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That is what the SAUD 2010 conference in Amman, Jordan, is about. The closing ceremonies will be on Wednesday 14th of July. The topics for the conference are:
– Sustainable Construction Materials & Technologies
– Design with Nature
– Sustainable Housing and Neighborhoods
– Low Energy Architecture
– Eco-Mobility: Sustainability in Transport
– Vernacular Architecture and Sustainability
– Sustainability Assessment & Buildings Performance
– Sustainability in Developing Countries
– Vernacular Architecture and Sustainability
– Urban Sustainability and Low Carbon Development
– Urban Design and Sustainability
– Reflections on Sustainability
– Sustainability in Arab Countries
– Cultural Heritage and Eco-Tourism
– Sustainable Renovation and Restoration
– Urbanism in the Middle East
– Sustainable Design Issues
– Landscape and Ecological Sustainability
– Sustainability Assessment Methods, Applications and Limitations
– Ecological, Social and Cultural Sensitivity
– Eco-Tourism and Sustainability
– Low Energy Architecture
– Ecological, Social and Cultural Sensitivity
– Traditional Architecture and Sustainability
Jula-Kim Sieber will be talking tomorrow at Session 4C on Reflections on Sustainability about “UNESCO = Walt Disney?”.

Eloi Maduell is an IT-artist from Spain. His telenoika project is a brilliant tool to interpret fassade and play with them.
You can listen to our interview to get some deeper information but first I advise you to see one of the videos by telenoika.

a small board (45 x 35 cm) becomes seat, table and school bag in one = passport for education.
All nomad pupils need is a portable bag made basically of a wooden board: one side is the writing desk, the back side has a leather seat to sit on; between seat and table there is a pocket for pencils, notebooks, books. Nothing else needed — besides a teacher . . . and school can begin.

The project is financed by the association AmiMali e.V. Donations are welcome. Communities interested in the Mobile Device feel free to email AmiMali e.V. I am personally very curious how this mobile device will look in different cultures.
More images can be found on the ar2com – kommunikative archietktur aus darmstadt.