Como 1: Airport
Como (Photographer: Albyper/Flickr) (click-2-enlarge)
Generally airports are considered a hazard. All airports in the Netherlands, big and small, receive huge amounts of complaints about the noise of the airplanes flying over. Before I visited Como a couple weeks ago, I could hardly imagine an airport potentially being a positive thing. In Como however it seems it is.
Let me explain. Como is a small Italian city about an hour north of Milan. The lake the city lies at, Lake Como, is heavily used by all kinds of boats, but also by Aero Club Como. On a good day small planes continuously fly off, either to give tourists another perspective on the landscape or just for the sports of it. Instead of using an airstrip the planes take off from the lake.
Land Art Generator Initiative
Looking at the city from Site 1 (Copyright Land Art Generator Initiative) (click-2-enlarge)
There is still a week to submit a proposal in the Land Art Generator Initiative competition. The brief of this competition is to design a land art slash energy generating apparatus, an art installation that turns harvesting energy into something evocative. The ambitious goal of the competition is to try to connect the arts with the utilitarian technologies of sustainability.