Technology comforts and social discontent in Southern California
Exurban Noir Workshop
September 17&18, Ubicomp 2006
Orange County, California“The Exurban workshop seeks to include a wide range of risk-taking urban practitioners that will undertake a two-day active exploration of exurban noir. Whether we like it or not, as urban designers and researchers we are contributing in unknown but significant ways in choosing our future technological urban lifestyles. Are we making it better or worse? For whom? And when? With Orange County, the ultimate in exopolis, as a backdrop, we will collectively undertake this challenge of understanding the relationship between future technology comforts and social discontent.”
Submission Deadline: June 16, 2006
Great idea, great organisers, too bad I can’t go. But you can, can’t you?
Just remember to check out what goes on in The OC and in Orange County, as well as Lewis Mumford’s The City Part I & Part II (1939) before you submit your paper.
Also check out the workshop paper (pdf) - it’s part splintering urbanism, part design noir, a whole lotta theme park weirdness and it starts with a Calvino quote.
Thanks Eric!