The Viridian Design Movement


From: Bruce Sterling [bruces@well.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 2:27 PM

Subject: Viridian Note 00331: Contest Winner

Key concepts: Mary Kaldor, Viridian Global Civil Society Design Contest

Attention Conservation Notice: Our contest judge has rendered her verdict.

Links:

Whoa, those are some kinda parody banner-ads.
http://www.valleyofthegeeks.com/Features/BannerAds3.html

Giant fungal remediation weirdness.
http://www.fungi.com/mycotech/mycova.html

Rather interesting short sci-fi story about ubiquitous computation.
http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shortshorts/kadrey.html


Viridian Design site.
http://www.viridiandesign.org

Viridian Contest Archive
http://www.viridianrepository.com/

Our Judge, Dr. Mary Kaldor of the Global Civil Society Yearbook.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/Yearbook/default.htm
http://www.kosovocommission.org/commission/kaldor.html
http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/010kaldor.htm


Entries in the Global Civil Society Design Contest.

From: Steven W. Schuldt <swschuldt*mac.com>
http://www.americanrobotz.com/images2/Soon_GlobalCivilSocietyLaptop.jpg

From: Ben Davis <bend*earthlink.net>
http://www.digitaleverything.com/GlobalComputer.htm

From: Joerg F. Wittenberger <Joerg.Wittenberger*pobox.com>
http://www.askemos.org/ http://www.askemos.org:9080/RomePaper.pdf

From: Scott Vandehey <scot*spaceninja.com >
http://spaceninja.com/viridian/notebook.html

From: Bob Morris <bob*bomoco.com>
http://viridianrepository.com/GlobalCivil/

From: Anonymous http://home.freiepresse.de/befis/zx2000.html http://apollo.spaceports.com/~bodo4all/zx/zx97.htm http://www.vkb.co.il/

From: Jim Thompson <jim*musenki.com>
http://www.simputer.org http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/07/05/india.simputer.reut/index.html

From: Mike Rosing <eresrch*eskimo.com>
http://www.eskimo.com/~eresrch/viridian

From: Till Westermayer <till*tillwe.de>
http://www.westermayer.de/till/projekte/02gcsdl.htm

From: Duncan Stewart <stewarts*stewarts.org?>
http://www.stewarts.org/viridian/GCS

From: R. Charles Flickinger <idlewild*mac.com>
http://homepage.mac.com/iHUG/GCS2000.html

From: Kevin Prichard <kevin*indymedia.org>
http://www.nah6.com/ http://www.nah6.com/nah6-h2k2_files/v3_document.html

From: Dave Phelan <dphelan*pavilion.co.uk http://www.btinternet.com/~dphelan/viridian/gcs-computer.html

From: Dan Reynolds <orion_obrien*hotmail.com>
http://www.nv2.cc.va.us/home/alwhite2/flotsam1.htm

From: John Romans <joro*panicfire.net>
http://www.panicfire.net/cryptoviridian.htm

From: Allen Wong <threadprinter*hotmail.com>
http://www.fieldsync.com/viridian/

From: Joel Westerberg <joel*unsafe.nu>
http://www.unsafe.nu/bigmike/global.PDF

From: Chris McCormick <chris*mccormick.cx>
http://mccormick.cx/viridian/

From: Adrian Cotter <acotter*nonsensical.com>
http://www.nonsensical.com/viridian/notebook/

From: "jg" <jg*solarpc.com>
http://solarpc.com/contest.htm

From: Kevin Prichard <musicasa*prichard.org>
http://prichard.org/viridian_globcivsoc.html


Viridian Judge Mary Kaldor offers a judicial design critique:

"Dear Bruce

"My main criteria were the wow factor and the relevance to global civil society.

"On this basis the winner is:
Allen Wong's VacuumPacked Computer.

Link:
http://www.fieldsync.com/viridian/

"What I like about it is that it's simple, cheap, uses material that is to hand, and, most important, it is individualistic. It's a design-your-own computer, so no two computers will look alike. Its about self-organisation and autonomy, combined with communication and shared principles.

"The runners-up were:

Adrian Cotter's The Deck.

Link:
http://www.nonsensical.com/viridian/notebook/

"I thought this was fun and would look nice – prettier than the vacuumpacked computer. But I wasn't sure why it would be more suitable for a global citizen than, say a global corporation.

Till Westermayer's Tough Notebook.

Link:
http://www.westermayer.de/till/projekte/02gcsdl.htm

"This one had really thought through the needs of the global citizens but it wasn't quite as exciting as the others – it lacked the wow factor.

Chris McCormick.

http://mccormick.cx/viridian/

"I loved the materials. But I marked it down because of the emphasis on security and encryption (same with a lot of others). Security is for governments and corporations – global citizens trust each other and are open.

"I really enjoyed this.

"All the best, Mary"

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