Designers, urbanists, public policy advocates, and any others are who would join the Urban Technology Program at the University of Michigan are “hopeful monsters” & “strange creatures.” Meet their leader.
Guest: Bryan Boyer, Director, Urban Technology Program, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan // Co-founder, Dash Marshall
Guest: Bryan Boyer, Director, Urban Technology Program, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan // Co-founder, Dash Marshall
Show Notes
Intro: “Hopeful Monsters,” by Charlie Nieland
Discussed:
- Architecture firms grow a spine (?) over Russia v. Ukraine: Is it a moral stand, or admission they won’t get paid? And yet, many are still working for the Saudis, on NEOM and such projects.
- Helsinki Design Lab
- Brickstarter
- The Most Important Mile
- Imagining Future Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicles
- People Party - Generating scale figures for renderings that look like their communities
- Brute-Force Architecture - “Look at all these things that we didn’t choose” >> Exhaust failure. If architecture labor was more expensive, would that be possible?
- George Gilder and the Early Cloud – “Conserve what is expensive, waste what is abundant.”
- Architechie
- REEF
- WSJ – REEF bought the wrong lots
- Renew Newcastle (Australia)
- Participatory City (London)
Outro: “Freedom of Choice,” by Devo
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