IF BLOGGERS:


Mikaela Du Pomzamparc
Graduate Academy of Finland.
Area of specialty: Thawing the frozen poetry of architecture. Light, space and the materials of utopia.
Member of Imaginary Foundation since 1978



Pierre Mâché
Baccalauréat Lausanne University
Area of specialty: Exploring the horizon of the human imagination, Assistant to the Director since 1993



Isadore Muggli
Bauhaus Drop out
Area of specialty: Stimulating the neural mechanisms of visual perception. IF Co-ordinator of optical consistency since 1976




Kamilla Rousseau
Groupe de Recherche Musicale
Area of specialty: Chaotic harmony, cultivated disorder and the atonal structure of infinite beauty. Imaginary since 1978



Neville Bennette
Professor Emeritus Saint Petersburg State University
Area of specialty: Experimentally demonstrating the elaborate logic underpinning nature's awesome machinery. At the IF since 1991.




Everett Ruskin
MA of Octameter Odes Stanford
Area of specialty: Surfing the undulating waves of novelty reflected downstream from the impending Singularity.
Welcomed into the Imaginary Foundation 1981



"Bonkers" Bainbridge
Elongated sabbatical
Area of specialty: Profound absurdity and the ever multiplying wisdom of the cosmic joke.
Estranged from the Imaginary Foundation 1974 reunited 1998



Rufus Daintree
Oxbridge expulsion committee
Area of specialty: Examining the interplay of cultural and biological evolution through the lens of the metabolic metaphor.
Enchanted by the imagination since the dawn of the Foundation.



Prof. Harold Rass
Graduate Kingston Institute of Higher Education,
Area of specialty: Applied vapor research and it's coextending cosmic implications.
Associate Imaginary Foundation 1982




Andre Garnier
L’Université Paris Descartes
Area of specialty: Anticipatory rearrangements of tomorrow via the wealth of yesterday's experience.
With Imaginary since 1979




The Director
Graduate University of Zürich
Area of specialty: Deep Pattern Structures, Conciousness and the Articulation of the Possible.
Founder of Imaginary Foundation, 1973.


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CRADLE TO CRADLE DESIGN


R. Buckminster Fuller once noted, "Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value." This inspiring documentary is about the "Cradle to Cradle" design concept of chemist Michael Braungart and architect William McDonough, which substantiates and applies Bucky's notions of sustainability. It won the Silver Dragon award at the Beijing International Science Film Festival in 2006.

THE SECRET LIFE OF CHAOS


This short preview for the BBC special The Secret Life of Chaos is a concise and succinct three-minute explanation of Mandlebrot's fractal theory of self-similarity.
BIRDS MAKING MUSIC

French multi-media artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot staged an interactive installation at the Barbica Centre in London. The result is a delightful play between chance operations and the unlikely intersection of technology and nature.


HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK?

Dubbed by Britain's Channel 4 as "the crack cocaine of the thinking world," Edge is an organization of thinkers which includes some of the most interesting minds in the world. Each year Edge poses a question, this year collecting 172 essay responses to the question: How is the Internet changing the way you think? This essay from science historian George Dyson was one of our favourites.

KAYAKS vs CANOES
In the North Pacific ocean, there were two approaches to boat building. The Aleuts (and their kayak-building relatives) lived on barren, treeless islands and built their vessels by piecing together skeletal frameworks from fragments of beach-combed wood. The Tlingit (and their dugout canoe-building relatives) built their vessels by selecting entire trees out of the rainforest and removing wood until there was nothing left but a canoe.

The Aleut and the Tlingit achieved similar results–maximum boat/minimum material–by opposite means. The flood of information unleashed by the Internet has produced a similar cultural split. We used to be kayak builders, collecting all available fragments of information to assemble the framework that kept us afloat. Now, we have to learn to become dugout-canoe builders, discarding unnecessary information to reveal the shape of knowledge hidden within.

I was a hardened kayak builder, trained to collect every available stick. I resent having to learn the new skills. But those who don't will be left paddling logs, not canoes.

Read more Edge essays here.

PERSISTENT PYRAMIDS

Moscow-based art director, designer, and interactive programmer Anatoly Zenkov creates three-dimensional impossibilities in his 2D photo series, Persistent Pyramids. Zenkov created his own application that creates these cubist dreamscapes.









THE UNVEILING OF A CLEAN ENERGY FUEL CELL

Great strides are on the horizon for conserving the remainder of our earth's strained resources. A Silicon Valley company, Bloom Energy, will unveil this week a fuel cell that is "capable of producing clean energy in amounts sufficient to power homes and corporations," Information Week reports.

Company founder K.R. Sridhar explains to a 60 Minutes correspondent how his invention, the Bloom Box, produces electricity through "a chemical reaction created by combining oxygen in the air with any fuel source, including natural gas, bio-gas, and solar energy."

With its technology remaining a guarded secret and mystery within the industry, and nothing at all being announced on the company's website, the Bloom Box is garnering as much excitement and hope as it is skepticism. Watch for an announcement on Wednesday to judge for yourself.
THE SUBCONSCIOUS ART OF GRAFFITI REMOVAL

This award wining film directed by Matt McCormick is an oldie but a Goldie.

SPACED OUT

"The cosmos is within us, we're made of star stuff"



Comming soon


PARKOUR DOCUMENTARY "MY PLAYGROUND" BY KASPARWORKS

Danish filmmaker Kaspark Astrup Schröder offers this preview for his forthcoming documentary about traceurs and freerunners. These athletes challenge the intentions of architecture and manmade environments as they use surface areas of buildings for recreation and physical exploration. In the film, Schröder gives an in-depth look into the development of the first parkour park (located in Copenhagen), designed for the sole use of this burgeoning physical artform.

THE DAWN OF A LIMITLESS ENERGY FUTURE IS HERE


Founded upon Albert Einstein's E=mc2 equation, nuclear fusion is finally producing results after more than 50 years of research. New experiments are giving researchers the confidence that a milestone will be achieved sometime this year. This process of atomic binding, which occurs naturally in stars, has been the focus of experiments at the National Ignition Facility, with the aim of producing controlled fusion power for the production of electricity. Einstein's original vision of nuclear energy was not for destructive uses like the H-bomb, but for the good of humankind. Let's hope his dream will be realized.