December 2009
74 posts
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“The crystal is in many senses the form of time, the ‘chronotope’ of...”
– Christopher Vitale
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The Networkological approach: a philosophy of... →
“No entity is ever absolute, but rather an element of more encompassing frames of reference, and no product is ever more fundamental than the process of its production. Thus all networks are necessarily dynamic, that is, relational entities in process. As expressions of the whole from which they emerge, each entity and network are ultimately perspectives thereupon. The Networkological...
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Hegel’s Logic as Chronotope for the Digital Age:... →
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AG: The ahistoricity of interaction design →
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“The increasing presence of soft infrastructures embedded with the urban fabric...”
– Fabien Girardin
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Breakout! creates alternative venues for... →
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Dan Hill & Carlo Ratti: Multidisciplinary urbanism →
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“complex urban systems are well beyond the ken of the sole master builder; they...”
– from Dan Hill’s comments on the Sentient City exhibit.
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Kazys Varnelis on Battle suits →
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Digital Cities: utopian, critical and imaginary... →
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networked locative devices that interrupt you to... →
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Ubiquitous Learning →
A new educational paradigm made possible in part by the affordances of digital media
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Personal Informatics: Know Thyself →
Personal informatics is a class of tools that help people collect personally relevant information for the purpose of self-reflection and self-monitoring.
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Complexity Maps: a system for local information... →
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Localizing the virtual: denCity.net is about the... →
qr-codes are used to tag buildings and urban sites creating virtual networks of real places.
via spime
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MONU: magazine on critical urbanism →
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Trying to be Calm: Ubiquity, Cognitivism and... →
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Neuroplasticity - Is GPS actually harming our... →
The use of GPS (a cognitive artifact) can decrease the size of the hippocampus, an area of the brain responsible for cognitive mapping and way-finding.
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“we are living in a space in which the public is reconfigured by a multitude of...”
– Eric Kluitenberg, “The Network of Waves: Public Agency in Hybrid Space”
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“In the networked city, the pressing need is for translators: people capable of...”
– Adam Greenfield, “Digital Cities: Words on the street”
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the ecosystem model of news →
“It is the beginning of a new existence, and indeed the beginning of a new...”
– Manuel Castells,”The rise of the Network Society”, p. 509
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“The most important aspect of emerging urban u-communities is expected to be the...”
– Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, “Urban u-community: a new dimension of urban development”
In New Songdo City, a “ubiquitous city” being built in South Korea, all major information systems (residential, medical, business, governmental, etc.) share data, and computers are to be built...
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The Design of the Hybrid City of the Near Future →
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MAS CONTEXT →
The 4th issue “Living” explores how LIVING is unique, complex, mutable, rough, trendy, and enjoyable.
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Citysourced →
The city is a Platform →
from the Open Cities conference, “New Media’s Role in Shaping Urban Policy”
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Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to... →
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Transmedia & the Urban Field
Since the later half of the twentieth century, notions of “the City” have been characterized by modern/post-modern, fordist/post-fordist, globalization/localization, and space/time dichotomies. More recently, “urban” is defined in relation to that which it is apparently not; sub-urban. Contemporary discussions around Dona Harroway’s cyborgs and transurbanism have begun to...
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Proposal for an Open Augmented Reality Network →
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the “Transfigured City:” Shared Augmented... →
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What is Transmedia? →
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the city is a sociotechnical phenomenon
Bill Hillier (2009) “The city as a socio-technical system: a spatial reformulation”
Stephen Graham (2001) “The city as a sociotechnical process”
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“cities are hybrid phenomenon that emerge from the interactions between human and...”
– Marina Alberti, “Advances in Urban Ecology”, p.6
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Prairie/City Hybrid Metabolisms →
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Relational Urbanism: feedback, learning, &... →
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URBZ: user-generated cities →
Urban engagement is mainly about flows of knowledge, exchanges between specialists and users, about valuing different modes of creative expression and recognizing that inhabitants are the biggest experts.
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The ReFashion lab: building digital matter and... →
Beyond the static notion of architectural design, spatial program and digital content start to converge into a new entity.
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hybrid narratives: space and transmedia →
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Snowball fight in Times Square NYC →
Place is part of something ongoing and dynamic, an ingredient in something else - Edward Casey, “Fate of Place: A philosophical History”, p. 286
“Place” is a diverse social process rather than a discrete unit of euclidean territory. Places are an articulated moment in networks of social relations and understandings. According to David Harvey, place reflects ”the...
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Urban flow →
“what you see in my images is not space but tangible time.” - Adam Magyar
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“the experience of the city is increasingly subject to the flow and interchange...”
– “Flow and interchange: mobility as a quality of urbanism” by Alex Wall, p. 159
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“The metropolis has replaced the city, and as a consequence architecture as a...”
– After the City by Lars Lerup. p.22-23
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“Chains of related innovation bind infrastructure networks to broader...”
– Splintering Urbanism by Stephen Graham & Simon Marvin