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Urban Monolith

06 Aug 2011
In: Design Inspiration, Munich
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The social cost and benefits of placing any new infrastructure in an urban space. And the infrastructural cues that make it more or less approachable …
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Evolving Screen Literacy

20 Jun 2011
In: Design Inspiration, Seoul
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ATM includes the usual touchscreen (at the bottom of the photo) and a display that updates infrequently – to the unobservant eye it could just …
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The Touchmedia Tax

If you’ve taken a taxi in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong or Shenzhen there’s a fair chance you’ve come across a Touchmedia touch screen display that sits …
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Emergency Response

22 Mar 2011
In: Cultural Norms
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What is worse: no emergency button, or an emergency button that doesn’t work?
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Urban Etiquette

08 Sep 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Mazar e Sharif
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The urban etiquette for running a generator in Mazar e Sharif is to place it out by the open sewer and run a cable up …
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Tank Track Speed Bump

04 Sep 2010
In: Dehdaadi, Street Hacks
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In Dehdaadi, northern Afghanistan.
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Election Posters

20 Aug 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Jalalabad
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With the election in Afghanistan only a month away – candiate posters now covers much of the street signage and infrastructure. This round-about, nee poster …
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Alien Invasion

03 Jul 2010
In: Brighton, Cultural Norms
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Brighton council had decided to introduce large, waste-truck friendly bins that to the outsider appear like silent, brooding invaders in virtually every other street in …
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Infra Density

21 May 2010
In: Austin, Cultural Norms
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Just some of ~dozen ATMs in Austin’s 6th Street bar area – certainly the densest sustained row of cash machines I’ve come across anywhere in …
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Human Flows Redirected

17 May 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Shinagawa
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