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Berlin, Germany

Design 101

Our "Design 101" course has been selected to be inthe final list.

One of the ten MOOC that will be funded by

Iversity.

Here some more (and to enroll, if you like): https://moocfellowship.org/

Thanks to all of you. For your votes, for spreading

the news around, energy and passion!
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Autobahn, All the Way

to Berlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68C-r9kSLNE

Ok. This is quite (moreless) set.

Heading to Berlin for "Design 101" prize ceremony.

Leaving Milan on the 18th in the evening. Cutthrough the Swiss cheese, Chur, Bregenz, Ulm, all

the way to Leipzig.

Have you ever been in Leipzig? None of us had!

Mario Mattioda will guide us through Leipzig art,culture and whatsoever.

Then Bauhaus in Dessau, Einsteinturm in Potsdam,

Spandau, Tempelhof, a couple of Taut's siedlungen

and there we are

20th and 21th of various workshops, things and

dings in Berlin and back to Italy by the 22nd.

Assuming we don't drown in the Donau. Or Rhine.

Or both.

Who joins?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68C-r9kSLNE

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Olukz, Turkey

Barbara Ghellakeeps sending us her visual diary.

Now, they are deep into Turkey, soon they will

reach Iran.

You can follow the #milanbangkokon two

#fiatpandatrip, following @bghella on Instagram.

This architecture I like

very very much!
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Fischerdorf, Germany

Boop

Regarding our trip to Berlin, bring a life jacket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQrsCxAYJ2g

Image, courtesy of Lucia Giuliano.

Brussels, Belgium

In Bruxelles, Walking

Around with prof. Aprile (1)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brussels-Belgium/108429795855423?ref=streamhttps://www.facebook.com/lucia.giuliano.35https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQrsCxAYJ2ghttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Fischerdorf-Thuringen-Germany/109686492395733?ref=stream

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This is pretty cool, isn'it? The Galerie Ravenstein

and her very fancy ceiling

http://www.galerieravenstein.com/

Gare de Bruxelles-Central Station Brussel-Centraal

Never understood the relevance of Victor Horta in

modern architecture.

Anyway, lots of his stuff around the city. To go for

dinner we had to go through the Central Station.Quite a place. Thousand weirdos doing weird

things. And then the travelers and then prof.

Aprile and myself.

The skylight with squared neons was remarking.

In Bruxelles, WalkingAround with prof. Aprile (2)
https://www.facebook.com/BruxellesCentralBrusselCentraal?ref=streamhttp://www.galerieravenstein.com/

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The rest was totally forgettable.

Here some more on Horta: http://www.telegraph.

co.uk/.../Brussels-revisiting-the...

Art Basel

Jan Schoonhoven commuted from his hometown of

Delft, in the Netherlands, to The Hague each

weekday, worked until exactly 5, ate dinner with

his wife and then spent his evenings making all-white artworks at the kitchen table. He used white

paint on cardboard or newspaper, in one piece

after another, with only the smallest variations,

day after day. For almost 40 years.

Keep reading at: http://www.nytimes.com/...

/Demand-Rises-for-Dutch-Palette...

A Civil Servant for the

Dutch Postal Service...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/arts/Demand-Rises-for-Dutch-Palette-in-Shades-of-White.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/arts/Demand-Rises-for-Dutch-Palette-in-Shades-of-White.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/arts/Demand-Rises-for-Dutch-Palette-in-Shades-of-White.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/arts/Demand-Rises-for-Dutch-Palette-in-Shades-of-White.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0https://www.facebook.com/artbasel?ref=streamhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/belgium/brussels/8803574/Brussels-revisiting-the-magic-of-Victor-Horta.htmlhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/belgium/brussels/8803574/Brussels-revisiting-the-magic-of-Victor-Horta.html

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Stanhope Hotel

A Thief Blends in...

This is the odd leaflet I was given when I arrived

to this fancy hotel where I stay. Very curious,

isn'it?

It implies that Bruxelles is a city where nakedpeope with necktie, go around looking for other

naked people (them as well, wearing necktie), to

rob.

A city where thieves use a necktie as a dress code.Also, not so easy. Being the hotel at some 200

meters from the European Parliament, every

person around me is a potential robber.

#mammamia

Luckily, I never wear a necktie (hence they won't

rob me). Still...
https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/mammamiahttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Stanhope-Hotel/157007107678189?ref=stream

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Brussel- Charleroi

Let's Get Out of Here...

I spent three days in Bruxelles, at this EU

conference.

My presentation went very fine, although I am not

really good at this "networking" activity (that is

the main goal of all the people there).

Interesting experience anyway...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brussel-Charleroi/376778542398246?ref=stream

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Erzincan, Turkey

Deep in the Mountains

Barbara Ghella is somewhere in some mountains I

can't even find the name. Anyway, from Google

Maps, I see that Iran is not so far

You can follow the #milanbangkokon two#fiatpandatrip, following @bghella on Instagram.
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Vienna, Austria

Perfect for Do-It-Yourself lovers and those

interested in learning, understanding and

experiencing how analogue photography works,

the Konstruktor is a fully-functional 35mm SLRcamera which you can easily build at home.

