Category: Future Design
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Twenty Basic Principles of a New Green Politics, by Alan N. Shapiro
Basic Principle #1: Universal publicizing of ecological disasters accomplishes their perpetuation. The disasters that we are facing in the areas of ecology, energy and the environment are well-known and they are truly horrific. However, the fact that everyone knows about these disasters is much more a factor contributing to nothing constructive been done about them…
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Towards a New Green Politics, by Alan N. Shapiro
On October 11, 2012, I gave a lecture called “Towards a New Green Politics” at the Digital Art department of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Here is the Abstract of the talk, and some of my lecture notes. “The disasters that we are faced with in the areas of ecology, energy and the…
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The Plane of the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro, and Congetture minime sullo spazi-tempo, by Pier Luigi Capucci
Zeit/Raum – Excerpts from our texts for the Ars Electronica FUTURELAB art installation in the new Vienna International Airport Dall’Ars Electronica FUTURELAB ci sono stati commissionati dei testi per una installazione artistica presso il nuovo terminale dell’Aeroporto di Vienna. Il tema dell’installazione era “Zeit/Raum” (“Tempo/Spazio”), ed è stato realizzato anche un e-book interattivo con tutti…
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The Car of the Future, by Alan N. Shapiro and Alan Cholodenko
co-author: Alan Cholodenko In November 2008, Alan N. Shapiro was invited by Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany to speak about his ideas about “the car of the future.” He spoke in front of an audience of people from the Human-Machine Interface Dept. and and the Infotainment Dept. This text was written as an accompaniment to that…
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Anticipating the Future through Knowledge of the Fiction in Social Reality, by Alan N. Shapiro
I was the keynote speaker at the conference on “Das Wissen der Zukunft” (“Knowledge of the Future”) that took place at the University of Vienna on November 4-5, 2011. My topic was “Anticipating the Future through Knowledge of the Fiction in Social Reality.” I have heard a lot of statements and discussions about the dialogue…
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General Patton Memorial Museum
General Patton Memorial Museum 62-510 Chiriaco Road, Chiriaco Summit, California 92201 “A Military History Museum With Exhibits from World War I through the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars And our Tank Yard with Armored Vehicles from World War II through Vietnam” In spite of the above self-description written by the museum itself, I felt that the…
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Morality in Europe Today
“Morality in Europe today,” wrote Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil, “is herd animal morality.” On April 22, 2010, there took place an extraordinary creative event in Dusseldorf, Germany – at the KIT (Kunst im Tunnel) art space – called “Morality in Europe Today” (Zeitgenössische Moralvorstellung in Europe). The event was curated and organized by Gertrud…
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Beaubourg, Quai Branly, and the Simulacrum of Jean Baudrillard, by René Capovin
Although I am not a big Quentin Tarantino fan, I absolutely loved Inglourious Basterds. One of the things that I loved about it is that four languages – French, English, German, and Italian – all play important roles in the film. So now for some quadrophonic Baudrillard. We begin with an announcement in French:…
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Die Bibliothek der Zukunft – The Library of the Future, von/by Alan N. Shapiro
Presented at the Wikipedia Critical Point of View Conference in Leipzig, Germany, Sept. 26, 2010 Die Bibliothek der Zukunft – The Library of the Future in German and English At this conference, I was on a panel together with Sabria David. Sabria is an expert in value-oriented business communication and corporate brand development. She is…
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The Car of the Future, folding study, by Nick Pugh
All images © Copyright Nick Pugh and Alan N. Shapiro, 2010
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The Car of the Future, alternate modes, by Nick Pugh
All images © Copyright Nick Pugh and Alan N. Shapiro, 2010
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The Car of the Future, detail sketches, by Nick Pugh
All images © Copyright Nick Pugh and Alan N. Shapiro, 2010
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The Car of the Future, more sketches, by Nick Pugh
All images © Copyright Nick Pugh and Alan N. Shapiro, 2010
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Sketches of the Car of the Future, by Nick Pugh
Here is a sampling of 8 of the 34 sketches made by Nick Pugh for the concept of the Car of the Future as a shapeshifter. All images © Copyright Nick Pugh and Alan N. Shapiro, 2010
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The Car of the Future is a Virtual Reality Game Platform
Paul Virilio is a French theorist of technology whose work has focused on architecture, art, transportation, war, urban planning, and the cinema. Virilio’s central concept is speed, as in the title of his major early work Speed and Politics (1977). He is also a theorist of accidents and crashes. Virilio argues that military technologies and…