Today, there are 19 countries with very high risk of social unrest according to a study by the Economist Intelligence unit.
Is the top-down governance including the society in its policy formulation?
WE THINK NOT… Read More
LymphoCity
Posted in Mohamad Yassin, Raphael Teixeira Libonati , Rasha Sukkarieh, Rodolfo Parolin Hardy, Sinem Samanci, Sofia Kcomt Villacorta, Uncategorized Comments closed
The Grid
Posted in Alejandro Martinez del Campo, Gustavo Adolfo Triana Martinez, Ian Harold Mann, Irina Shaklova, Natalie Alima, Ricardo Perez Borbolla Comments closed
Factory of the Future
Climate change.
We have all heard of it.The news, the political campaigns, the NGO’s make sure you hear enough of it.And we think we know what its about. Greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, water vapour, methane.And we know about the effects too. More than that, we feel the effects.The hot days, floods, abnormal weather behaviours.
But what do we do about it other than intaking information? We recycle, pay attention to our purchases, plant a tree and then we call ourselves informed and involved.
We are not angry enough.
Posted in Hriday Siddarth Saini, Ismail Gokhan Catikkas, Maria Agnieszka Czajczynska , Rodion Eremeev, Ruxandra Iancu Bratosin Tagged architecture, cloud seeding, cloud9, enric ruiz geli, nature photonics, Ruxandra Bratosin, water, water scarcity Comments closed
B-Linked
Barcelona has undergone tremendous changes in past few decades in becoming world’s most admired city for urban development. Leveraging on 1992 Olympics it transformed from a neglected industrial city to vibrant hub for business, logistics and tourism. By 2001, the city was ranked as the Europe’s sixth most attractive city for international business investment and was 3rd by 2012. The economy however, has benefitted much from its attractiveness as the 4th best urban tourism destination in Europe. With an inflow of 7.8 million tourist and 2.3 billion Euros, the tourism industry has both positive and negative influence on the city and its inhabitants. Read More
Posted in Akanksha Kargwal, Ashwini Mani, Maureen Eunice Estrella Lora, Novak Kijac, Remita Thomas Comments closed
Methane Bomb and retrofitting Mongolia
Methane. The most dangerous greenhouse gas of all times.
It is hidden in frozen permafrost in the tundra at the nothern hemisphere. Until now, it has not been seen as the biggest environmental problem. But during the global rise of the temperature, humanity have a serious problem, which we in short time has to deal with. The permafrost is melting and the trapped methane can be released within a very short time and have the effect on the planet as 400.000 atomic bombs. The KATA project is a rescue program dealing with a unexposed problem, methane. The project will start to retrofit Mongolia, which is where the methane first will attack the environment.
Picture; Collage made on the background of SuperStudio (Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia)
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Posted in Agnieszka Wanda Janusz, Alessio Salvatore Verdolino, Kateryna Rogynska, Tobias Grumstrup Lund Øhrstrøm Tagged Bacteria, Methane, Methanol, Mongolia, Nomadic Comments closed