thousands of autonomous building blocks roam the huron watershed, testing for pollution. walking in random directions near the protected riverside banks, the building units send out an alert when the stimuli has been found–a positive test for one of the rivers known pollutants. sending out a wireless transmission to the the units neighbors within the […]

Future of Design Taubman College Hosts 30 Design Experts in Future of Design Conference University of Michigan’s Taubman College is hosting the Future of Design conference, Oct. 9 & 10, 2009. Thirty designers, critics and provocative thinkers will come together to brainstorm about how design is evolving across various disciplines including architecture, landscape architecture, interactive, […]

left to right: jason pierce, dylan lowder, jon bailey, bennett bossert, matt jackson special thanks to matt and amy for hosting a successful rouse[d]etroit competition and exhibition.

ARTIFICIAL PARADISE, Inc from Jp Frenay on Vimeo. an interesting video by Jean-Paul Frenay

the fractal forest|growing place project is one concept for the third institute of advanced architecture competition–the self sufficient city. more information on the project will be available as the competition unfolds. this is one of many ideas for the competition, as we will explore the urban edge and its relationship to emergence. meanwhile, hoping to […]

[mi]nervousystem will be in the rouse[d] exhibition at gallery 555 in (5716 michigan ave) detroit michigan on september 26th. the opening reception is at 7pm with a guest speakers from P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S @7:30. all participants in the competition as well as jurors will be exhibiting their work. below is a list of these exhibitions; Dave Pigram/SUPERMANOEUVRE […]

a pictoral biography on the nature of fractals. this is a short list of the physical found on earth…