia, 1921

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Oristano

Altars for Unknown Religions (Series)

This one, on water. Very nice. Also, very nice to have breakfast in front of it.

Wish you were here...

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Cooper Union

The "New" Cooper Union

This is truly fantastic. If you are interested in education, and the future (or, if you prefer, the present) of education, this is for you:

cooperunion.biz/

In case you didn't get it, here an article, where you get all the explanations you need:

http://www.fastcoexist.com/.../tricky-activists-protest…

Thanks to Piero Rivizzigno for the link!

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Sicilia, Italy

Way Before Twitter (and Much Better...)

It was the 2nd of November 1973, and an analphabet woman in Sicily wrote a letter to her husband, emigrant in Germany.

The lady didn't know how to write, but she was very willing to communicate with him. Hence, she invented a curious pictogram system to express all the things she wanted to say.

Here you have more about this story (in Italian): http://www.ilpost.it/.../una-lettera-damore-in-sicilia.../

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Thanks to Gaspare Caliri for the link!

London, United Kingdom

This is just rubbish.

It is a resource for experimentation with pinhole photography. Streets and public spaces are invaded by abandoned, broken, unwanted objects.Some enjoy taking photos of rubbish, we want rubbish to take photos of us.http://www.thisisjustrubbish.org/

A great project by Elisa Magnini, thanks to Marco Lampugnani for sharing the link!

http://www.elisamagnini.com

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Santa Cristina di Paulilatino

Sacred Well

Wish you were here!

More images at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...

Slovenia

A Fantastic Series of Wooden (Pin-hole) Cameras

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

Through his brand ONDU, woodworker Elvis Halilović has been making lensless pinhole cameras for over seven years along with a wide variety of ceramic and structural objects, including kits for geodesic domes.

This week the Slovenian designer unveiled a beautifully designed series of pinhole cameras made from wood and held together in part by strong magnets. Forget your camera phone, filters, and “likes,” these tough little lensless film cameras are old school and completely manual, relying on direct exposure of light to film.

Keep reading at: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/.../put-down-the-iphone.../

More at: http://www.ondu.si/

The original article actually is linked: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/.../put-down-the-iphone.../

Stefano’s facebook timeline 20/52 2013

China

Arduino Yún. Or, Arduino Goes with (Linux Support)

Arduino Yún. Or, Arduino goes wifi with (Linux support).

Massimo Banzi announced it Saturday, during his annual “The state of Arduino” presentation at Maker Faire Bay Area: Arduino Yún is the first of a revolutionary family of wifi products combining Arduino with Linux.

Yún means “cloud” in chinese language, as the purpose of this board to make it simple to connect to complex web services directly from Arduino.

Keep reading at: http://blog.arduino.cc/.../welcome-arduino-yun-the.../...