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May
24
2011

Totally agree/ am intrigued by the last sentence in this paragraph (starts with "In effect..."):
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We made the city work for people for whom it had not worked in a long time. People without capital for whom low barriers to entry and not certainty of outcome were the defining issues. Those who were operating digital cottage industries and Etsy stores, artists and fashion designers, bedroom record labels and Flickr photographers. In effect we made the physical space behave as their virtual spaces did -- easy to get into and out of, allowing of experimentation and failure and most importantly full of tools and structures and plugins designed to make it simple and cheap for them to do what they are passionate about.
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Listen to the video. Couldn't we do something like this in Victoria?

www.grist.org/...nd-hacking-the-urban-landscape
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  • We made the city work for people for whom it had not worked in a long time. People without capital for whom low barriers to entry and not certainty of outcome were the defining issues. Those who were operating digital cottage industries and Etsy stores, artists and fashion designers, bedroom record labels and Flickr photographers. In effect we made the physical space behave as their virtual spaces did -- easy to get into and out of, allowing of experimentation and failure and most importantly full of tools and structures and plugins designed to make it simple and cheap for them to do what they are passionate about.
  • Experimentation is an under appreciated dynamic in cities - places to try things and (if it turns out that way) fail are necessary thing in cities - although rarely presented in such terms. I would argue strongly that most of the 60 or more projects that we have done (See www.renewnewcastle.org/projects) are ones that would not have taken the leap had we not provided the space for them to do so - and they are allowed to fail.
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Apr
22
2011

Wow. As a fan of the Commons, Hessel's observation really rocks my boat:
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Then there's Andrew Hessel, a biohacker fed up with the biotech business model, which he believes is built on the hoarding of intellectual property and leads companies to prioritize one-size-fits-all blockbuster drugs. "During the sixty years or so that computers went from a roomful of vacuum tubes to iPhones, the pace of drug development has never quickened," Hessel tells Wohlsen. Hoping to change that, Hessel is developing the first DIY drug development company, the Pink Army Cooperative, whose goal is to bioengineer custom-made viruses that will battle breast cancer. "Personalized therapies made just for you. In weeks or days, not years. Believe it. It's time for a revolution," the company's website proclaims. "We are trying to be the Linux of cancer," Hessel explains.
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additional article link:
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/37444/?a=f

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Jan
14
2009

Interesting alternative take on the news item around ocean iron fertilization, which is intended to create an algae bloom that's supposed to absorb CO2.

blog.wired.com/...fertilizethis.html
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