LED luminosi a Torino

throwies1, originally uploaded by brucesflickr.

Bruce Sterling si aggira ancora per TORINO

Link: The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World, 2008.

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inkwell.vue.317 : Bruce Sterling: State of the World, 2008
#2 of 19: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Tue 1 Jan 08 04:07

Well, we were off to a rocking start here in Torino when New Years Eve
was cancelled for 2008. Instead of fireworks, booze and public
hijinks, the Mayor commissioned a solemn march of mourning for seven
laborers who have died in a local industrial accident.

So I was out on the streets last night... they were eerie. The only
people hitting the bottle and partying were the local Arabs, who were
blasting rai music and throwing glass and fireworks out of their
tenement windows... There were also a few puzzled tourists who didn't
seem to get the last-minute bulletin.

The rest of the population seemed to fall in line as one with the
wishes of the Mayor and the Archbishop. They just shuttered the show,
end of story.

You always hear tell from other Italians that the Turinese are a
solemn, reserved and disciplined lot.... I wrote that story off
because, by American standards, it's hard to find any fraction of the
Italian populace that comes across as genuinely solemn and reserved.
But to cancel New Years -- even cancel *private parties* -- is really a
surprising and impressive gesture.

So: instead of starting 2008 with some bubbly orgy of prosecco and
lambrusco, I went home and I started work on a new short story. This
is the only time in my 53-year lifespan that I spent New Years' Eve
working.

And you know, I think I may be better off for it. Here in Italy, I
learn something new every day.

[...]

Nation-states seem bewildered by the contemporary political and
economic climate. Still, there are lots of urban areas that seem
lively. New York looks downright dynamic. There are a lot of words to
describe Los Angeles, but "quaint" certainly isn't one of them.

Here in Italy the national government is the despair of the populace
(to judge by the press coverage), but Torino's got a lot going on as
an urban center. They're not going to lead in national politics -- at
least, I don't *think* so -- but in terms of grabbing an aging, vacant,
screwed-up industrial infrastructure and retrofitting it successfully
for new conditions, Torino really *does* lead. Torino's full of
opportunity.

I don't think anybody wants to become a Chinese Communist any more --
except for a few cocaine-crazed Maoist weirdos in the Andes -- but
there really does seem to be a Chinese model-of-development now. In
the Balkans, in Europe, you can see it at work. It's very
street-level, very under-the-legal-radar -- it comes out of car trunks
and off the backs of bicycles, and the labels are dodgy and its all
sold for the "china-price."

Torino's got the biggest outdoor market in Europe, a place called the
"Porta Palazzo" -- Chinese, Rumanian emigres, Arabs, a few Nigerians
and Eritreans and such... the economic vitality there is awesome.
Turin is a chilly, Alpine-foothill kind of place... and there are a lot
of poor people here, mostly the emigres... yet *nobody is cold.*
Nobody's blue and shivering. Because they're all warmly dressed, in
new, cheap, Chinese clothes. Boots, hats, gloves, mufflers, they're
crazily cheap.

Ragged clothes were the signature of poverty for centuries. That
former reality is just gone now. The fancier clothes here are also
made in China, but with more IP protection. I don't know if that's
"leadership" -- but it sure is transformative.

ARTIFICIAL.DUMMIES from todo.to.it on Vimeo.

Torino Geodesign - map

Torino Geodesign - map, originally uploaded by Interaction Design Lab.

INFO

torino IED bored

IMG_6421, originally uploaded by IED Torino - FOTO3.

Christmas in Turin | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com

Bruce Sterling cita ancora torino su WIRED!

Christmas in Turin | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com: ": WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL - TORINO 2008.

Afterville. Astronave Torino

Turin Spaceship Company

When

06.10.2007 - 06.01.2008

Where

MIAAO Museo Internazionale delle Arti Applicate Oggi via Maria Vittoria, 5 Torino

'This is the first event in “Afterville”, a series dedicated to the relationships between the arts of design and the imaginative power of science fiction.

