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.Category Archives: regional examples
Can I clean sweet potatoes in this washing machine?
Happy New Year! Let’s launch the year with a post that threads together some of the topics we’ve been looking at — big, smart, and open data alongside multifunctionality. This is the story of Chinese appliance maker Haier. The company used “small data” obtained from its service engineers to find out that many rural clothes… Continue Reading
What’s not missing from this picture?
I read recenlty that the city of Detroit is exploring the option of “killing off” interstate 375 in favor of a pedestrian corridor that would better link neighborhoods, boost the local economies and strengthen neighborhoods. Milwaukee, San Francisco and Portland have already ripped out sections of the freeways to good effect. So in this week’s… Continue Reading
Levi Strauss and slow design
How about this…Levi Strauss has developed a line of “slow” clothing, called Threadwell, but is only releasing it in Europe. So uncertain is the company of the US market, reports the Guardian, that they haven’t announced any release there. The designer Paul Dillinger suggests that his work at the innovation laboratory at Levi’s allows… Continue Reading
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