hedonistic sustainability

the social side of sustainability planning

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Dominant urban (globalized) cockroach species.

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Reuse portable pool.  GIANT, USA 2017. 

Click to picture to see the website with a bunch of and cool / functional modifications to shipping containers.

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This video sets out 6 principles to an “attractive” city.  Clear and consciously presented. 

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Cool road mural - Glasgow

Looks fun really fun.

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Ayazma Mosque -  Istanbul, Turkey

The Ottomans built birdhouses on the facades of mosques, madrasahs or palaces that had sunlight and no wind, at a height that people couldn't reach. They also placed small plates on graves from which birds could drink water.

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New York bars, restaurants turn into daytime offices in co-working boom

Offering tables gives them a new source of revenue during the workday, before they open for diners

Reimaging spaces and creating co-working places.

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Postmodern industrial. Ljubljana, Slovenia. September 2014.

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Art at / in transit stops makes the voyage nicer.

Bird Laid Bare  By: Rita MacDonald Installed: 2001

Avenue J station, NYC, USA

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Wrapper (2012) is a permanent work of art by Jacqueline Poncelet at Edgware Road station in London, UK. Created in vitreous enamel, the artwork clads the building and perimeter wall in a patterned grid. Each pattern communicates a different part of the surrounding area, resulting from the images Poncelet developed through her research over a period of three years prior to installation. Located in the urban setting of central London, Wrapper intersects a varied landscape of buildings. Resembling an immense patchwork, Wrapper weaves together imagery taken from local history and the surrounding environment. In Wrapper, and throughout Poncelet’s artistic practice, patterns and colours are employed in deliberate arrangements. “A pattern not only speaks of other places, but of changes in our culture and the passage of time”, says Poncelet. This permanent, integrated artwork is highly responsive to its local context and open to interpretation. In conceiving the artwork, the artist considered the way it will be viewed by residents and transit users alike.

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This Simple Colorful Seating Was Added To Make Sitting On Stairs Next To A River More Comfortable

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NIGHT MAYOR: Political top dog in the fight for rights, protections and a growing economy for the the other  9 to 5 

image: @ the RoXY club, Amsterdam, September 1988

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MLK JR. PARK STONE VAULT, AUSTIN, USA 2016

Modern use of the Catalan vault roof.

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Catalonia vault roof -  Barcelona, Spain.

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Example of a SKATE DOT Seattle, USA.  One-off skateable pieces (stairs, rails, benches, sculpture) that carve out intentional spaces for skateboarding, placed between areas with skate parks to form a network.

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The WoZoCo apartments ( also known as Oklahoma)  Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1997.

Responding to site constraints creativity bloomed.  Caution to planners to respect zoning, and react creatively rather than simply seeking variances. 

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A farm designed to restore oceans and planet health, whilst providing food for people.

Since there is no need for fresh water, fertilizer, or pesticides, restorative ocean farming is a sustainable form of food production.

As a food crop, seaweed is rich in nutrients such as protein, calcium, and vitamin-C. Recent studies demonstrate that a network of seaweed farms the size of Washington State could produce all of the dietary protein needs of the human population.

The farms use restorative and foundational species that provide habitats for hundreds of marine and bird species; creating natural reef systems that harbor hundreds of wild species.

The farm model and technologies are open source.

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Calligraffiti | Via

Amid Cairo’s brick buildings and heaping piles of trash is a sprawling work of art, which, at first, looks messy and incoherent.

But when you stand on the nearby hillside and read the spray-painted Arabic “calligraffiti,” as its creator Tunisian-French artist eL Seed calls it, the message reads loud and clear: “If one wants to see the light of the sun, he must wipe his eyes.”

The quote represents the importance of withholding judgment of people just because of their circumstances, says eL Seed, who first visited the community a few years ago. He’s called the piece “Perception” for just that reason, hoping to get people to see past the area’s physical appearance.

The entire piece took three weeks to complete, and eL Seed says it was done in total secrecy from the Egyptian government due to the country’s strict laws forbidding artistic expression.