The physics professor Joël Chevrier tells us about the creation process of Isaac&Graham in collaboration with designer Mathieu Lehanneur; a story that reveals micro-energy and the joint work of a designer, a physicist, and a technologist.Isaac&Graham is a deceptively simple setup (that’s the very point): a crank allows you to easily lift a 20 kg weightContinue reading “Isaac&Graham: when gravity powers smartphones”
Category Archives: Anthropocene
The science-fiction scenario of an artificial planet is already here
On December 9, 2020, researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel published a study in the journal Nature titled “The global mass produced by man exceeds all living biomass”. The article summary sets the scene: “We find that Earth is exactly at the crossover point; in the year 2020 (±6), the anthropogenic mass,Continue reading “The science-fiction scenario of an artificial planet is already here”
Once upon a time… the atmosuicide of Earthlings
“Air is the only matter we inhabit”. This quote, reported by architectural historian Cyrille Simonnet in Brève histoire de l’air, is attributed to Yves Klein. Do we often think of “inhabiting matter”? Not really! Yet we live in the air, that omnipresent material in our daily lives that we neither see nor feel.
How to teach from United Nations sustainable development goals (SDG)?
Can the UN’s sustainable development goals SDG help us to look at a different way of teaching in the face of the challenges posed by climate change and biodiversity collapse ?
After Sadi Carnot, teaching energy beyond the thermo-industrial civilization, a challenge of our time
We still teach energy, the heart of the thermo-industrial society in the footsteps of Sadi Carnot (1796-1832). How can we draw inspiration from him to explore, with the students, another future?
Olafur Eliasson: a Science & Design alliance building activism in the face of world transitions
Today, but already yesterday, energy and switches, the Smartphone and the designer Jony Ive. Tomorrow, but already today, the works of Olafur Eliasson to be together facing the transitions of the world.
Little Sun Lamp by Olafur Eliasson: Energy, a material of the artwork ?
With Little Sun Lamp, Olafur Eliasson and Frederik Ottesen produce an altruistic artwork here. This work is very contemporary in its artistic, social and scientific resonance. Putting these three aspects into perspective is the subject of this article.
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