by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 15, 2013 | Architecture, Design, Industrial Design, Innovation, Production, Shigeru Ban, Social Engagement, Zaha Hadid
Nothing against the design visionary of Zaha Hadid but all this global starchitecture looks like rich people’s toys in the wake of disasters like Typhoon Haiyan.This is no time for designers to try to outshine one another with glittery sculptural-building...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 8, 2013 | Architecture, Art, Industrial Design, Maker, Neuroplasticity, Newspapers, Scale, Sculpture, Sketchup
I read two articles in the old-timey newspapers this morning, one revealing that speaking another language may help delay dementia and the other suggesting that sitting for eight hours a day can shave off five years of a typical adult’s lifespan.So after...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 13, 2013 | Architecture, Art, Collaboration, Dance, Innovation, Installation, New Forms Festival, Perception, Performance, Public Art, Sculpture, Street Art, Vancouver, Visual Field
You can thank Europeans’ dwindling Christian faith for a sensory bombardment that’s taking over Europe. The poor attendance at all the churches and cathedrals has been a boon to a new totally immersive art-architecture experience of sound and image,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 12, 2013 | Architecture, Climate Change, Collaboration, Creative Process, Innovation, Inspiration, Invention, Maquette, Motivation, Process, Public Art, Rhonda Weppler, Trevor Mahovsky, Vancouver
Pretty, and pretty alarming stripes show future water levels. All the recent natural and unnatural disasters in this country — city-paralyzing changing-climate-induced floods in Calgary and then Toronto, an oil-tanker train disaster that derailed an entire...
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