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Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – “For too many years we believed technology would solve problems,” and now we’re learning that’s not quite true, architect-engineer-designer Carlo Ratti says. It needs a helping hand from humanity, it turns out, or in one of the most moving (literally) projects he’s worked on, helping feet: sustainable clubbing in Rotterdam takes human energy from the dance floor, pulls it down and turns it into the electricity used for interactive visuals and to light the dance floor.
Ratti told a crowd during the Lift09 conference in Geneva last week (25-28 February) that some of the most creative thinking about sustainability is coming from individuals and small businesses.
Updated 03 March: links added Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The title of the fourth annual Lift conference, “Where did the future go?” was set long before the current global crisis started making daily headlines. The idea, Lift found Laurent Haug says, came out of a feeling that we have reached a turning point with technology, where we have a need to look back to our ideas about the future as well as forward. The topic has attracted a record attendance of some 800 people to Lift09, which kicked off Thursday morning 26 February.
