Dow Planetarium becomes incubator
I’m not entirely sure what an incubator is, but Dezeen has a story about how the old Dow Planetarium has been turned into one. It looks nice inside, I have to admit.
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Raymond Lutz 23:33 on 2018-12-21 Permalink
“spaces of social diversity” yeah, sure… Faut chercher longtemps dans les photos pour trouver quelqu’un qui illustre cette diversité. Il y a bien une rousse qui écrit sur un mur et qui après consulte un livre (!) sur son pouf. Clin d’oeil à notre hôtesse 😎
Chris 12:35 on 2018-12-22 Permalink
The complexity of human social diversity can be reduced to 9 photos and detected by your eye? You can see gender diversity? Sexual orientation? Religion? Nationality? Language? Political views? Economic status?
The photos are clearly architecture porn, humans are de-emphasized, and are probably just whoever was there when the photographer showed up. It’s true the photos are missing: dark skinned people, old people, overweight people, non-able bodied people, and probably more. You would rather they staged the photos?
Kate 17:41 on 2018-12-22 Permalink
Raymond Lutz, je ne porterais jamais des sneakers blancs avec une robe noire!
Uatu 10:07 on 2018-12-23 Permalink
It looks like the space station in 2001 a space Odyssey where Heywood Floyd evades the Russians questions about the activity around Clavius. All that’s missing is the Hojo sign…
Raymond Lutz 22:08 on 2018-12-23 Permalink
@Chris, le concept même d’incubateur est de la bullshit… Venture capitalist and architecture porn indeed: tout cela est du vent et de la façade, keep on drinking the coolaid.
Ne vous y trompez pas: je ne suis pas technophobe (j’ai fait la première démonstration de l’internet et du web à mon cegep il y a 25 ans alors qu’il n’y avait même pas d’ISP local, je me branchais sur les modems de l’UdM) mais je ne suis pas dupe et dénonce l’uberisation de notre société et les wifi-enabled juicers qui émanent de ces Y combinator à la con. Vous confondez finance et science.
Je vous laisse sur cette citation de Ballard: “I think that new emotions and new feelings are being created, that modern technology is beginning to reach into our dreams and change our whole way of looking at things and perceiving reality… that more and more modern technology is drawing us away from contemplating ourselves to contemplating its world.” And this “You Call this Progress?” tldr: technology (and science) are stalled, much of it is decades old, if not centuries. Where is my fusion powered jet pack?
Chris 23:44 on 2018-12-23 Permalink
Raymond, either I don’t understand your retort, you didn’t understand mine, or I misunderstood your original message. 🙂
Anyway, I broadly agree that all that SV startup YC type stuff is way overhyped BS. Trinket garbage to enrich capitalists. There’s so much good technology could be used for, but instead so many bright minds are just shaving nanoseconds off of trades, finding new ways to make ads worse, etc. Sad. 🙁
Raymond Lutz 15:51 on 2018-12-24 Permalink
@Chris, you’re right… I’m not well articulated 😎 I was simply venting off my agacement about technocratie, finance and le charabia qui décrit le projet d’incubateur: “The new vocation of the planetarium commissioned the typology of spaces: spaces to encourage encounters, collaboration and reflection linked to tools and advanced technologies, spaces of social diversity and exchange platforms for sharing knowledge”