As part of the project "Digital Stories" within DUL's Civic Communication group, a team headed by journalist Lars Kabel has developed and produced a digital publication, an eMagazine, covering the environmental situation in Indonesia. The project is testing and uncovering journalistic methods and editorial potential in the total integration of facts, text, audio, video and blog.
Introducing the Planetary Pledge Pyramid from The People Speak on Vimeo. Our friend from The People Speak, Saul Albert, introduces the world-changing game developed by DARC/Digital Urban Living and The People Speak. Planetary Pledge Pyramid is an attempt to establish a platform for a global discussion on climate changes and to take Web 2.0 to a new level. We have often seen how people can support a cause.
In this game all ideas come from the participants, who themselves back the best ideas with real money to make them happen. At a time when the politicians may very well fail in deciding anything on the climate issue, Planetary Pledge Pyramid introduces an alternative system for decision-making and effectuation. http://apps.facebook.com/pppgame/
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Is it just opportunism that art and artists flock around the climate issue? Is it harmful to art to be related to this big issue? Is it a return to dogmatic art with the ‘right’ opinions?
Or is it only natural (sic) and necessary that artists enter the debate? Is it perhaps an integral question to art, that has often been concerned with depicting nature, landscapes, changing realities? Does digital art have a special role or potential?
Read articles (e.g. Søren Pold's "Imaginary Interfaces in the Blue Sky" that argues for the special potential of digital art in relation to climate change) and enter the debate staged around the Rethink exhibitions (SMK, Nikolaj, Den Frie and don’t forget Moesgaard!) here: http://www.rethinkclimate.org/debat/rethink-art/
Digital Urban Living is participating in COP 15 and Rethink with several projects. More about this soon!
As part of the course "Urban Interactions" at Information Studies, Aarhus University, students presented concepts and prototypes of systems they have developed. Below are a list of links to their web presentations.
On 6th november Ole Iversen and Christian Dindler gave an invited talk at City University of New York about the DUL project. In particular, the talk framed a discussion with researchers from the American Social History Project about the design of interactive technologies for cultural heritage communication.
Peter Wright, Art and Design Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University (UK) is visiting IMV on november 19. In his talk he will outline some health-related projects he is currently involved with which have taken different approaches to the problem of bringing lived experience to design.
On October 28, DUL and CAVI in collaboration with Musicon held a workshop on engaging and interactive experiences in urban space. The aim of the workshop was to develop ideas for interactive installations on the site of Musicon, a former industrial area in Roskilde, Denmark.
On 6th november Ole Iversen and Christian Dindler gave an invited talk at City University of New York about the DUL project. In particular, the talk framed a discussion with researchers from the American Social History Project about the design of interactive technologies for cultural heritage communication.
Peter Wright, Art and Design Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University (UK) is visiting IMV on november 19. In his talk he will outline some health-related projects he is currently involved with which have taken different approaches to the problem of bringing lived experience to design.
