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Makers in the City - How 11 makerspaces around the world grow communities and hack urban issues - Innovation is Everywhere
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A world tour of innovation and technology in emerging markets. Sign up for Innovation is Everywhere - Global. Stay tuned with the latest innovation news from the emerging countries. Makers in the City - How 11 makerspaces around the world grow communities and hack urban issues. Cities are the future of mankind, with 60% of the world population expected to live there by 2030. It doesn’t come without new challenges. Such as the integration of new migrants. The management of more waste. So you will find her...
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Our Favorite ideas from over the weekend on Maker Cities! |
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Our Favorite ideas from over the weekend on Maker Cities! January 28, 2014. No Comments ↓. Our massively multiplayer game for prototyping the future of cities, has been live for almost a week! The game’s first challenge, called SynchroniCity. Here is a short list of our favorite recent ideas. Click the link next to your favorite idea to support it in Maker Cities! Tools to empower the elderly, new public transit, or making cities GREEN.How would you remake your city? Our top 5 from this weekend:. A city-...
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Top 3 Ideas from the Past 2 Weeks |
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Top 3 Ideas from the Past 2 Weeks. February 28, 2014. Our massively multiplayer game for prototyping the future of cities, has wrapped up our first major challenge. We have more scheduled and just around the corner, but in the meanwhile, players have been hard at work creatively ideating without constraints. Here are some of our favorite ideas from the past couple weeks. What if your city could customize its public place ads (like bus stops or billboards) just for you? Which idea do you like best?
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Urban Acupuncturists: Mexico City Maker Field Report #1 |
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Urban Acupuncturists: Mexico City Maker Field Report #1. April 2, 2014. Future Maker Job Titles. To begin, we’ll share some future maker job titles that we brainstormed with our team in a session held at the end of our journey. Many of these were fanciful, or intentionally provocative, but they capture some of the sensibilities of transformation that we were seeing in our exuberant travels. Urban acupuncturist (thanks to ENOVA México for teaching us about Urban Acupuncture! Huerto Roma Verde’s recy...
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Maker Learning is about Discovering |
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Maker Learning is about Discovering. March 10, 2014. Imagine your city is a classroom in 2025. What will that look like? We will learn by doing–over and over. We will seek to make learning more meaningful by making it engaging and social. We will create new learning experiences that can create new opportunities for all. We will know that learning can happen with a little initiative and just a few minutes. How will your city be a classroom in 2025? What can you do to make this future happen?
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4 capabilities of a SynchroniCity. January 27, 2014. No Comments ↓. There are 61 hours left. In our first Maker Cities. You can think of a SynchroniCity as the ultimate Maker Cities, with rapid fabrication, on-demand delivery, a micro-economy of location-based gigs, and a data-based sense of the patterns and daily rhythms of residents. So how will your city be a SynchroniCity in 2025? Tell us at http:/ makercities.net. And join the conversation about the future of the world, one SynchroniCity at a time.
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Our favorite ideas from the final days of SynchroniCity challenge! |
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Our favorite ideas from the final days of SynchroniCity challenge! February 3, 2014. No Comments ↓. Our massively multiplayer game for prototyping the future of cities, has been live for two weeks! The game’s first challenge, called SynchroniCity. Every few days we’ve put out a post highlighting our top ideas from the past few days. Well, the challenge is over, and before we announce the winners, it’s time for our top 5 ideas from the final 3 days! How do you make cities happier places to live? The true ...
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Maker Cities at Burning Man Global Leadership Conference |
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Maker Cities at Burning Man Global Leadership Conference. April 10, 2014. The presentation focused on bringing makers into the design process of cities through building platforms, coordination tools, and as a format for play. In terms of platforms, makers are building vital infrastructure for their cities already– DontFlush.me. Is a home-hacked arduino project designed to measure sewage levels in New York City and alert residents not to flush to prevent overflow into public waterways; Air Quality Egg.
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In 2010 Salzburg did an experiment: transform St Julien Street in less than 24h from a car space to a pedestrian friendly space. We need more demonstrations like this! Source: International Federation of Pedestrains. Http:/ www.facebook.com/IFPedestrians. Reblogged 3 years ago from humanscalecities ( Originally from jamesjgm. Distortion due to common map projections, at a glance. Reblogged 3 years ago from mapsontheweb. That challenges everyone to imagine their own city as a Maker City in the year 2025.
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IFTF: Smart Cities
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Institute For The Future. History of the Future. INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT IFTF? As a research director for IFTF’s Technology Horizons Program, a post he has held since joining IFTF in 2005, Anthony focuses on the impact of new technology on cities and public institutions, and the role of technology in economic development . Imagine the Future of Lagos. Aug 19, 2016. From Apples to Apples to Oranges: Tech Disruption in Traditional Industries. Aug 18, 2016. Aug 17, 2016. Aug 12, 2016. Aug 11, 2016.