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Opening May 21 at AT1 Projects, LA

Written by Mathew on May 21, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Things have been quiet here on our blog, because we’ve been preparing an exhibition.  An essay/text  and prototypes of ours will be featured in the Super/Prime Pavilion at Volume, AT1 Projects opening show.  Super/Prime is curating a collection of works about transformations in process.  We’re excited, but won’t be able to make the opening.  If [...]

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Monitoring Compost, pt.1 (what we’ve got)

Written by Mathew on March 20, 2010 — 2 Comments

There is no substitute for the complexity of human senses.  Quantitative data is cannot stand in for direct experience with compost.  But it does provide a means of directly comparing processes and feedstock mixes, as well as real-time feedback for  control.   Lacking  grad students or interns we have only robots to exploit (for now…).  To [...]

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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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