CONFERENCE SENTIENT CITY : ville de la connaissance et urbanisme open-source

Une bonne partie de ce que je sais aujourd’hui sur les processus collaboratifs, l’urbanisme open source et la communication en réseau de l’architecture et du design vient de Madrid et, plus spécifiquement, des réseaux autour de Domenico Di Siena, architecte, consultant et chercheur italien travaillant à Madrid depuis des années. Avec lui j’ai fondé, en 2006, le mouvement Algomas, développé le projet de cartographie collaborative meipi en 2007. En 2010, j’ai rejoint son équipe à Ecosistema Urbano, où on a travaillé ensemble au network design de dreamhamar. Continue reading CONFERENCE SENTIENT CITY : ville de la connaissance et urbanisme open-source

COMMENT DEMARRER UN PROJET D’ARCHITECTURE OPEN SOURCE

Le mois dernier, invité par l’association Assaut Vert, j’ai participé à une conference titrée ARCHITECTURE PARAMÉTRIQUE ET ARCHITECTURE PARTICIPATIVE [PDF]. Entre autres, j’ai présenté le projet d’architecture open source AIR TREE COMMONS, auquel j’ai participé en collaboration avec Ecosistema Urbano. Or, dans le cadre du festival du “vert, ça y est!” (du 21 au 25 mai 2012), l’association Assaut Vert réalise une plateforme de travail à l’échelle 1:1 pour l’école de Versailles et souhaite la rendre disponible, modifiable et repliable dans d’autres écoles d’architectures, selon l’approche OPEN SOURCE.
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CTRLZ Architecture to build the first shopping mall for #openculture in #Madrid

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We are glad to announce that CTRLZ Architectures has been chosen to design the renovation project for the old Cinemas of Plaza del Carmen in Madrid (image above).

For the past few years, we have been deeply involved in open culture diffusion and we strongly believe in architecture as a creative commons production. This is one of the reasons why we are so happy to have been commissioned by the Chinese company Xiu-Shui to reconvert the Cinemas into the first so-called “copy” and open culture mall that will pretty soon be open to the public.

Due to a great cooperative relationship between the municipalities of Shanghai and Madrid, that was crafted at the meetings which took place in Shanghai during the Expo 2010, Xiu-Shui has announced that the first Open Culture Shopping Center, to be named “LaSeda Market”, will be inaugurated in Madrid, Spain, in 2011.

Share the world is the motto used by Xiu-Shui to explain the philosophy behind the operation. As announced on their news page, «Silk Market malls are places where people can share the world, in which the different companies that promote the open culture as business model will have their own spaces. Share the world means open culture and open culture means share the world. Inside LaSeda Market, customers and users will be the same.»

These are really great news for us,  as this purposes totally fit with our engagements in architecture and social innovation.

We think that copyrights are obsolete and that we are quickly moving toward a “free of charge” exchange of any kind of information or product.

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The open spaces of the center (image above) are sponsored by open culture companies and a speedy Internet connection will fuse this open space with the entire global Web. There, you will be able to find products of the most famous open culture companies such as Mozilla, Ubuntu, Spotify, Youtube, Android, Bubok, Skype, Twitter, Creative Commons and much more.

For more information please visit the madrid #openculture mall website at madrid.mercadolaseda.com

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Xiu-Shui is also one of the sponsor of the event “Noche en Blancothat will take place in Madrid on Saturday 11th of September 2010.
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