Gelesen heute im Tagi: “Dagegen dümpelt Delémont, der andere NLA-Absteiger, weiter im hinteren Mittelfeld herum. Die Waadtländer unterlagen bei Malcantone Agno 2:4″.

Interesting document written by the city of Barcelona and reported in “The Knowledge City” that defines the attributes (check-list) for any city claiming to be a knowledge city:

• A city that has instruments to make knowledge accessible to citizens.
• A network of public libraries that is compatible with the European standards.
• Access to the new communication technologies for all citizens.
• All cultural facilities and services with a central educational strategy.
• A city that has a newspaper- and book-reading level that is similar to the average European level.
• A city that has a network of schools connected with artistic instruction throughout its territory.
• A city that is respectful of the diversity of cultural practices of its citizens.
• A city that places the streets at the service of culture.
• A city that simplifies, through the provision of spaces and resources, the cultural activity of the community collectivities and associations.
• A city with civic centres that are open to diversity and that foster face-to-face relations.
• A city that makes available to citizens from other territories all the tools required for them to express themselves.

Image illustrant le post et ma discussion avec icon � propos des gens qui regarde les chantiers dans les villes. Cette activit� semble trans-culturelle, puisque pratiqu�e autant ardemment en Suisse, France qu’en Espagne o� les vieux aiment � observer les chantiers aux environs de 17h apr�s la siesta:

Dans le m�me ordre d’id�e, cela me fait penser aux nouvelles formes de tourisme urbain.

I had lost the happy lunatics of etoy from sight, but I stumbled on them once again today. Pleasant surprise they run the blog etoy.TALK-TANK now! My shareholder card is on its way

Some sinks at the EPFL seem to have been downgraded to new-old-style warm-watter-less sinks (from my trip in Lausanne last week). Are our elite researchers back to pratical technology?

Nico’s bigger office in the CRAFT at the EPFL made his blog blossom (or is it because he does not have to half-install useless zip drives and change the printers’ tonner?). Anyway, icon’s blog is not to miss to follow the fields of mobile technologies, collaborative and awerness tools with a “grosse boule” and “pierre la police” spin.

Nico at our “boum” on Tuesday

Cool article envoyé par marvelous Math. Dans Chacun cherche sa chicha on découvre que le nombre de cafés qui servent des narguilés a quasiment triplé à Paris et qu’une trend semble se mettre en place (même chose à NY). Kamel Chaouachi a même fait sa thèse de doctorat sur le sujet. Il explique d’ailleurs très bien cette nouvelle trend pour le narguillé:

«Le but n’est pas de fumer pour satisfaire une dépendance ou calmer une anxiété, comme dans le cas de la cigarette, mais de prendre le temps de se parler et de s’écouter en se tendant fraternellement et symboliquement le tuyau d’aspiration»

Pour en savoir un maximum sur le narguillé, il y a The Sacred Narghile.

A must see movie is at a theater near your. Cidade de Deus is based on a true story. Two boys growing up in a violent “favela” of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer. Extremely violent but mostly creatively directed. Director Fernando Meirelles is a name to remember.

“Se correr o bicho pega. Se ficar o Bicho Come “

I went to the International fair for contemporary art in Zürich to educate my eyes to shapes, colors and harmonies. As usual there was some nameless pieces of sh… hanging on the walls and people willing to spend a lot of money to buy them. Nevertheless, if was possible to find some very creative and dynamic paintings. One of my favorite was what I would call enhanced reality on photographs.