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      7 Feb 2010

      Switch: how to change things when change is hard

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      txt: Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard - amazon.com
      One of the most consistent findings in psychology is that people behave differently when their environment changes. When we’re in a place where people are quiet (church), we’re quiet. When we’re in a place where people are loud (stadiums), we’re loud. When we’re driving and the lanes narrow, we slow down. When they widen, we speed up again. This may seem obvious, but when we try to make change at work, we often make the mistake of obsessing about the people involved rather than their environment. Often the easiest way to drive change is to shape the environment.
      video: Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around The World - vimeo.com [vimeo http://vimeo.com/2539741]
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      7 Feb 2010

      Question: how has the internet transformed our lives for the worse?

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      txt: You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto - A Q&A with Author Jaron Lanier - amazon.com
      Question: You argue the web isn’t living up to its initial promise. How has the internet transformed our lives for the worse? Jaron Lanier: The problem is not inherent in the Internet or the Web. Deterioration only began around the turn of the century with the rise of so-called "Web 2.0" designs. These designs valued the information content of the web over individuals. It became fashionable to aggregate the expressions of people into dehumanized data. There are so many things wrong with this that it takes a whole book to summarize them. Here’s just one problem: It screws the middle class. Only the aggregator (like Google, for instance) gets rich, while the actual producers of content get poor. This is why newspapers are dying. It might sound like it is only a problem for creative people, like musicians or writers, but eventually it will be a problem for everyone. When robots can repair roads someday, will people have jobs programming those robots, or will the human programmers be so aggregated that they essentially work for free, like today’s recording musicians? Web 2.0 is a formula to kill the middle class and undo centuries of social progress.
      link: www.jaronlanier.com
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      6 Feb 2010

      The roots of the future

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      Vò di Brendola: un borgo nel mezzo delle zone industriali, che trattiene la grazia e la fatica della campagna veneta e le sue ville. Una sala gestita da persone per le persone, duecento posti. Una rassegna di musica internazionale e di teatro. Una gioia inaspettata di questo Veneto così piccolo e così globale. Come Marco Polo. Da sentire e vedere. [en] Vò di Brendola: a village in the middle of industrial areas, which retains the grace and the fatigue of the Venetian countryside and its villas. A hall run by people for people, two hundred seats. A review of international music and theater. An unexpected joy of this Veneto so small and so global. Like Marco Polo.

      To hear and see. Vo’ on the Folks - 15a edizione 2010 - “Musica-rito-danza fra le radici ed il futuro” AMINE ET HAMZA (Tunisia) video: Amine & Hamza M'raihi on youtube [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXX7U4dmwnQ] link: www.amine-hamza.com

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      2 Feb 2010

      An adventure of the eye and mind

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      Nelle osservazioni di Jonathan Jones sul telescopio Hubble come avventura dell'occhio e del pensiero ritrovo un filo con quello che pensavo girando per Venezia questa estate. L'arte contemporanea mi interessa se è un modo di vedere per conoscere. Internet mi interessa se - oltre ad essere aiuto nella vita quotidiana - allarga il pensiero. L'arte contemporanea, internet per sè non mi entusiasmano più. Mi sa che sto invecchiando. Va assolutamente bene così. txt: Art: the final frontier - guardian.co.uk
      The Hubble space telescope has brought about a visual revolution, more significant than any recent work of art in transforming the way we see ourselves and the cosmos. And shouldn't we be starting to admit that it was more important than Apollo? The moon missions were based on Newtonian science and confirmed a Newtonian model of the universe (planets in orbit, trajectories, everything very mechanical). The Hubble has revealed to the eye a cosmos that is far more poetic, mysterious, and fluid.
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      Source: Hubblesite.org
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      29 Jan 2010

      Green economy in Venice

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      txt: Green economy - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Green economy is a fast growing new economic development model in contrast to the existing 'black' economic model based on fossil fuels, such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas. The green economy is based on a knowledge of Ecological economics that aims at addressing the interdependence of human economies and natural ecosystem and the adverse impact of human economic activities on climate change and global warming. In the midst of the global economic crisis, the UNEP United Nations Environment Program called for a Global Green Deal according to which governments were encouraged to support its economic transformation to a greener economy (UNEP, October 22, 2008). Green economy includes green energy generation based on renewable energy to substitute for fossil fuels and energy conservation for efficient energy use. The green economy is considered being able to both create green jobs, ensure real, sustainable economic growth, and prevent environmental pollution, global warming, resource depletion, and environmental degradation.
      link: Green Economics Institute - Miriam Kennet teaches at Venice International University , April 22nd -24th 2010
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      24 Jan 2010

