Coiso

Um dos resultados do projecto Ateliers do Porto de ano passado foi o "Coiso" do Jaime Sarró, aluno do curso de Mestrado Industrial da FEUP.

Realizado numa parceria com a MG Maquetes e a Escovaria de Belmonte, o "Coiso" é muito útil para muitas coisas e com ele podem mesmo coisar quase tudo. Bora lá coisar coisas com coisos. Em breve numa loja próximo de sí. Esteja atento e procure o "Coiso".

Voltaremos a manobrar em 2012?

As iniciativas de escala local, os designers e os artesãos, os emprendedores e o centro histórico, os pequenos objectos que usamos ou disfrutamos, os desafios, a alternativa possível, o negócio e a internacionalização, este ano vamos tentar que o projecto ATELIERS do PORTO dê uma grande volta centrada de novo no MAUS. Contamos com todos. Daremos notícias!

Manifesto

http://foroalfa.org/articulos/manifiesto-s

Recolha selectiva ALTO

http://alto.pt/?1&it=noticia_reg&co=851

Recentemente a ALTO Perfis Pultrudidos, Lda colaborou com a empresa Inframoura, E.M. no desenvolvimento e produção para marcos de recolha selectiva de lixo. É um projecto inovador e original que alia cor ao design moderno e à funcionalidade. Temos tido boas repercussões e boas críticas relativamente a este projecto, que ainda se encontra a decorrer. Estes novos marcos podem já ser vistos aplicados junto à marina de Vilamoura e em breve em mais pontos da cidade. Os dispositivos foram desenhados de forma a garantir o cumprimento das suas funções, não esquecendo a qualidade e acabamento do produto. Estes marcos de recolha selectiva são fabricados em PRFV (Plástico Reforçado com Fibra de Vidro) de forma a garantir a sua durabilidade, e pelo processo de RTM, para conseguir um bom acabamento. O seu mecanismo de abertura é de aço inox assegurando também a resistência às intempéries dado os marcos serem aplicados na via pública. O acabamento exterior dos dispositivos é feito através da pintura em branco para realçar o bom acabamento das peças e as tampas deslizantes com cor, assinalando o marco de recolha de papel em azul; recolha de plástico e metal em amarelo; recolha de vidro em verde e ainda o marco de recolha de resíduos indiferenciados em preto. Em suma, os marcos de recolha selectiva desenvolvidos e fabricados pela parceria ALTO Perfis Pultrudidos, Lda e Inframoura, E.M. trazem uma nova perspectiva ao sector de separação de resíduos, inovando nos dispositivos de recolha e trazendo o design moderno e vanguardista para as ruas.

Design and Emotion BLOG

http://designandemotion.org/blog/?p=1626

8th International Conference on Design & Emotion

Deadline extension 8th International Conference on Design & Emotion

London 2012

The organising committee of the 8th International Conference on Design & Emotion would like to inform you of the extension to the deadline for papers and case studies submissions to 8 pm GMT, 8th February, 2012.

We look forward to welcoming your contribution.

http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/de2012/important_dates.html

The Design & Emotion Society :Marco Van Hou

Mind Design

http://www.dcdr.dk/uk/menu/update/webzine/overview-all-issues

SUBSCRIBE TO MIND DESIGN

Mind Design, DCDR Webzine is published once a month and features articles and interviews about current Danish and international design research. Mind Design aims to present design research and research findings from researcher to researcher as well as from researchers to design practitioners in general. Mind Design is edited and published by the Danish Centre for Design Research. Reprint is permitted if credits are included.

Artifact

Artifact is now an Open-Access journal

Make a Forest

http://www.makeaforest.org/

To help call attention to the need to preserve trees worldwide and how we think about the environment, a global project known as Make a Forest was launched in The Netherlands last year — the United Nations International Year of Forests 2011. A group of designers and artists participated in the project by “planting” artificial trees in several cities.

One of the trees planted in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week was graphic designer Marc ter Horst’s ”Rubbertree,” pictured above, made from rubber tires.

Toy for Autism Spectrum Disorde

PlanToys' Build-a-Robot, featuring a modern design aesthetic, recieved 2011 Good Design Award in the Children's Products category. The toy was designed specifically to address the needs of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) though it appeals to children of all ages. The primary function addresses the need to identify emotions. Secondary functions include sensory issues and fine motor skills. The toy is manufactured with organic, kiln-dried, reclaimed rubber wood, water-based dyes and non-formaldehyde glue in a factory that is powered by biomass and solar energy. Packaging is recycled paper and soy ink. Four interchangeable, geometric-shaped heads featuring the emotions of happiness, sadness, anger and surprise feature a range of textures to address sensory issues.

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) includes autistic disorder, Asperger syndrome and Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 110 children in the U.S. have ASD, a developmental disorder that causes significant social, communication and behavioral challenges. A recent study, published in The American Journal of Psychiatry, from the Yale Child Study Center and George Washington University found that 2.6 percent of all children aged 7 to 12 in Goyang, South Korea had some form of ASD. This rate, of 1 in 38 children, is more than twice the rate previously reported in developed countries

Read more: http://www.dexigner.com/news/24464#ixzz1j8Og6cvq

Finlandia versus EUA

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/
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Yet one of the most significant things Sahlberg said passed practically unnoticed. "Oh," he mentioned at one point, "and there are no private schools in Finland."
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Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
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It is possible to create equality. And perhaps even more important -- as a challenge to the American way of thinking about education reform -- Finland's experience shows that it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity.

The problem facing education in America isn't the ethnic diversity of the population but the economic inequality of society, and this is precisely the problem that Finnish education reform addressed.

MIMA

http://mimahousing.pt/galeria.html

http://p3.publico.pt/cultura/arquitectura/1829/mima-e-pre-fabricada-e-e-uma-casa-portuguesa-com-certeza#.TwMIU2w5Hgw.facebook

Design inclusivo ?

Será que os símbolos colocados nas rodas são de leitura mais universal que as letras?  Qual a probabilidade de uma pessoa conhecer os símbolos sendo SIMULTANEAMENTE analfabeta? Será que as perguntas obvias não se devem fazer?