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 […]
Meatropolis by Nicholas de Monchaux
[B]oth images represent a system of commonly understood distinctions, rendered in order to negotiate the body of a complex system: the city, the (bovine) body. Just as we need arbitrary designations to govern the path of a knife, or palate, around and through the body of the cow, so we need […]
Kingwell’s recent article in Walrus Magazine describes some of the ironies of the creative (i.e. bourgeois bohemian or “bobo”) class in cities like Toronto. He suggests that the political dimension of cities is lacking in our Richard Florida-informed “creative economy,” and that justice must be rethought and reconsidered. An excerpt:
The hucksters and tourism shills […]
(via Kevin Kelly’s Street Use)
- Anne
“Over a period of six weeks 128 students from the Academy for Urban Planning in Bushwick, Brooklyn took an in-depth look at media, geography, war, love, and architecture. The Alternative Urban Perspectives zine (9MB pdf) is the result of their visual and textual explorations” - From The Center for Urban Pedagogy in New York City, […]