Long ignored beyond the developing world, bamboo (a grass, not a tree) has the compressive strength of concrete and the tensile strength of steel. Unlike those materials, it sequesters carbon as it grows instead of emitting it while it’s made.
It replenishes rapidly, shooting up by as much as three feet per week. It’s hollow and lightweight. There’s no wood that can compete with that. Mexican architecture firm CO-LAB recently designed Luum Temple, a bamboo pavilion in Tulum, Mexico.
https://www.autodesk.com/redshift/bamboo-construction/
This is an example of the benefits of creating an innovative culture where employees are encouraged to come up with ideas that help the business. Seen at Sephora.
A Felt Experience and Empathy Lab at the UNSW Galleries offers an opportunity to experience constraint, entrapment and depression through the traditional indigenous story of The Man in the Log via virtual reality. It's an innovative, Aboriginal-led project that helps understanding of mental health issues. It also warns that you should not go into a hollow log in case you get stuck!
www.npywc.org.au/news/uti-kulintjaku-and-smiling-mind-guided-meditations-launched
California’s One Concern is an example of a next-generation disaster management service that provides a model for what could be achieved in Australia.
It has partnered with various city governments, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, to create virtual models of particular regions’ physical environment, by assigning “digital fingerprints” to each significant feature of that environment.
The service constantly monitors any thermal shifts and seismic movement across the sensor network. Processing this data together with historical data allows One Concern to run simulations to help determine the best course of action while a disaster event is unfolding.
https://theconversation.com/amp/virtual-
