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Le photographe Axel Sigurdarson capture le paysage dramatique et puissant de Holuhraun, un désert de lave entre les montagnes d’Islande. Né et ayant grandi à Reykjavik, Sigurdarson a découvert son amour pour la photographie lors de ses voyages d’enfance à travers le pays avec sa famille. Il travaille comme photographe éditorial et commercial, et compte Icelandair, Marie Claire, Madame Figaro et Rolling Stone parmi ses clients. Plus de son travail ici et sur Instagram.

L’obsession de Brendan Pattengale pour les couleurs, alliée à sa passion pour les paysages, l’a conduit à parcourir le monde pour capturer la beauté de Dame Nature. Brendan Pattengale admet utiliser des verres de couleurs tout en restant discret sur l’ensemble du processus technique qui se cache derrière l’effet picturale de ses œuvres, plus proche de la peinture que du rendu photographique. Basé à Los Angeles, la fascination du photographe pour les paysages est née d’un voyage à Ghost Ranch au Nouveau Mexique. Sa série intitulée « Color of Love » est une illustration parfaite de sa quête frénétique de couleurs toujours plus vives.

Visitez son compte Instagram pour découvrir son portfolio.

The problem with a nuclear bomb is that it wipes out everything within its blast radius, then renders the land uninhabitable with radiation. Mass murdered Stephen Paddock sprayed a crowd with automatic fire, indiscriminately killing whomever he could get. But what if there was a way to quickly, easily, surgically kill just certain groups of people within a larger crowd?

Let’s say, for instance, that you wanted to murder just a portion of a college classroom–only the students that hold certain political views. Well, here’s how you can do that using existing technology:

The implications are terrifying; there is no hiding from these things. They can work together to breach a building. They make everything from nuclear weapons to highly trained snipers obsolete. There doesn’t seem to be any effective way to defend against them.

Which is precisely the point being made by Stuart Russell, a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Berkely. Russell, an AI expert, produced this video with the Future of Life Institute, a volunteer think-tank that tries to figure out how to keep humanity from wiping ourselves off of the planet.

The video was screened at the United Nations’ Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) in Geneva, Switzerland last week, and the hope was that this would wake international lawmakers up to the dangers of automated weaponry. Sadly, the warning appears to be falling on deaf ears. According to the Guardian, Amandeep Gill, India’s Disarmament Ambassador, “underscored that banning killer robots, or even agreement on rules, remained a distant prospect.”

“Countries do not have time … to waste just talking about this subject,” Mary Wareham of the arms division at Human Rights Watch told AFP.

She said that “militaries around the world and defence companies are sinking a lot of money” into weapons that select and destroy targets without human control.

Once this gets out, it’s out.

It’s scary to think that we’ll look back nostalgically at a time when terrorists rented vehicles to simply run people over, a few at a time.

“If this isn’t what you want,” says the video description, “please take action at http://autonomousweapons.org/.”

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Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Alice Bleton has designed a rooftop capsule to give city-dwellers a temporary retreat from their congested environment.

Shown at this year’s Dutch Design Week, the Monade Capsule is designed to give workers a place to separate themselves from the office and re-engage with their environment in a more positive way.

The pod elevates its inhabitants above the hustle and bustle of the city below while keeping them sheltered from the elements.

“As city-dwellers, our daily environment consists mainly of concrete and glass buildings,” said Bleton.

“If we cannot escape from this landscape, we need to look at things in our environment that give us air and inspiration. The Monade Capsule derives from this thought.”

Bleton took her inspiration for the capsule from living spaces that are designed for extreme conditions, like bunkers, submarines, or mountain huts.

Her minimal spaces, which she describes as “urban huts”, are intended to offer those living in built environments a quiet place and a different view viewpoint.

Comprised of 21 pieces of fibreglass, the cylindrical shell uses transparent sections to allow clear views of the area, while translucent panels filter the daylight to achieve a calming, atmospheric light.

An L-shaped cut-out in the capsule hugs the building’s edge, anchoring it partly to the rooftop and partly to the facade. This load-bearing base allows the pod to support up to five people.

“At the top of the mountain, and in the hardest reachable places, people created cabins and refuges to spend the night,” Bleton explained.

“These temporary shelters offer minimal comfort to the hikers. It’s a shared space where people gather to protect themselves from the outside climate.”

The Monade Capsule takes its name from the philosophical term “monad” meaning “unit.”

“The Greek philosopher Plotinus used this term to talk about points of view,” said Bleton.

“Each monade would offer a unique perspective on a city; since there is an infinite number of viewpoints, there could be an infinite number of monads.”

Dutch Design Week took place in Eindhoven from 21 to 29 October 2017.

Dezeen also hosted a series of talks during the festival, discussing how design can answer some of the world’s big problems – these talks are available to watch via our Good Design for a Bad World page.

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