After some personal experiences with debts over the last couple of years, my personal interest in the monetary system has gone up. I think we should educate ourselves better on how banks work. Since in the end it has such huge effects on society as a whole.
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Just by a random internet wandering I stumbled upon La Citta Mobile. A project/collective based in Eindhoven which stimulate creative disciplines to meet and share ideas on how construct and deconstruct a temporary city. Hence the title la citta mobile, the mobile city. (The yearly exodus of Dutch designers to Milan for the Salone del Mobile is clearly leaving its traces)
La Citta Mobile is currently exhibiting on the Dutch Design Week 2010 (until 31th of October) — which I hope to visit. On their blog I found an interesting video, of which I’ve pasted a short trailer below. The full documentary can be found on powerofcommunity.org.
Read MoreVery interesting view on the recent crisis of the economical system guided by neo-communist Slavoj Žižek.
Read MoreThanks to Nielsvl for pointing this one out to me. This gets our blood pumping. Forget Berlin, I’ll say Detroit here we come!
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Read MoreIt is since months I’m following with great curiosity the social/sustainability movements which are being formed around the world. From ‘guerilla gardening‘ to Beppe Grillo talking about auto-producing energy and selling abundant energy back to the ‘network’. Today I’ve found a documentary by the ‘transition towns‘ movement. A transition town being a town designed to be ‘resilient’ against oil depletion, and which has a significant lower carbon emissions. From what I’ve understood the movement is about sharing information and techniques on how to establish a transition town — in the hope to change the world.
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