The exhibition features architectural, pictorial, multi-technique and multimedia works from the 1950s to the present. Curated by Enzo Biffi Gentili, Luisa Perlo and Undesign of Michele Bortolami and Tommaso Delmastro with Fabrizio Accatino and Massimo Teghille.Off Congress Official Event, UIA World Architects' Congress Torino 2008.'"

Backstage Video Navarra

Backstage Video Navarra, originally uploaded by Interaction Design Lab.

Anche questo succede a torino. Solo che pochi torinesi si accorgono che qualcosa e' cambiato.

the king of...

the king of..., originally uploaded by microcippa.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/microcippa/ probabilmente collegato con: http://todo.to.it

Artificial Dummies

Artificial Dummies, originally uploaded by TODO.TO.IT.

le porte palatine post-umane

Giuseppe Culicchia

trainyard7, originally uploaded by brucesflickr.

Lo scrittore di "Torino casa mia" in giro per torino con Bruces Sterling.

entropy requires no maintenance.

trainyard11, originally uploaded by brucesflickr.

vanishing rivoli

vanishing rivoli, originally uploaded by matteo::v::.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21391541@N07/
matteo::v:: dice:

project:
vanishing world

ispirate alla deriva situazionista e al teatro immaginista di Debord
le foto di vanishing world sono registrazioni psicogeografiche,
espressioni evenemenziali
di moti interiori in uno spazio
sempre antropizzato


location:
Rivoli
Residenza Sabauda fuori le mura della Vecchia Torino, oggi sede di un importante MMuseo di Arte Contemporanea

illusion in the street

illusion in the street, originally uploaded by regolare.

skyscraper in Turin

skyscraper in Turin, originally uploaded by udronotto.

Progetto Udronotto constructions
Arch.: Lucia Forte
Piano attico donato dalla committenza
a Udronotto and family.

gustopsichedelico

gustopsichedelico, originally uploaded by brucesflickr.

"The future is where we go to die."

futura, originally uploaded by brucesflickr.

Sempre Bruces Sterling

PANE

PANE, originally uploaded by borgmarc.

Signs 2

Signs 2, originally uploaded by maoto98.

Camminando per Torino

Inserita da maoto98 il 9 mar '07 13.40.
Autore qui sotto:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maoto98/ <-
maoto98

2009torino

2009torino, originally uploaded by borgmarc.

http://www.torino2009.org/ENG/home.aspx

Majorette

Majorette, originally uploaded by borgmarc.

ricordate le olimpiadi ?

il cane diavolo/asino visto dal cyberpunk

dogpasteup, originally uploaded by brucesflickr.

Again Bruce Sterling in TURIN, eyes wide open

Autobus come modellini, un diorama.

buses and legs, originally uploaded by loungerie.

Una foto di (loungerie) : http://www.flickr.com/photos/loungerie/

artistl ights

artistlights, originally uploaded by brucesflickr.

Bruces Sterling a spasso per Torino ha scattato questa foto.

Sua Maestà La Dora ### Her Majesty The Dora

Sua Maestà La Dora ### Her Majesty The Dora, originally uploaded by man_drake.

DA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21906850@N00/

torino in curva

torino in curva, originally uploaded by borgmarc.

Riposto questa foto. Io la trovo bellissima: chi si loda si imbroda dicono.

A me piace lo stesso !

Technology Review: The Interoperation

Technology Review: The Interoperation: "November/December 2007 The Interoperation Architecture had given way to software management. So he turned buildings into construction programs. By Bruce Sterling"

A fantastic SF short story by Bruce Sterling.

spireandcrane - lo sguardo di un cyberpunk e designer guru su Torino

spireandcrane, originally uploaded by brucesflickr.

Bruces Sterling in giro per torino ( probabilmente per: Torino, "World Design Capital of 2008."
www.dexigner.com/design_news/4784/ )ha scattato questa foto

Come un razzo pronta al decollo!

la mole antonelliana, originally uploaded by yaari.

la mole antonelliana, bellissima con le montagne e pronta a partire.

foto di yaari: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yaari/

Un treno senza binari

Un treno senza binari, originally uploaded by alexxius.

FOTO DA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexxius/

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