Through the fantastically fun process of

assembling this beautiful machine, youll learn the

essence of photography and be able to shootwonderfully sharp and vibrant analogue photos. It

s time to take the next step on your exciting

photographic adventure and boost your creativity

to the max. With the Konstruktor, you dont just

capture analogue beauty, you Konstruct it!

Keep reading at: http://microsites.lomography.

com/konstruktor/

Konstruktor, or a DIY 35mm

Camera
http://microsites.lomography.com/konstruktor/http://microsites.lomography.com/konstruktor/http://microsites.lomography.com/konstruktor/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vienna-Austria/111165112241092?ref=stream

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Sesto Fiorentino

"If you define intelligence as the capacity to solve

problems, plants have a lot to teach us," saysStefano Mancuso, dressed in harmonizing shades of

his favorite color: green. "Not only are they 'smart'

in how they grow, adapt and thrive, they do it

without neuroses. Intelligence isn't only about

having a brain."

Keep reading at: http://www.wired.com/...

/news/2007/10/veggie_intelligence

Via Alessandro Chessa.

Smarty Plants: Inside

the Plant-Intelligence Lab
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/veggie_intelligencehttp://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/veggie_intelligencehttp://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/veggie_intelligencehttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Sesto-Fiorentino/105530636148401?ref=stream

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New Toy

Yesterday I've got my self a mini iPad. Then Istarted to play and fiddle with "Paper" and

"Moleskine" (digital) notebooks.

Lots of things to be done!

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Bruxelles - Magritte Museum

This I bought, and very I like!

This delightful collection allows everyone to enjoy

firsthand the provocative methods used by theartists and poets of the Surrealist school to break

through conventional thought and behavior to a

deeper truth. Invented and played by such artists

as Andr Breton, Rene Magritte, and Max Ernst,

these gems still produce results ranging from thehilarious to the mysterious and profound.

Here the link: http://www.shambhala.com/a-

book-of-surrealist-games.html
http://www.shambhala.com/a-book-of-surrealist-games.htmlhttp://www.shambhala.com/a-book-of-surrealist-games.htmlhttp://www.shambhala.com/a-book-of-surrealist-games.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Bruxelles-Magritte-Museum/408127329274290?ref=stream

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Two Towers

This is very fantastic!

Two Towers, by Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys,

1959.

Image, courtesy ofPan Gu (you can follow her

Instagram flow at: @pan_gu).

This piece can be seen at: http://www.facebook.com/.../The-Desire.../517397634970084
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Desire-for-Freedom-Art-in-Europe-since-1945/517397634970084https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Desire-for-Freedom-Art-in-Europe-since-1945/517397634970084https://www.facebook.com/gu.pan

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Some More Experiments

The universe of digital notebooks related to the

ipad is quite impressive. In these days I am playing

quite

Let's see what it will come out...

Crescenzago
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crescenzago-Lombardia-Italy/104959506208185?ref=stream

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Crescenzago

The Digital World

Transforming the Analog One

If the digital world would make the analog one

disappearing, it would be rather spooky, but surely

easy to manage.

This fact that the digital layers simply overlaps the

analog one, it implies some fair amount of

assorted logistics.

Here above the fancy work done by ms Puri and ms

JeeJee on my pants last night. They kindly added

3 cm to the pocket in my pants (in order to

properly accomodate my minipad thinghy).

Very cool indeed (too bad you can't see the inner

sleeve for the stylus).

Now, I am ready to go...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crescenzago-Lombardia-Italy/104959506208185?ref=stream

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London, United Kingdom

Stephen Fry @stephenfry

has started a Tumblr...

...and is now posting pics at: http://stephen-fry-

me.tumblr.com/

(via @jackschofield on Twitter)
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Centre Pompidou-Metz

Constant:

Another Magic Trick!

It seems that you liked very much the Two Towers

by Constant (posted few days ago, thanks to Pan

Gu).

Here another magic one!

Link to the original digital image at: http://www.

centrepompidou-metz.fr/.../constant-constant...
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Caracas, Venezuela

Gego (This is really

booummboouum!)

The other day, when I posted Constant's Two

Towers, Giulia Bonelliwas kind enough to give me

few links to ms Gertrude Goldschmidt (aka Gego).

What a world opened up to my eyes!

I am very shameful to admit I never knew about

ms Gego and her work.

Here we go!

Gertrude Goldschmidt (1 August 191217

September 1994) also known as Gego, was a

modern Venezuelan artist and sculptor. Gego's

most popular works were produced in the 1960sand 1970s, during the height of popularity of

Geometric abstract art and Kinetic Art. Although

these genres influenced her somewhat, Gego tried

to develop her own style and break from the

popular art of Venezuela.

Keep reading on Wikipedia at: http://en.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Gego
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Pleasanton, CA, United States

On Lies. A Short

(Visual) Essay

Here the link to the Gego Foundation: http:

//fundaciongego.com/

And here some more: http://claireellery.blogspot.

it/2012/04/gego.html

Giulia, thankxthanxhthanx!
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