PUBLIC MARKS with tags culture & societé

"If you see the badges of Foursquare they are designed for U.S. culture or West culture. My favorite badge is gym rat. A gym rat in the U.S. is someone who is actively working in the gym. If you see someone here and you give him this badge, that is insulting," he said.

the Pirahã are rooted in the present. They don't discuss the future or the distant past. They don't have a belief in gods or an afterlife. And they have a strong cultural resistance to the influence of outsiders, dubbing all non-Pirahã "crooked heads." They responded to Everett's evangelism with indifference or ridicule.

Je suis français par ma mère, musulman de culture, tunisien par mon père et humain par mon espèce. Et j’ai mal partout. A ma France qui a enfanté celui là, à mon islam qui est l’’explication donnée par ce fou, à mon Maghreb qui est l’explication des témoins, à mon humanité pour ces innocentes victimes. Nous devons tous être unis contre ce type d’individus, arrêtez de nous désunir.

The MA in Culture, Materials and Design is for people who are interested in developing their people-skills, and ways of thinking about culture and society, to work alongside, and with, designers, engineers, heritage professionals, environmentalists, materials scientists, and others with a pragmatic interest in materials and design.

Richer couples! Cheaper mortgages! Millions of unwanted houses! Despite all this, young home owners declined for 30 years, even before the Great Recession. Here's how the American Dream shrank.

This has prompted a great deal of innovation, but also a complexity, speed and capacity for amplification that makes the world a difficult and dangerous place for many organizations and human-made systems designed for a slower and simpler era.

As the mood grew increasingly acrimonious, some clever-clogs coined a word for the people departing: 'flyjin', a combination of 'fly' and 'gaijin'. The nastiness of the term

A book printed through a printing chain made of four desktop printers using four different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976. A production process that brings together small scale and large scale production, two sides of the same history.

A general consideration is that graphs are focused on nodes and that all real life networks are finite. Being finite co-ordinate systems, networks contain in themselves means of ideological control.

The results may be primitive by professional standards, and structurally unsound when confronted with hurricanes and earthquakes, but they nevertheless reflect considerable inventiveness and ingenuity in the face of daunting economic and social conditions. Their very existence is a a manifestation of human spirit and community.

“I feel relieved that we did not find a solution in this discussion, because now I know, although my own company doesn’t know a solution either, it is not the problem of my company, but the society.” W

More to the point, Portigal makes clear what can happen when we encounter things that don’t fit into our worldviews: we marginalise or dismiss them. He challenges designers to question how they react to discomfort and to ask if or how their discomfort leads to the marginalisation of particular needs, target users and design solutions. And that’s an awesome challenge!

This is what culture actually looks like: a process of argument, of dissenting and accreting opinion, of gradual and not always correct codification.

Learning Japanese business culture is always a hot topic for those looking to deal on this side of the Pacific, but little do many know that Japanese young adults are almost just as confused by the the traditions and hype surrounding the complex world of Japanese shafuu.

In a 2009 survey of 1,154 high school girls, by the Culture Studies Institute in Tokyo, hostessing ranked No. 12 out of the 40 most popular professions, ahead of public servant (18) and nurse (22).

Presentation is everything in Japan. Go to any department store and buy even a small sack of tea, and the time and effort put into packing up your purchase is enough to astound any n00b Westerner. This tradition goes way back, of course. First published in 1967 and long out of print, this picture-heavy book of classic Japanese packaging has finally been reprinted in paperback. The title is misleading. There are no step-by-step directions, only black and white images up front with annotations in the back, detailing the materials used, region, specific use/occasion/tradition surrounding each item.

Platform21’s Repair Manifesto opposes throwaway culture and celebrates repair as the new recycling.

With our project Platform21 = Repairing we seek to make repairing cool again – with your help. Let the manifesto inspire you, comment on it or add to it. Rediscover the joy of fixing things and share your most ingenious repair to compete in the Most Remarkable Repair contest.

In Platform21 the work of designers and artists inspires to repair your own possessions, which you can do in the different repair stations. And if you know of good repairpersons or master a forgotten technique, we ask you to share it with us.

This project is about sharing knowledge and skills. Together we can start a movement, one that isn’t new per se but has been forgotten. So if you know a way to save a product, let us know by emailing info [at] platform21.com.

3. L'OLED offre un angle de vision de 180° Contrairement aux écrans LCD des premières générations, les images affichées sur un écran OLED sont visibles quelle que soit la position du spectateur par rapport à l'écran. Un avantage certain pour un produit nomade.

What we consider to be good technical writing often reflects an American cultural perspective. One facet of this cultural orientation is that technical writing tends to use a low-context style.

Ministry of Education of Perú

We are in a fragmenting culture, where our certainties of even a few decades ago are questioned and where it is common for young men and women, who have had years of education, to know nothing of the world, to have read nothing, knowing only some speciality or other, for instance, computers.