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Public Laboratory wins a grant from the Knight News Challenge!

Written by Mathew on June 22, 2011 — 1 Comment

At the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, of which I’m a co-founder, we’ve just been awarded $500,000 by the Knight Foundation. Congrats to all my co-founders, Jeff, Sara, Shannon, Adam, Liz,Stewart, and to our whole online community, and thanks to the Knight Foundation! This is really going jump-start a lot of work! Read [...]

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The Rest Saving The West

Written by Mathew on April 13, 2010 — Leave a Comment

I have a special loathing for “Design for the Third World,” or pretty much any situation where people assume that just because they are well off, they know know something about what it takes to be well off. So I was delighted to see Dx1W, “Third World Designers solving First World Problems”.  Via Bruce Sterling [...]

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Fighting the Flush: Metropolis Next Generation Competition

Written by molly on February 4, 2010 — 5 Comments

Mathew and I entered Metropolis magazine’s competition for “one fix that will make a positive difference in the designed environment.”  They had 292 applicants this year. We wrote up a proposal for a networked sensor platform for navigating the social and legal obstacles to locally cycling organic matter.  It closes the loop between composting toilets [...]

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We’re speaking at PSU on January 25th

noon on a Wednesday. Room 296 in the Smith Memorial Student Union (near SW Broadway and SW Harrison). We will speak about the recent history of urban sanitation, and the dual crisises of resource management and aging infrastructure driving the development and deployment of alternatives.  The talk will focus on case studies of alternative systems in the US, China, Germany, Sweden, and Yemen.
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