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Living Building Challenge: The Movie [VIDEO]

Teaser for an upcoming feature on the Living Building Challenge by Filmthropic:

The Challenge: The Future (teaser3) from FILMTHROPIC on Vimeo.

Process Urbanism - The City as Artificial Ecosystem

[Stick with this video - begins a little oddly, and audio is in Danish but with English subtitles in lower right]

Process Urbanism - The City as Artificial Ecosystem from SLA Architects on Vimeo.

SLA Architects has developed a landscape inspired planning method called processs urbanism. SLA does not regard nature and the city as opposites. The city is part of nature’s ecosystem and vice versa. There has to be a balance and a direct synergy effect between the many dynamic elements. Knowledge about wind, water, light, energy, circulation, politics, health, urban life, density, sustainability etc. is collected to create one urban ecosystem, filled with poetry and surprises.

Cities in Motion, Shifting Landscapes and Systems in Chaos

CREDIT: Semiconductor Films, Time Out of Place

Environmental Graffiti continually discovers the most amazing images, videos and art installations – all centered on nature, environmental science, the built environment. Recently the site featured Semiconductor, UK artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, who use digital animation to explore sound, time and natural forces.

“Sound As You’ve Never Seen it Before” begins:

“People become trains, trains become movement and sound, and time blurs into past, present and future simultaneously. Meet Semiconductor, a Brighton-based artist duo obsessed with our environment, landscape, architecture, chaos theory and other subjects. In creative and original fashion, they have been creating cutting-edge digital artworks – their sound films – since 1999.”

Semiconductor describes their moving image works as revealing “cities in motion, shifting landscapes and systems in chaos.“ Short films include The Sound of Microclimates, Acousticity, Earthmoves, Matter in Motion, and Time Out of Place (from
 2007), illustrating how  the Kings Cross area in London “is rapidly transforming, creating a city in flux.”