University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning will host a conference, Future of Urbanism, March 19 & 20, 2010. An international roster of speakers – academics and practioners – will address some of the most critical issues facing our cities and their environs in six sessions, comprised of 15-minute segments and a […]

‘Transport networks are ubiquitous in both social and biological systems. Robust network performance involves a complex trade-off involving cost, transport efficiency, and fault tolerance. Biological networks have been honed by many cycles of evolutionary selection pressure and are likely to yield reasonable solutions to such combinatorial optimization problems. Furthermore, they develop without centralized control and […]

“Every hyperlink is a point of departure and a destination.” In the Hyperlink school of the future rooms will visually transform into any subject or topic necessary or desired. Students will teach the building how to be the appropriate school for them. The transmission of knowledge does not end at the student. It is rapidly […]

NERVOUSystem The network culture we inhabit is marked by the individual entrenched in reading, conversing electronically, surfing the internet, and watching television, all deeply embedded in the virtual. Individuals now use space as a common meeting place, mainly to share information, often initiated through the various electronic mediums. Within these social gatherings information is being […]

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