Monday miscellany

"Dream mapping" by Susan Hiller - part of an article, or rather a series of pictures, on how artists are reinventing the atlas (here).

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Bronagh Kennedy's hand-drawn map of London is based on 1914 maps (via)

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The Rubbish Collection is the new interactive exhibition at the Science Museum. Artist Joshua Sofaer invites you to participate in collecting, sorting, photographing and documenting one month’s worth of rubbish produced by the Science Museum, in order to create a visual day-to-day archive of rubbish. Free, until 14 September.

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What is a happy building? Here are 10 such... including "Hortus conclusus" (2009 - an enclosed garden), imo the best of the Serpentine's annual pavilions.

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Lovely sequence of photos of an old couple in their garden is here. The photos were taken by Ken Griffiths of the Sunday Times, starting in 1973.

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Quilt of the week is by Benedicte Caneill - this is a detail -

See the entire quilt (Units 32: Jazzy Blues) here.

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Sad sign (via)

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Lego sign, Regent Street (via) - it'll be up till 15 July as part of "year of the bus"

A sidelight to "year of the bus" is a podcast by Joe Kerr,  a historian and tutor at the Royal College of Art - it's about why arts education should be viewed on an equal footing as other, more traditional subjects. Joe is also a bus driver, and he talks about which London bus routes he most enjoys driving and why London is bucking the trend of bus travel becoming less popular. Get the podcast here. (Interesting info about student loans and debts, too.)

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The inventor of Kevlar, the lightweight fibre used in bulletproof vests and body armour, has died aged 90. Stephanie Kwolek was a chemist at the DuPont company in Wilmington, Delaware, when she invented the stronger-than-steel fibre in 1965. It was initially intended to be used in automobile tyres.

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It costs £53 to fix a pothole. £168m will help to fix some three million potholes in England by March 2015. "A drop in the bucket" says the Local Government Association.