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The increased activity in the Arctic has already begun to change the content and fabric of the urban north. The continued regional development will involve meetings and fusions amongst an array of cultures and styles, between history and modernization, between civilization and nature, between east and west, between nations looking for resources and towns and cities hoping to get a share, all staged in a vast landscape with widespread urban nodes. The question is how these encounters will play out.

Northern Experiments – The Barents Urban Survey 2009 is a collaborative effort to discuss selected key cities and urban phenomena in the Barents Region, containing the northernmost areas of Norway, Sweden, Finland and of Northwest Russia. The project is directed by 0047 in co-operation with The Barents Triennale and Pikene på broen.

The above map is styled dynamically in the browser using a javascript implementation of the core architecture of the open source mapnik library (ie Layers, Styles, Rules and Filters plus a couple of Symbolizers). (Implemented by eye-balling the XML and reading the wiki, mainly).

is collaboration. Different styles, cultures, eras, technologies, views, knowledge, sources and any form of creation are relevant. All mixed together with one thing in common - self expression. Zoybar is a new form of expression, starting a new era of hardware music instruments evolution.

Every user can create his own unique instrument by its own voice and needs.

Après avoir créé un espace de communication, tous les participants peuvent manipuler simultanément l’information diffusée. Ils pourront par exemple créer, compléter puis mettre en forme un document texte enrichi de styles et d’images. Il sera alors possible de suivre l’évolution de l’information au fil du temps. C’est donc bien une véritable plate-forme de collaboration que nous propose ici Google. Ce concurrent des plates-formes traditionnelles et statiques (comme SharePoint) aura pour avantage de mettre l’aspect temps réel en avant, chose aujourd’hui unique sur le marché. La firme met ici à profit son exceptionnelle infrastructure de serveurs.