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Dar Alhajar, Sanaa

Unknown Image

To keep the conversation going, here the

flabbergasting Rock Palace, in Dar Al-Hajar

(Yemen).

Here the link to get to know more: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/.../Imam%27s+Rockin%

27+Palace...
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/travelblogs/53/90931/Imam%27s+Rockin%27+Palace?destId=361177http://www.lonelyplanet.com/travelblogs/53/90931/Imam%27s+Rockin%27+Palace?destId=361177http://www.lonelyplanet.com/travelblogs/53/90931/Imam%27s+Rockin%27+Palace?destId=361177https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dar-Alhajar-Sanaa/176049405839647?ref=stream&viewer_id=1344697023

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La Biennale di Venezia

The GrandBox

-image courtesy of: Giulio Pascali-

It has been the nicest project I've been working at

in the whole year. A community of people

gathered around http://www.facebook.com/groups/GranTouristas, an atlas of interesting

places & people to go to see and meet around

Italy: http://www.facebook.

com/GrandTourVeniceBiennale012

All of this, became physical in 100 GrandBoxes.

Thanks to all the GranTouristas. Very nice to play

with you!
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Nichelino

Great work by Martino Gamper in Torino's

outskirts.

A proejct made possible by Maurizio CilliandRebecca de Marchi(Eco e Narciso) + Situa.to. With

the great support of the kids living in the quartiere

Castello.

Martino Gamper's Shiny

Bubble
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Mr Gangnam

Undoubtfully the 2012 has been the year of mr

Psy, aka mr Gangnam Style.

More the one billion views on YouTube, or: Korea

Rules!

Wikipedia explains:

"Gangnam Style" is a Korean neologism that refers

to a lifestyle associated with the Gangnam District

of Seoul, where people are trendy, hip and exudea certain supposed "class." The term was listed in

Time's weekly vocabulary list as a manner

associated with lavish lifestyles in Seoul's Gangnam

district. PSY likened the Gangnam District to

Beverly Hills, California, and said in an interviewthat he intended in a twisted sense of humour by

claiming himself to be "Gangnam Style" when

everything about the song, dance, looks, and the

music video is far from being such a high class.
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Baghdad, Iraq

Very nice project, as read in the Economist.

A (Literary) Bridge to

Baghdad

"People who are actually from Gangnam never

proclaim that they areit's only the posers and

wannabes that put on these airs and say that they

are "Gangnam Style"so this song is actually

poking fun at those kinds of people who are trying

so hard to be something that they're not"

~Psy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnam_Style

Here the video: https://www.youtube.

com/watch?v=HUk69c7...
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On March 5th 2007, at the bloody midpoint of the

Iraq war, a car bomb exploded on al-Mutanabbi

Street in Baghdad. The attack tore through the

heart of the citys historic literary district, a block

crammed with cafs and bookstores. The

Shahbandar coffeehouse, a meeting place for

generations of Iraqi writers and intellectuals, was

blown to pieces; the owners four sons and one

grandson were killed. Thirty people died and 100

were wounded in the blast, for which no group

ever claimed responsibility.

A world away, a San Francisco bookseller read

about the attack in his morning paper. Beau

Beausoleil, a poet and proprietor of the Great

Overland Book Company, a second-hand book

store, waited for the outpouring of support and

outrage that would surely follow. Nothing

happened. Mr Beausoleil felt compelled to act. An

attack on writers and booksellers anywhere in the

world was an attack on them all.

Keep reading at: http://www.economist.com/...

/al-mutanabbi-street-starts-here
http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/12/al-mutanabbi-street-starts-herehttp://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/12/al-mutanabbi-street-starts-herehttp://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/12/al-mutanabbi-street-starts-here

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Milan

Through the Window

Giorgio Barreras series Through the Window is

somewhat more complex than it appears at first:

Inside each of the rooms seen in the photos, the

artist put flash lights - with the consent of the

people living in those apartments - to trigger themand take a photo whenever he decided to: Smile!,

you are on camera (but you wont know when).

