Robert Ramser’s Golden Land with Smiling People

…sroom in a christian institution, Kalaw, 2012. Education is, in principle, free in Burma but the teachers are so badly paid that they have to give private lessons as well. The many private schools are only for the privileged. Religious institutions attempt a basic education for children of the most needy families but many such children have to work in tea shops for less than a dollar a day. The education budget is 6% of the total national budget…. Continue reading

Those Swiss cows!

…designers of posters dig deep into the national psyche. There is a kind of comfortable, traditional-rustic-alpine and non-threatening feel about the common Swiss identity. The visual key is…. yes….. cows! Images of the female bovine are everywhere. But it kind of makes sense. Milk! Swiss cheese! Swiss chocolate! However, I really don’t understand how invoking the cow theme can attract people to the Geneva Festival which is more about music, firewo… Continue reading

The Wind Tree

…ronment, the energy from winds from any direction can be harnessed. The outcome of his research is the Aeroleaf® a “biomimetic wind turbine.” The whole arborial structure upon which the 63 Aeroleaves are deployed is a design masterpiece by Geneva’s very own Claudio Colucci. NewWind’s aspirations are inspirational. “What was gigantic, NewWind has made small. What was unsightly, NewWind has made beautiful . What was unique, NewWind has multiplied …. Continue reading