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Author: carlobattisti
Home again, after three days as a "sponge" in Seattle, absorbing a fascinating mix of technical knowledge, sustainability principles and visions of the future. A Living Future, like the name of the ninth annual “unconference” organized by the International Living Future Institute. Architects, landscape architects, engineers, ecologists, manufacturers, and other professionals focused on sustainability in … Continue reading Highlights from LF15.
After one year, I'm back, this time in Seattle, at the Living Future unconference 2015. As always, eager to learn, to exchange views with the participants, to listen to the keynote speakers and best-practices, togo through the Living Building Challenge. The time for “Do less harm” has passed. It’s time for the beginning of being; … Continue reading Place and Community. The LF unConference.
Il Super Bowl è l'incontro finale che assegna il titolo di campione della National Football League (NFL), la lega professionistica statunitense di football americano. Dato che gli americani pensano (a ragione) di essere in assoluto i migliori in questo sport (è lo sport nazionale, insieme con il baseball, il basket e l'hockey), chi vince quest'incontro viene considerato il campione … Continue reading A una iarda dalla gloria.
Il Gruppo di Lavoro Indoor Environmental Quality - IEQ In Europa si trascorre mediamente circa il 90% della propria giornata in ambienti interni: di conseguenza la qualità di tali ambienti ha un’influenza significativa sul benessere, sulla produttività e sulla qualità della vita. Traffico, smog ed emissioni di CO2 degli edifici sono tra le cause principali … Continue reading Non è aria fritta …
Cosa vuol dire "approccio sistemico"? Un approccio sistemico si basa su una visione complessiva ed integrata della realtà. E' evidente che un processo decisionale su cruciali questioni ambientali, sociali ed economiche per lo sviluppo di un territorio debba basarsi su un approccio di questo tipo. Un caso esemplare lo racconta Edoardo Vigna su Sette del Corriere … Continue reading Perdere la sabbia.
While I was watching on TV the football match between Borussia Dortmund and Juventus Turin, there was a recurring commercial by Nissan claiming «Innovation that excites». The word “innovation” inside an advertising? Great. So I began wondering, how often the concept of innovation is intentionally used by companies to attract more customers? Moreover, what type of … Continue reading Innovation that …
The Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) is an instrument of the European Commission, developed under the Lisbon Strategy and revised after the adoption of the Europe 2020 Strategy to provide a comparative assessment of the innovation performance of EU Member States. Together with the Regional Innovation Scoreboard and the pilot European Public Sector Innovation Scoreboard (under development), … Continue reading We, moderate innovators.
It’s time to imagine a living future and a world of living buildings. The Living Buildings Challenge is a philosophy, certification and advocacy tool for projects to move beyond merely being less bad and to become truly regenerative. The Challenge defines the most advanced measure of sustainability in the built environment possible today and acts … Continue reading REGENERATION. The Conference.
L'intervista di Franz Magazine del 03.03.2015 a cura di Mauro Sperandio, su ReGeneration, Living Building Challenge e Macro Design Studio. Regeneration è il primo concorso di progettazione interamente basato sul protocollo Living Building Challenge™, un modo di pensare e costruire orientato alla sostenibilità, l'unico criterio intelligente per abitare il futuro. REGENERATION si svolgerà dal 15 al … Continue reading (Sognando un) Living Future.
Irresistible article by Ryan Bradley on The New York Times Magazine of 12 Nov 2014 (thanks to Cynthia K. Fioretti for highlighting it) on a gallery of 19 technologies we lost. Good ideas never disappear forever; the Stirling engine didn’t pan out in the Industrial Revolution, for example, but it can keep the lights on for a small … Continue reading A brief history of failure.
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