Check his website to see the original of this image

above, as well as to see much more:http://www.giorgiobarrera.it/
http://www.giorgiobarrera.it/http://www.giorgiobarrera.it/http://www.giorgiobarrera.it/https://www.facebook.com/giorgio.barrerahttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Milan-Italy/108581069173026?ref=stream&viewer_id=1344697023

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Mexico

The (New) Book of Questions

What if it was the body that gives meaning to

space? @laperiferia, 2012

In 1974 Pablo Neruda published his best-seller

The Book of Questions: poems in the shape ofquestions, observing whatever surrounded him,

with the wonder of a child. Is in this spirit that the

project

The ( New) Book of Questions is founded: toobserve and question the territories in process

we live in, rather than to answer them. These

questions will lead authors and lectors into the

realm of further observation and, if lucky, further

questioning. The aim of this book is to become adevice or tool for thinking, observing and

understanding the landscape, city, and space.

The (New) Book of questions will document , in
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the format of questions, different perceptions of

the territory during a year (Nov. 8th. 2012 until

Nov 8th 2013).

Follow the project at: http://nomadicity.tumblr.

com/.../what-if-it-was-the-body

More about The Nomad (alter ego of Evangelina

Guerra Lujn) at: http://about.me/thnmd

Follow her on twitter at: @____thenomad

You can also follow this, very nice: http://thnmd.

tumblr.com/

Sukhumvit 39

Printing Covers...

Happily busy in booklet making
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More at: http://www.facebook.

com/groups/WHOAMInotebookchallenge/

Have a nice day to all!

United Kingdom, Surrey, Guilford

Very impressive and very addictive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/.../Curiosity_%E2%80%

93_What%27s

http://www.22cans.com/

You can download it here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details

https://itunes.apple.com/.../curiosity-whats...

/id557549271

Curiosity. What's inside the

cube?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/curiosity-whats-inside-cube/id557549271https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pm22cans.curiosityhttp://www.22cans.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_%E2%80%93_What%27s_Inside_the_Cube%3Fhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/curiosity-whats-inside-cube/id557549271https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pm22cans.curiosityhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/curiosity-whats-inside-cube/id557549271https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/curiosity-whats-inside-cube/id557549271https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pm22cans.curiosityhttp://www.22cans.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_%E2%80%93_What%27s_Inside_the_Cube%3Fhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_%E2%80%93_What%27s_Inside_the_Cube%3Fhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/United-Kingdom-Surrey-Guilford/137045083047967?ref=stream&viewer_id=1344697023https://www.facebook.com/groups/WHOAMInotebookchallenge/https://www.facebook.com/groups/WHOAMInotebookchallenge/

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Thanks to Piero Rivizzignofor the link!

Brno

Machinarium

I always loved Czech design. Here once again, here

we go

Generally, I don't like so much contemporary

digital/video games. But here there is anexception. A nice game with fantastic visual

world.

http://machinarium.net/demo/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinarium

Interesting to know that: "Machinarium was

developed over a period of three years, by seven

Czech developers, who financed the project with

their own savings. The marketing budget for thegame was a scant $1,000".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinariumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinariumhttp://machinarium.net/demo/https://www.facebook.com/Brno.cz?ref=stream&viewer_id=1344697023https://www.facebook.com/piero.rivizzigno

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Edward Bellamy House

Looking Backward

Another interesting person I've met thanks to the

GT game is ms Laura Basco. She knows a lot of

things, and chitchatting with her is nice because I

get to learn lots of (cool) stuff, I've never heard

about.

Here for instance her reference to Edward

Bellamy's Looking Backward book.

Wikipedia explains:Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian science

fiction novel by Edward Bellamy; it was first

published in 1887.

It was the third-largest bestseller of its time, afterUncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the

Christ.

It influenced a large number of intellectuals, and

appears by title in many of the major Marxist
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writings of the day. "It is one of the few books

ever published that created almost immediately

on its appearance a political mass movement".

