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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Lisbon

Monday, January 14, 2008

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- Anne

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Every generation must build its own city

Monday, January 14, 2008

Mediapolis: Popular Culture and the City by Alex de Jong and Marc Schuilenburg
In Mediapolis the authors sound out an urban environment pulsing to the rhythm of the popular media. They introduce a pop philosophy whose concepts include the Urban Container, ’scenius,’ sonic communities and nodal urbanity. Here technological, political, cultural, economic and even military developments [...]

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Recursive city

Sunday, January 6, 2008

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- Anne

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Urban computing and situated technologies

Sunday, January 6, 2008

I presented some thoughts on technosocial devices of everyday life (pdf) at 2006’s Architecture and Situated Technologies symposium and anyone interested in the intersections between new technologies, urban form and social life should check out the first Situated Technologies Pamphlet: Urban Computing and its Discontents by Adam Greenfield and Mark Shepard.
The Situated Technologies Pamphlet [...]

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Mobile anxieties

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Mobile Anxieties – 3rd Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Architecture, Art History & Allied Fields
Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut
April 11 – 12, 2008
Call for Papers (pdf)
“The Mobile Anxieties symposium will take a critical look at the idea that mobility—both literal and metaphoric—subverts the authority of boundaries, allowing for spatiotemporal shifts, which render foundations [...]

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