Monthly Archives: January 2012
21st Century Sand Bags
[A geotube dewatering field, source] Tencate, a leading transnational provider of geosynthetics and industrial fabrics, recently announced that it will be deploying its largest North American installation of geotubes® for the dredging of the superfund site of Onondaga Lake, in the State of New York: “As a result of over a century of industrial activity […]
Loving Logistics
Recall UPS’ “We Love Logistics” advertising campaign from last year: The advertisement provides an illustration of a particular utopia, a corporate dream of the urban as a bundle of transportation networks that optimize the efficient exchange of objects and things. ….. Fast forward a year later. Last month FedEx – UPS’ biggest competitor – announced […]
Talking Dredge at Studio-X NYC
If you are in or near NYC later this month, our cohorts will be presenting some of our recent research at Studio-X NYC: “For the first LI@SX of 2012, Studio-X NYC is delighted to welcome Rob Holmes and Stephen Becker of Mammoth and Tim Maly of Quiet Babylon, three-quarters of the Dredge Research Collaborative (with […]
Post Ideological
[Thomas Ruff's Nacht 15 III, 1994, appropriating infrared surveillance technology as used by military and popular media in the Gulf War.] “Today we find ourselves in a jealous mood, yet at the same time disillusioned, looking back to the times when revolutionary urban ideologies were not only conceived but actually, unlike today, also truly believed […]