In the United States alone, over 162 "Bellamy

Clubs" sprang up to discuss and propagate the

book's ideas. Owing to its commitment to the

nationalization of private property, this political

movement came to be known as Nationalism, not

to be confused with the political concept of

nationalism.

The novel also inspired several utopian

communities.

Keep reading at: http://en.wikipedia.

org/wiki/Looking_Backward
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Guatemala

Guatemalan developers are building a nearly

independent city for the wealthy on the outskirts

of a capital marred by crime and snarled by

traffic. At its heart is the 34-acre (14-hectare)

Paseo Cayala, with apartments, parks, high-end

boutiques, church, nightclubs, and restaurants, all

within a ring of white stucco walls.

The builders of Paseo Cayala say it is a livable,

walkable development that offers housing for

Guatemalans of a variety of incomes, though so far

the cheapest apartments cost about 70 times the

average Guatemalan's yearly wage.

Keep reading at:http://www.huffingtonpost.

com/.../paseo-cayala-guatemala

Cayala City. A Private Town

for Rich People to Escape

Crime
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Flims

The Architect's Studio

Valerio Olgiati - Dado, the architects studio.

A very special space.

Here some other images: http://subtilitas.tumblr.com/.../valerio-olgiati-dado-the

Thanks to Joseph Djenandji for sharing the link.

Thanks to Giulio Pascalifor the link.
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Playboy Mansion, Beverly Hills

The Guardian reports:

"Hefner, 86, wearing what appeared to be purplesilk pyjamas under a black bathrobe and snuggling

his bride, 26, still wearing her pale pink wedding

dress. He also wore his trademark captain's hat"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/.../01/hugh-hefner-gets-playmate

Hail to the Chief!

Purple Silk Pajamas (Getting

Married in)
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Turin

Postal Dossier

For Viaggi Postali (Postal Voyages) 25 friends, co-

workers or family members were selected.

Alighiero Boetti sent envelopes addressed to his

'travellers', knowing they would be returned as

undeliverable.

Boetti photocopied the returned mail, placed it

into a new envelope and sent it on its next

journey. These photocopies were gathered

together and systematically ordered in the DossierPostale (Postal Dossier).

Imaginary journeys were drawn up for his

addressees; Boetti would send the gallerist Leo

Castelli on a tour or Morocco's grandest hotels, hiscolleague, the artist Giulio Paolini, would be sent

to every address Boetti had ever lived in. Other

'recipients' included Marcel Duchamp, Bruce

Nauman, Lucy Lippard and Seth Siegelaub.
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Keep reading at: http://openfileblog.blogspot.

com/.../alighiero-boetti

It was 1969!

JISC Digital Media

This free, open and online course (MOOC) has been

designed with further and higher education

professionals in mind - lecturers, qualification

teams, awarding bodies, learning technologists,

library and student support staff and learning and

teaching specialists - but may also be of interest

to teachers (or teachers to be) in secondary

schools or informal/work based learning

facilitators, in fact, anyone with an interest in

curriculum and learning design.

Learning Design for a 21st

Century Curriculum
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Keep reading at: https://sites.google.com/a/olds.

ac.uk/oldsmooc

Thanks to Jolanda De Villiers Morkel for the link.

Corso Magenta

Big Ben Zine

Since a new year is starting now, let me link oneof my favorite design zine: Legrenzi Susanna's Big

Ben ZIne.

http://www.bigbenzine.com/

You can also follow the news on facebook: http:

//www.facebook.com/.../big-ben-art...

/118993556076and twitter: @bigbenzine.
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Berlin-Mitte

Das Weisse Buch

This fact that I can't speak or read German

properly, is something that once in a while, it

really annoys me.

This is one of these situations. There is a greatbook by agreat author, but not much to

understand (beyond its title).

Anyway, here a link to startto get into mr Horzon

world: http://www.goethe.de/.../prj/mtg/men/kun/raf/en6890643.htm

Here a link to his website (again, everything in

German): http://www.modocom.de/

Thanks toIva Na Langstrumpffor introducing me

into this (very) magic world!
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