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Ruth Cuadra

Coming Next Year: World's First Floating Apartment Complex - 0 views

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    Living in close proximity to ever-rising water can be a difficult prospect, and while the Dutch have come up with all sorts of ways to work with instead of against it, this is a new achievement: apartments that float.
Ruth Cuadra

As wealthy cluster up, do resources follow? - 1 views

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    Increasing income inequality is one of the primary reasons for the growth of income segregation.
Ruth Cuadra

US Postal Service's official online store is on eBay - 0 views

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    Is this future of quasi-govenment enterprise?
Ruth Cuadra

Le Laboratoire's Ophone Is A Smartphone For The Nose That Knows - 0 views

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    Ophone? Olfactory experiences to be delivered digitally like email or instant messages. Can you smell the sympohony?
Lisa Eriksen

EdX To Examine Personalized MOOC Experience | News | The Harvard Crimson - 1 views

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    Personalized MOOCs - an opportunity for museums?
Ruth Cuadra

Yellow fever mosquito detected in California - 2 views

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    Here's a possible trend NO one could have imagined. "The nightmare scenarios is it gets established in California and then a mosquito bites someone with an imported case of dengue." 
Johanna Fassbender

Microvolunteers help blind people to 'see' | Springwise - 1 views

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    This could also be helpful to blind museum visitors
Ruth Cuadra

California College of the Arts Launches Two New MBA Programs: MBA in Strategic Foresigh... - 1 views

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    MBA in Strategic Foresight is designed to develop leaders who can inspire companies, NGOs, and governments to imagine better futures. Students also learn to manage the processes of creating and implementing new business models and strategies in order to make those futures real.
Ruth Cuadra

Guerrilla Wayfinding: User-Powered Signs Aid Exploration - 2 views

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    What are you missing out on in your own city by sticking to your established routes each day, or driving instead of walking?
Ruth Cuadra

The Next Big Thing: "Sit-able Cities" - 1 views

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    Sit-able places are key, interdisciplinary focal points where the delight of "placemaking" and cultural traditions of "watching the world go by" merge with the sometimes conflicting domains of law and politics, economic development, public safety, gentrification and the homeless.
Ruth Cuadra

Mixed results for de Blasio's housing mandate - 0 views

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    Likely new mayor of NY wants inclusionary zoning to require developers to build affordable housing
Ruth Cuadra

First 3D Movies From a Single Pixel Camera - 0 views

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    Researchers can now track a moving object and create a 3D film of its motion
Ruth Cuadra

2013 Great Places in America - 0 views

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    great places ("you know them when you see them" as we say in our baseline report) are listed in 3 categories: neighborhoods, streets and public places.
Ruth Cuadra

Wearable tech revenue to hit $19B by 2018 - 0 views

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    forecast that worldwide spending on wearable technology will hit $1.4 billion this year. By 2018, that figure will hit $19 billion
Ruth Cuadra

Amaze project aims to take 3D printing 'into metal age' - 0 views

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    interesting to note that the Amaze project will be unveiled at London's Science Museum
Ruth Cuadra

Museums and the Recession - 1 views

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    Some observations about how museums have changed since 2008 and the Great Recession
Ruth Cuadra

The End Of The Library | TechCrunch - 0 views

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    The internet has replaced the importance of libraries as a repository for knowledge. And digital distribution has replaced the role of a library as a central hub for obtaining the containers of such knowledge: books. Will this happen to museums too?
Ruth Cuadra

Science Pop - Museum Planning - 0 views

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    "I am bothered by the "big box" science centers, $300 million dollar projects seem unnecessary.  You could build 100 smaller science centers for the same $300M budget.  My thinking behind Science Pop (science center in a box), has grown out of a need for community based science centers."
Ruth Cuadra

Project for Public Spaces | Leadership Spotlight: Marisa Novara on Making the Case for ... - 1 views

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    What are the places that draw people together and create a sense of community? They want a way to feel connected to other people in the place that they share.
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