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Nous vous souhaitons une excellente année, avec tous nos voeux de santé, de réussite, de bonheur, et d’amour, et nous espérons que cette année 2018 sera celle de l’avènement de la conception universelle et de la conception universelle des apprentissages dans les décisions des grands acteurs économiques, et académiques.

2015 en révision

Les lutins statisticiens de WordPress.com ont préparé le rapport annuel 2015 de ce blog sur la conception universelle.

En voici un extrait :

Un tramway de San Francisco peut contenir 60 personnes. Ce blog a été visité 530 fois en 2015. S’il était un de ces tramways, il aurait dû faire à peu près 9 voyages pour transporter tout le monde.

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Experimental Modular Storage Furniture

It’s more of a curio cabinet than a functional piece of storage furniture, at least where space efficiency is concerned, but the ROOM Collection is nevertheless an interesting experiment. Designers Kyuhyung Cho and Erik Olovsson collaborated on the piece, called ROOM Collection, which consists of 25 modular parts that can be moved around like children’s blocks.

There doesn’t appear to be any sort of registering component between the parts, as this is a design exercise rather than something intended for production.

Assuming they could solve the stability problem, I could see something like this taking off in the hands of, say, an Ikea, where customers could purchase one or two pieces at a time and gradually build up.

The sheer diversity of overall forms one can generate would appeal to consumers’ individuality, and is a clever way to solve the cookie-cutter conflict in mass production.

Here’s the project in the designers’ own words:

When it comes to furniture, people are used to placing a object within a square space. While it is common to use a square form to arrange an object, Erik and Kyuhyung were interested in diversifying the relationship between object and space to create furniture as rooms for objects. The focus was to explore the mix-and-match quality of the ensemble in our spaces from a graphical approach.

ROOM collection is a furniture system with 25 stackable blocks and a low table with various geometric voids inspired by architecture and the objects they can hold. When all the elements of ROOM are combined it forms either a long shelf or a tall cabinet with a variety of different graphical compositions. ROOM allows each user to pick their favorite elements to build up your own composition as a shelf, a table or just as a sculpture.

Each block was inspired by specific objects, creating various shapes and sizes. The round for wine, zigzag for phones, tablets and laptops, or peaked for an open book. Each block can be a room to invite any object, the composition is unlimited.

ROOM enhances the characteristic of the individual objects and emphasizes the interactions between space and object. ROOM is made in plywood and finished with a matt lacquer.

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The Pros & Cons of Living Near Family

My day job is the only one I’ve ever had in which the employees never socialize outside of work— it’s also the only one I’ve ever had in which all of the employees’ families live locally. Coincidence? I can’t help but wonder: do all of the family recitals, parties, graduations, brunches, and favors take up so much time that there’s little-to-none left over for a non-family social life?

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This Insane Video Game Puts Pac-Man, Pong, and Space Invaders In A Blender

And it’s somehow better than all of them put together.

Among gamers, every video game is ultimately described as a mash-up of game titles. For example: "It’s like Doom and Sim City and Flappy Bird, smashed together and served to you on a plate with your gonads as a garnish!" Usually, these descriptions don’t really hold up, but no one can accuse Dick Poelen, the Dutch developer behind Pacapong, of exaggerating things: his game is Pac-Man mashed up with Space Invaders rammed into Pong.

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A Mighty Oak Tree Frames This Family Home in Austin

Austin Tree House Exterior Facade

The structure’s white stucco second story nods to the architecture of traditional tree houses and is used as sleeping quarters for the owner’s children. The leaves of the central oak tree can be seen peaking out above the façade.

Image courtesy of Brian Mihealsick.

Tree houses, with branches at their center and foliage above, occupy a special place in the architectural imagination. Their charm is in large part derived from the way they slip gravity’s bond and hover over the ground below. In Austin, however, Matt Fajkus Architecture has achieved an unusual feat: Designing a tree house that soars while remaining firmly planted on the ground.

The tree is a live oak and serves as the focal point around which the home’s three pavilions are positioned. This U-shaped configuration creates a neat division between public and private areas while ensuring that each unit has ample views of the tree and its surroundings. The three wings positioned around the oak tree create an outdoor living space, where residents and guests can congregate.

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