Comments on: Future cities, exposed behaviours and the problem of public agency http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/01/15/future-cities-exposed-behaviours-and-the-problem-of-public-agency/ Welcome to Space and Culture - the international journal and weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds. Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:07:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: kookimebux http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/01/15/future-cities-exposed-behaviours-and-the-problem-of-public-agency/comment-page-1/#comment-1502 kookimebux Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:40:40 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/01/15/future-cities-exposed-behaviours-and-the-problem-of-public-agency/#comment-1502 Hello. And Bye. :) Hello. And Bye. :)

]]> By: Dan Hill http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/01/15/future-cities-exposed-behaviours-and-the-problem-of-public-agency/comment-page-1/#comment-536 Dan Hill Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:38:58 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/01/15/future-cities-exposed-behaviours-and-the-problem-of-public-agency/#comment-536 Thanks for the link and kind words, Anne - much appreciated. I too worry about the issue you bring up - will exposure do anything useful? Will this kind of visualisation be persuasive after all? Or will it instead either increase anxiety, or perhaps paradoxically, make it easier to ignore the cause and effect, as it becomes part of the daily information overload? The sketches are intended to throw those questions up, by drawing an imagined system. You're right to bring up the shift towards the individual too As I think (I hope!) i noted, the issues of individual behaviour pale into insignificance compared to industry's emissions, just as all those new build sustainable homes and buildings aren't really the issue in building stock; it's existing buildings that are the problem. There's no reason why extrapolations of the systems I suggest couldn't be applied there too, but it may take a (heavy) stick - such as peak oil - rather than a carrot - nice infoviz - to really change behaviour there. Thanks for the link and kind words, Anne – much appreciated. I too worry about the issue you bring up – will exposure do anything useful? Will this kind of visualisation be persuasive after all? Or will it instead either increase anxiety, or perhaps paradoxically, make it easier to ignore the cause and effect, as it becomes part of the daily information overload? The sketches are intended to throw those questions up, by drawing an imagined system.

You’re right to bring up the shift towards the individual too As I think (I hope!) i noted, the issues of individual behaviour pale into insignificance compared to industry’s emissions, just as all those new build sustainable homes and buildings aren’t really the issue in building stock; it’s existing buildings that are the problem. There’s no reason why extrapolations of the systems I suggest couldn’t be applied there too, but it may take a (heavy) stick – such as peak oil – rather than a carrot – nice infoviz – to really change behaviour there.

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