Tag: Netherlands

Making Amsterdam the coolest city in the world

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI

Is Amsterdam The Global Seat Of Cool? A New Tourism Spot Says Yes By: Jennifer Miller, fastcocreate.com And tells us how to say “Van Gogh.” Are you look­ing for a vin­tage, hip, indie, arti­sanal, open-minded vaca­tion? Wel­come to Hol­land. A new ad, Hol­land, The Orig­i­nal Cool, cre­at­ed by the Dutch gov­ern­ment to lure Amer­i­can… Is … Continue reading Making Amsterdam the coolest city in the world

PICNIC Festival To Explore The Shift From Top-Down To Bottom

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

PICNIC Festival To Explore The Shift From Top-Down To Bottom-Up fastcocreate.com Amsterdam festival addresses the cultural and business impact of a networked world. We are offi­cial­ly in the age of democ­ra­tized every­thing. Entrenched sys­tems have been buck­ling under the dis­rup­tive pres­sure of par­tic­i­pa­tion and… http://flpbd.it/1C6IQ Related articles The best electro festivals in The Netherlands? (londonoa.com) … Continue reading PICNIC Festival To Explore The Shift From Top-Down To Bottom

Tempohousing: container housing products

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science UX Research, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Cool company. Based in Netherlands this place designs houses from shipping containers (something which is increasingly being done in a DIY manner). This means the house is ISO standards compliant, modular and practically bomb proof. Plus for the growing numbers of the world's poor and resource limited populations, these are recyclable and low cost housing. … Continue reading Tempohousing: container housing products