Tagging Beiruti’s sweetest memories

One of the sub-workshop we did at the Public Space Workshop at Studio Beirut, last week. We categorized the memories into 5 groups: Encounters, Romance, Childhood, Heroism and Escape. The first movie by me (Encounters and Heroism) the second by Olivier (Romance). Enjoy.

Game/Toy Design by Will Wright: Spore

Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces. Here Wright encourages users to create not households, as in The Sims, or cities, as in SimCity, but the entire universe, from single-celled life forms to galactic physics. “

YouTube: Will Wright: Toys that make worlds
TED
Spore

Moore’s Law Meets Sustainability

A thought provoking proposal about where we could be heading with sustainable building and urbanisation. The scenario presented is not that far-out i think, although the architectural proposals in the video are, but it is a thought experiment, so why not.

Catastrophic Space

catastrophic spaceCatastrophic Space, Partizan Publik produced an online audio tour. Click here and join Beirut’s artist and architect Tony Chakar’s personal walking through the city and listen to an inspiring analysis of time and place as the result of catastrophe.

Misunderstood

Ghosts Of Cité Soleil

If you have the chance, check this movie out. I saw it a while ago in Istanbul at the Independent Filmfestival And now it’s coming to the movie theaters. 

An unbelievable reality is portrayed in the film, accompanied by a great hiphop soundtrack by Wyclef Jean. “An epic portrait of a family and a culture torn apart by poverty and violence, Ghosts of Cite Soleil is a powerful and unsettling documentary that takes us inside the lives of the notorious gang leaders who dominate the Haitian slum of Cite Soleil, one of the most desperate communities in the Western hemisphere.”

DSD_NY: Architects and Urbanist in Residence Studio

Delft School of Design, New York.
very nice… Delft’s ambition in the theory department rooting.

I decided not to do any PHd, but now, I might have to reconsider with this tempting forsight on Essex street 131

Delft School of Design dsd.tudelft.nl

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