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Category Archives: Techno-science

Urban Panic

Tuesday, January 15, 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 [...]

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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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Individualist politics

Thursday, December 6, 2007

In Hertzian Tales, Tony Dunne describes the work of Architekturbüro Bolles+Wilson as “less about the poetics of revealing the world as it is, and more about charging architectural space with psychological dimensions derived from acknowledging hertzian space.”
I suspect these words also aptly describe a lot of what passes as social interaction within pervasive computing and [...]

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Gazette

Thursday, November 22, 2007

“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, [...]

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Imagining the future city

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Watch 2057 – The City to see a world where “machines interact like people” and “buildings, cars, streets and even your clothing will exchange data around the clock”…

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