PUBLIC MARKS with tag societé

Now today there are few human beings who, for biological reasons, cannot forget. What sounds like a blessing, they certainly do remember where they parked their car in a shopping mall. It turns out that they have tremendous difficulties in acting in time, in deciding in time, because they remember all their bad, failed decisions in the past, and therefore hesitate to make a decision in the present.

La série des colloques « HyperUrbain » propose des réflexions sur la conception de la ville « sociale » (sociale ici voudra dire une conception centrée sur l'utilisateur de l'espace urbain) où les modalités de communication, de sociabilité, d'apprentissage, de transaction, de travail, etc. passent par des différentes formes d'(auto)régulation, dont un nombre croissant repose sur les Technologies d'Information et de Communication (TIC).

The italian magazine WIRED asked us to draw a map based on the scenarios developed by the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto to help the reader in the net of ideas and hypothesis built by 7000 influencers from all over the world.

We're a community of open source developers and designers dedicated to opening up our government to make it more transparent, accountable and responsible. We need your help.

The pay gap between executives and the average American worker has always been pretty big, and seems to have increased as the world's economy grows. But with the recent recession bringing the most desperate financial conditions the world has seen since the Great Depression, one could be excused for expecting this gap to be reduced.

Robbing a bank is as simple as putting pen to paper. Here are actual demand notes used in successful and unsuccessful unarmed bank robberies - - accompanied by a photo of each robber and appended with details about the robbery itself.

It is heartening that the yearning for learning is the most powerful of all human cravings

Human development is about putting people at the centre of development. It is about people realizing their potential, increasing their choices and enjoying the freedom to lead lives they value. Since 1990, annual Human Development Reports have explored challenges including poverty, gender, democracy, human rights, cultural liberty, globalization, water scarcity and climate change.

you said: “Especially given the by-now-clichéd recognition that we’ve decisively become an urban species”

It is indeed very interesting to think about urban systems design given there was a major move toward cities. That said I have the feeling that this move comes with, at least, three issues:

1. access to the “thought” urban environment,

2. the space left where 50% of the population is still living,

3. the space of this growth

There are many areas in the world where the growth of the cities is made by people without access or a limited access to the thought urban environment. Poor people living in slums or just in a space which is not part of the work of urban planner per say. In a recent exhibition about slums I went, it was very interesting to see that the organic structure of the slums was making possible for the individuals to create a rich and meaningful space, driving sometimes to less criminality than more traditional areas of the city. The slum is a forced collective creative space for survival.

The rest of the population, the 50% living in deserted areas are the forgotten of this story. It’s indeed more “fun”, interesting for researchers, sociologists to observe and think about the density in urban space (richness of interactions) more than the low level of activities in the “countryside”. Though there are equal challenges there in terms of design and space organization, access to services, etc.

Finally, is it really cities which are growing? What we call urban space often relates to the city center, but I have the feeling that the growth is happening in the in-between space (suburbs), which is again a complete disaster in terms of design, even more so in rich countries. The private space is becoming a space of non-creativity, dead areas of non activities. Someone, who wants to start a small business in between two buildings on the grass of a random suburb of a rich city, will not last for very long. Complete different dynamic than the slum where unregulated areas give the opportunity of creative solutions for surviving or living.

De sorte qu’Internet est devenu, concernant cette question de la transmission esthétique, exactement l’inverse de ce qu’il était: un espace dont il faut échapper, où il ne faut pas être.

44.5% of people use the Tube map to walk round London.

a rue est un “texte social” qui mêle signaux (simples, systèmes binaires), signes (complexes, systèmes ouverts) et symboles (stables et porteurs de sens inépuisables) en des proportions équilibrées et dans des combinaisons infiniment variées, créant richesse, banalité ou ennui.

a. This is only just true, in the last few years. So for almost all of human history, most of us have not lived in cities. This would suggest that we're pretty well adapted to not living in cities. I'm not calling for a retreat to a bucolic paradise, but I'm saying this is worth thinking about.

Since I cannot tell you the final truth about the roots of the Finnish people, I shall tell you about the search for those roots. It is only natural that we search for our beginnings and use those beginnings to construct our identity. But why do we look to roots for our identity? This is the question I shall try to answer. I will use scientific and other public discourse as my material.

Today, the sexuality is a taboo for elderly generations.

During my investigation, I have observed many prejudices about this topic in our society.

However, sexuality is always active over 70 years old.

I have revaled three specifics aims to start my project :

- Stimulate Sexual desire of elders into rest-home

- Educate practical nurses and students

- Sensitize general public about sexuality of elderly people

You can watch the differents ideas I suggested

to resolve these 3 problems in Diploma's part.

The Reality Checking Device is a poetic information machine that stands in the tradition of the ancient Greek oracle. It confronts people with their own self and their personal anxieties. It helps to identify all those scenarios we really do not need to fear – despite being told the opposite by mass media.

Si l’on ajoute à cela la récente autorisation de la photographie à la BnF, on se couche satisfait… en attendant la prochaine étape : la Bundesarchiv a déjà versé 100 000 photos dans Wikimedia Commons, la base de données de Wikipédia, et la deutsche Fotothek 250 000. Alors, à quand la BnF, la RMN, les AN et toutes les AD ?

Waste is part of life. Human and animal bodies produce natural waste, whereas societies produce synthetic waste. While we cannot control the level of natural waste as its production is an organic part of biological survival, we can drastically reduce the production of synthetic waste. Natural and synthetic waste come in two varieties - reusable and nonreusable. The aim of a sustainable waste economy is to reuse as much waste as possible, even to the point of reducing waste surplus to zero.

À la recherche d’une asymptote : Pour ne pas subir les contradictions, il faut composer en recherchant l’optimisation dans la mesure *des* possibles.

Today almost everybody has at least one digital representation in one of the numerous social communities, like Flickr, Facebook and MySpace.

Progress is a celebration of how the human spirit for innovation - combined with technology - can enrich the lives of individuals, communities, and the world at large.

It's a story that taken Lonely Planet all over the globe, highlighting how groundbreaking mobile technology is connecting people to what matters, fueling the imagination, and empowering them to progress in life.

There are also no such things as “digital natives.” Just because many of today’s youth are growing up in a society dripping with technology does not mean that they inherently know how to use it. They don’t. Most of you have a better sense of how to get information from Google than the average youth. Most of you know how to navigate privacy settings of a social media tool better than the average teen. Understanding technology requires learning.

There are over 2 billion literate, mobile phone subscribers in the developing world, many living on less than $5 a day.

Corporations pay people to accomplish millions of simple text-based tasks.

txteagle enables these tasks to be completed via text message by ordinary people around the globe.

It's legal to print your own money in the U.S. as long as you don't re-create or deface the dollar, according to the Treasury Department. The Torch would be subject to the same taxes as the dollar.

since the Japanese media is not allowed to talk about trends in terms of socioeconomic class or subculture, Koakuma Ageha’s popularity gave the impression that all young women, no matter the family background, have suddenly clamored to work nights in Kabukicho.