Archive for the 'Techno-science' Category

Presents past

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Worth1000 - Vintage Ads Photoshop Contest (via textually)

Nintendo Wii by gugacurado

Segway by DocMinor

Nokia Mobile by RebelD0g
- Anne

The complex (data) behaviours of the street

Monday, February 11th, 2008

I never cease to be impressed by the quality of Dan Hill’s thinking and writing on urban spaces and technology. In his most recent post on the street as platform, Dan claims that “the way the street feels may soon be defined by what cannot be seen with the naked eye.” He draws out detailed […]

Ubiquitous space and culture

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

For those not familiar with Korea’s New Songdo City, it’s “the first new city in the world designed and planned as an international business district. Overall, it will include 45 million square feet of office space, 30 million square feet of residential space, 10 million square feet of retail, 5 million square feet of hotel […]

Urban Panic

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Where shall we run? Can Matt Tiessen’s desire paths be collective? Thanks to Pruned and Nicholas my attention was drawn to the increasing interest in simulating city life - in this case, Paul Torrens’ geosimulation work on predicting the actions of pedestrians and crowd behaviour. Maybe simulated crowds could help the depopulating […]

Urban computing and situated technologies

Sunday, January 6th, 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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