In the category of Things I Don’t Understand — the placement of these cabins in the middle of the pavement.
Is it stupidity? Unwillingness? Disinterest? Or ‘just’ lousy generic instructions?
In the category of Things I Don’t Understand — the placement of these cabins in the middle of the pavement.
Is it stupidity? Unwillingness? Disinterest? Or ‘just’ lousy generic instructions?
Ik hoop dat ik later, als oudje, een erg mooie en handige elektrische rolstoel zal hebben. Eentje waarmee ik ook zo goed als overal in de stad (en vele plekken daarbuiten) kan geraken.
Dus de rolstoel moet fantastisch ontworpen zijn, maar de infrastructuur in de stad ook!
(Mijn absolute voorkeur zou misschien zelfs nog een exoskeleton zijn, eerder dan een e-rolstoel.)
Serendipity in Mastodon strongly depends on hashtags, I’d like to see people share their frequently used or actively followed hashtags.
#PublicTechnology
The use of technology in the public space / realm.
#UrbanMobility
How cities (want to) deal with mobility.
#BikeBenchTree
Three necessary urban ingredients.
#UglyTech
Too much of (public) technology is downright ugly.
#UrbanTech
A visible form of public technology.
#BewoondeKom
Hoe de bebouwde kom eigenlijk zou moeten heten.
Ugly tech in cities.
“Enter, the heat pump.
Using a technology that dates to the 1970s, these boxy machines have suddenly been embraced across Germany — so much so that heat pumps are often sold out, and the wait for a qualified installer can last months.”
Now work on their design, because heat pumps are só ugly!
Tech in the street
If you look around, there’s a lot of technology in our streets. Most of it has (or had) some use. And quite a lot of that urban tech is also rather ugly.
We can and we must do better.
(On this photo we see electricity cabins near Het Steen castle in Antwerp.)