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Venice Biennale Architecture: Out Where?

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Out There: Architecture Beyond Building 11th Venice International Architecture Exhibition
- Jacaranda blooms as Venice swoons – www.theaustralian.news.com.au a lot of very strong ideas here and the crossover between artists and architects
- Venice Biennale: The highlights – www.bdonline.co.uk: first you enter a room that describes personal loss, then on to the garden, which is about you have, with the route ending, happily enough, in paradise (shown)
- Out Here: Disquieted Architecture – www.e-flux.com: architecture in a contemporary landscape marked by questions of ephemerality, transience, frequent paradoxes and continuous movements in time and space.
- Hadid’s Space-Age Sculptures Land in Venice Villa for Biennale – www.bloomberg.com: Two sculptures of flamboyant and curvaceous metal have taken over the Hall of Giants near Venice.
- S’pore ideas bloom in Venice – www.straitstimes.com (singapore): A cacophony of sounds heralded the opening of the Singapore Pavilion

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Free as in freedom

links:
- Google-O’Reilly Open Source Awards – Hall of Fame
- Karl Fogel: I usually work on Free things
- My name is Chris Messina, I’m an advocate for the Open Web
txt: Thomas Jefferson – letter to Isaac MacPherson – 1813

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.

video: Changes – by LORCAN FINNEGAN on vimeo.com

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The knowledge economy is sharing

He who receives an idea from me receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
Thomas Jefferson

links:
- Knowledge economy – wikipedia
- What Is the Knowledge Economy? – New Zealand Ministry of Economic development
- A Primer on the Knowledge Economy – Centre for Strategic Economic Studies Victoria University
- Knowledge economy – www.enterweb.org (ah, that 1994 web style…)

video: Lars Ulrich of Metallica Thanks YouTube Fans

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A new cultural economy

txt: Ars Electronica 2008 – A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property.

After all, regardless of the perspective from which one approaches this issue—that of the Internet pirates, the inventors of a new information commons, the pioneers of a sharing economy or the apologists of the creative industries—one thing remains true: if knowledge and content actually are to be the new capital of postindustrial society, then they have to circulate and be accessible by all.

video: Inflatable Gang – The Wrong Door – BBC Three

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Freeconomics: free changes everything?

txt: Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm – wired.com

But he’s not concerned about viability or walking into a “freeconomics” black hole.
“Our premise is that there will of course be some students who spend nothing, they just consume the free book online, but we believe students are consumers and they will pay for convenience if the price is right,” [Flat World Knowledge] says.

links:
- Flat World Knowledge – www.flatworldknowledge.com
- Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business – wired.com
- The Rise of “Freeconomics” – www.thelongtail.com
- Beware of Freeconomics – www.readwriteweb.com

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