2022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow's Research Blog

Another project that is stunning to look at — and slightly vengeful to consider —  won a notable mention at ReBurbia:

Designed ByStéphane Degoutin & Gwenola Wagon – Nogo Voyages

The huge amount of vacant land in the abandoned american suburbs can be used to increase the ruralization of the city. We propose themed neighborhoods, specialized on a few plots of land: the sheep district, the chicken district, the pig district… This would allow neighbours to get in touch to keep or exchange their animals.

We propose developments which are sold as packs.
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House
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Stockbreeding

Each housing type is associated with a species or a culture. Housing standards are associated with agricultural standards.

Each pack is ready to use. It comes with a user guidebook, a training if needed, a one year guarantee and assistance service (an assistant farmer can be required).

I just came upon this – amazing proposition — looking for post industrial (and post-slurb) utopianizers:

…Calvin Chiu’s Frog’s Dream, which proposes to re-establish a sustainable relationship between city and suburbia by transforming foreclosures (’McMansions’) into wetlands and natural water filtration systems for urban centers. The idea maker speaks of a ‘Living Machine’ of eco-water treatment machines, in which a “micro-ecosystem of plants, algae, bacteria, fish and clams are present to purify the water. A micro-wetland ecosystem will be formed around these mansions to sustain larger wetland animals and plants.”

Chiu won the Grand Prize of the competition, Reburbia.  Hurrah. I was palpitating and flushed when I saw this image.

Lovely article at Art Fag City,  on Google Street View’s incidentally captured moments.

Two years ago, Google sent out an army of hybrid electric automobiles, each one bearing nine cameras on a single pole. Armed with a GPS and three laser range scanners, this fleet of cars began an endless quest to photograph every highway and byway in the free world.

Consistent with the company’s mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” this enormous project, titled Google Street View, was created for the sole purpose of adding a new feature to Google Maps.

Never hiding its presence, but never announcing its arrival, the Street View vehicle is a systematic pursuer of fleeting moments. continue…