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  • Norway. Visualize migratory displacement

    Another visualization. Even Westvang has developed a graphical representation, based on public data, that allows visualizing the housing changes of 300,000 Norwegians. The data is taken from data that, from our perspective, we do not understand is public, but in Norway it is: family income level, date of birth or age. Thanks to this, the…

  • 10,000 cabs in Manhattan

    New York’s yellow cabs are one of the main symbols of the city. its trail is the trail of the city in motion, the flow of comings and goings of people moving in the city. How to understand that trace at a glance? Tom McKeogh, Eliza Montgomery and Juan F. Saldarriaga developed a visualization model…

  • Innovating the life of my client

    Is your client a dull and boring guy? Does he yawn when he hears your proposals? Does he even brag about your products or services? Perhaps it is time to apply a revolutionary method of innovation, it is not about process, product or business model innovation (for those enlightened on the subject), it is about…

  • Parking and urban sprawl: an extreme example in Houston

    Alex MacLean is a photographer specializing in aerial work and has produced series well known for their visual impact. The aerial perspective offers a scalar dimension of the territory that is difficult to capture, obviously, at street level. The images of Las Vegas in this series, for example, are very illustrative and have the captivating…

  • Capital Area Food Bank: Hungry Hearts, Hungry Cities

    Bruce Springsteen is one of the best-known artists in the American popular music culture. His song Hungry Heart was a hit back in 1980. Everybody wants to have a home, nobody wants to be alone, claims the song. That was probably what Lynn Brantley, who has been in charge of the Capital Area Food Bank,…

  • Melbourne. Alleys exist too

    Melbourne is one of the most recognized cities for its quality of vida, among other things due to its vibrant cultural life and the high quality of its public spaces and streets, at least in comparison with the typical image of urbanism in the North American tradition and which is so influential in Australia. I…

  • On Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to future investors

    Undoubtedly, one of the most relevant news in the technology sector 2012 will be Facebook’s IPO. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, has published an extraordinary letter to potential investors where he explains what Facebook is and wants to continue to be and points to some of the keys to its success. The letter…

  • Everyware, the technology that is already here and everywhere

    Starting in 2012. 2006, the year Adam Greenfield published his well-known book Everyware. The dawning age of ubiquitous computing which, read today, is mainly surprising for the way in which it anticipated some of the things that we are observing today about the growing generalization of systems that have little by little colonized our daily…

  • Biofuels an industry in transition

    The magazine Dyna Engineering and Industry has published a articlein which I have collaborated with Mónica Casla on the industry of biofuels. The main conclusions are summarized below. The takeoff of the biofuels industry as a real energy alternative in the world of transport depends on three closely related factors. In the first place, with…

  • Everyday scenes in a smart city

    Surely these notes will seem somewhat naive, but I can’t resist sharing them. Given the abundance of sophisticated promises around the idea of ​​the smart city, proposing everyday facts as proof that the smart city goes beyond the idea of ​​technologies may seem light. Let’s take the case of public transport. We strive to create…