My dissertation looks at how pervasive computing and locative media practitioners treat cities as interaction design spaces and publics as co-creators, so I’m always interested in how people are envisioning future cities. Dan Hill recently pointed to the Living City project, in which three alternative and parallel futures are explored:
Living City is an ecology of […]
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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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- Anne
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 […]