      Giorgione: the hidden myth

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      txt: The life of Giorgione - www.giorgione2010.it
      On the whole, Giorgione's works continue to elude us, not merely in terms of autography, but also in their most profound meaning. While the surviving and acknowledged paintings by the artist reflect exclusively secular, civic or "private" forms of engagement (even the Castelfranco Altarpiece was actually commissioned by the famous condottiere Tuzio Costanzo), many interpretative keys have been suggested for Giorgione's work: they have been regarded as philosophical exercises of a Neoplatonic bent on the theme of love, as depictions related to Classical literature, even as manifestos of Jewish culture in Venice. Then comes legend, and what has been constructed on the basis of a very limited number of sources. Among these "inventions" is that concerning the painter's death from "love sickness" when his lover fled with his disciple Pietro Luzzo da Feltre. This episode, which appears to have been told for the first time only in 1648 by Carlo Ridolfi, ultimately confirms an established fact: that by then the making of myths about Giorgione was already underway.
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      21 Jan 2010

      A green New Deal for Venice (and not only)

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      txt: Per un'economia verde in una città ecologica / For a green economy in an ecological town - University Ca' Foscari Venezia
      E' tempo che Venezia, da “vittima eccellente” del surriscaldamento globale, si candidi ad essere la Capitale, europea e mondiale, della lotta ai cambiamenti climatici, a partire dalla radicale conversione ecologica dell’economia locale e della stessa organizzazione della sua vita metropolitana, imperniata sul ricorso a fonti energetiche rinnovabili e ad una mobilità sostenibile. [en] It's time that Venice instead of a global warming "casualty", became an european and global capital of the fight against climate changes, starting from an ecological radical conversion of the local economy and the organization of its urban life, focused on renewable energies and sustainable mobility.
      links: - A Green New Deal for Europe - Towards Green Modernization in the face of Crisis - Green European Foundation - Wuppertal Institute
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      16 Jan 2010

      A flooded future

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      link: FACING UP TO RISING SEA LEVELS RETREAT? DEFEND? ATTACK? - www.buildingfutures.org.uk txt: Flooding explained - The Royal Institute of British Architects
      Climate Change and Increased Flood Risk The potential impacts of climate change during the next 30 to 80 years have been estimated by UKCIP, the United Kingdom Climate Impacts Programme. UKCIP| 02 (2002) provided a range of climate change scenarios recommended for use by Government for the assessment of climate change impacts. In the context of assessing flood risk the key results are: * the UK climate will become warmer; * winters will become wetter and summers may become drier everywhere; * heavy winter rain and snow will become more frequent; * relative sea level will continue to rise around most of the UK shoreline; and * extreme sea levels will be experienced more frequently. Climate change is therefore likely to increase flood risk significantly and progressively for all areas of the UK over time. At particularly increased risk will be low-lying coastal areas, as sea levels rise, and areas across the UK not currently prone to fluvial or tidal flooding as more intense rainfall leads to significantly higher risk of flooding from surface run-off and overwhelmed drainage systems.
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      10 Jan 2010

      Venice vs. the Sea

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      One of the nicest article on Venice written by a "foresta" (a "foreigner woman").. txt: Vanishing Venice: The world tugs at the lovely hem of the city Thomas Mann called "half fairy tale and half tourist trap." - nationalgeographic.com
      Finally, there is tourism. Of that, Cacciari the philosopher said this: "Venice is not a sentimental place of honeymoon. It's a strong, contradictory, overpowering place. It is not a city for tourists. It cannot be reduced to a postcard."
      [flickr video=http://www.flickr.com/photos/oddtag/4084886351/]
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      3 Jan 2010

      Artist as a special effect

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      txt: Anish Kapoor: portrait of the artist as a special effect - timesonline.co.uk

      Here is an artist who plays games with perceptions. Can emptiness become an object? Can the monumental be immaterial? Can the ethereal take solid form? At what point does something come into being and at what point does it vanish back into complete non-existence?

      video: ANISH KAPOOR Shooting into the Corner | MAK Vienna - youtube.com

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