With the rising of a new global world, this Project it’s build on the growing use of livecams, today they are applied more and more for dubious and undefined uses.
Using this resource to environmental purposes, can be extreme usefully, since it can alert for the misuse of planet resources.
The project consists in a room, on witch will be displayed, by users choice, webcam images collected from around the world. Placed in spots that can be considered as an example of attacks made to the planet earth
Examples of this, may come from melting icebergs to forest devastation, or even open sky dumpsters.
João Hebil . Camila Cossmerlli . Nuno Lourenço
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... “MTV Switch: In Your Hands” access on April 1, 2008.
Mtv’s global warming. Any movie reference about ecology must pass trough Al Gore’s movie “An inconvenient truth” about his conferences. Never the less, MTV has able to make an interesting campaign, it refers the importance of environmental preservation in a simple but direct way.
GUGGENHEIM, Davis; “An Inconvenient Truth”,com Al Gore; 2006.
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... GAVIRIA, Geoffrey & GIBSON, Matthew. “Dead on Arrival”
acessed on Mars 31 2008
An interactive comic book, it’s a noir influenced story, based upon the 30’s North American movies. Although it’s not an original concept, it’s important to refer that it’s an on-line comic. Presuming that soon it’s possible to access a regular PC using trough recycling energies, this can be a valuable resource.
LOURO, Luís [2003]. “O Corvo”. Lisboa: Edições Asa.
“Luis louro is back, with the most expected sequel of the Vincent’s adventures. With 30 years, living on Alfama (Lisbon’s typical neiborhood ) , mailman profession. Vicente suffers a strange metamorphism, transforming it self in the Crow (Corvo in the original) losing is natural shyness. Believing that “one’s destiny depends on his beliefs and ghosts”, he imagines it self as a hero that saves other, when in reality he can’t even saves himself…
The crow is a deeply Portuguese, he’s a reflection of a naïve intervention that each one of us has in the story of our streets.
Translated from the site: http://www.webboom.pt/ficha.asp?ID=96433 (acessed on April 31, 2008).
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... MCDONOUGH, William & BRAUNGART Michael.“Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things” acessed on Mars 21, 2008.
The concept of cradle to cradle was developed by Braungart, a german biologist, And McDonough, Greenpeace activist. More than a concept it’s also a quality symbol attributed to products ecological developed. The products this symbol are extremely profitable, since they reuse 100% of his parts. The publication of this book it’s a living example of this concept, besides the pages are 100% made in recycled paper, but also can be reused. Another example, it’s the Ford factory ( acessed ate April 1, 2008) that allowed to reduce significantly production costs, tanks to this concept. .
PAIVA, Maíra. “Design de Móveis” acceed at 1 Abril 2008.
Maíra Paiva, is a graduated in design by the design school of UEMG (Brazil).
Has participated in important national and international projects, as the 16th Eco-marathon Shell and Anglogold. She is an expert in eco-design. Her blog gathers design objects of ecological interest. The “Eco-chique” puff and the “Pet furniture” are objects to consider
