The Technological Disobedience of Ernesto Oroza
...website for many hundreds of examples of technological disobedience. I’m particularly fond of his photos of improvised urban seating....
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131 Learning to Smell the Roses with Kendra Gaeta
...tion Beyond perfume–who works with scent The Smelly Viles Ghost Hunters of Urban Los Angeles Perfumers Apprentice + Flavors Apprentice (An amazing source for small quantities of scents and flavors) The smell of the International Space Station If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. Closing...
Saturday Tweets: Let’s Get That Triforium Working Again!
...mple) December 5, 2015 What is the Triforium, and why should we rehabilitate it? https://t.co/PidixDxKDI via @KPCCofframp pic.twitter.com/HoC8Bfm8UX — 89.3 KPCC (@KPCC) December 5, 2015 Urban+Transport+Without+the+Hot+Air:+confusing+the+issue+with+relevant+facts!+https://t.co/XlSybNCpY0 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 3, 2015...
For the Locals . . .
On that foot sign Alissa Walker, one of my favorite journalists, covers urban design here in Los Angeles. She wrote a great piece on our nieghborhood’s iconic podiatrist sign. Walker agrees with me that we need much more than kitschy signs to mark our neighborhoods. She concludes, We need more reminders of what history predates our presence. We need more streets that are designed to connect us instead of being fast-forwarded through in cars. We n...
038 The Ground Rules with Nance Klehm
...resulting compost along with mushrooms and plants to bioremediate damaged urban soils. Nance describes The Ground Rules as “re-imagining waste and biological infrastructures.” You can find out more about the project on the Social Ecologies website and on Nance’s personal website. There’s also a video about The Ground Rules. If you’re in Chicago you can visit Nance and Emmanual Pratt’s exhibition, For the Common Good: Meet the Remediators. Nance’s...