São Paulo: The City That Said No To Advertising
A city stripped of advertising. No Posters. No flyers. No ads on buses. No ads on trains. No Adshels, no 48-sheets, no nothing.
It sounds like an Adbusters editorial: an activist’s dream. But in São Paulo, Brazil, the dream has become a reality.
Cool.
Twice in the past few months I’ve encountered the phrase “open source” outside the context of software. It seems the underlying ideas (which are pretty generic and powerful) and being latched onto by other areas of specialism like the intelligence services, architecture and politics. Try this on for size:
define:open source intelligence
Open source intelligence or “OSINT” refers to an intelligence gathering discipline based on information collected from open sources, i.e. information available to the general public. This includes newspapers, the internet, books, phone books, scientific journals, radio broadcasts, television, and others. The term is unrelated to open source in the computer software community, which refers to programs whose source code is publicly available. …
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006881.html
David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang are both architects, but to call their company, Living, an architecture firm doesn’t come anywhere near to explaining what they do. Benjamin and Yang create what they call “open source, incremental, small-scale architecture that engages the city.”
… and another one about architecture ….
http://osdir.com/ml/politics.oekonux.english/2004-10/msg00016.html
Subject: [ox-en] Open Source Architecture: NOW!
Hello,
We are sorry for cross-posting, but we would like to inform you about a
project in Forum Stadtpark in Graz (Austria), the project initiated by
ortlos architects, on one of the most interesting topics in contemporary
architecture and net.art practice: >>networked creative collaboration< <
based on principles of open source architecture.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20041122/sifry
The rise of open source politics ….. Applied to political organizing, open source would mean opening up participation in planning and implementation to the community, letting competing actors evaluate the value of your plans and actions, being able to shift resources away from bad plans and bad planners and toward better ones, and expecting more of participants in return. It would mean moving away from egocentric organizations and toward network-centric organizing.
