This blog, BLDGBLOG by Geoff Manaugh, is very good.
I suspect his book may be worth getting.
He will be speaking at the Parallax conference in Melbourne in late April/early May.
I was particularly warmed by this post on heating via cremation.

John Thackara asks:
What would architects design, if they did not design buildings? What would designers design, if they did not design products, or posters?
He is not convinced that architects and other designers should limit their capacities to design-for-production, or for individual expression.

Like a white swan landing on the reflective lake at just the right moment, this exhibition is coming. Following my earlier post, Extreme Textiles, I just stumbled across this post on the Design Boom blog
The site for this delicious looking exhibition is here: Tokyo fibre 09 Senseware
It’s pure magic. check it out.
I especially like the filter mask moulded into a monkey’s nose/mouth.
Interesting how white almost everything in the exhibition is. This is a common property given to newness: as if new forms/ideas await colouring in…. still clean and …

Eva Vertes looks to the future of medicine | Video on TED.com.
This is a talk by a 19yr old who is trying to find a way to approach cancer in radically new ways. It had me returning to a future fiction story I started to write in the early-mid 90s, in which the capacity to develop cancerous cells had become a ‘talent’, because we had worked out how to manipulate cancer in desirable directions once it appeared. So, for instance, if you developed bowel cancer, you might direct this cancer …