http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/17/one-wilshire-building-when-digital-is-material/ mind/tech bazar from outer space Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:57:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/17/one-wilshire-building-when-digital-is-material/#comment-452740 Panic {RE}_Programming » Blog Archive » Urban informatics Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:01:17 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/17/one-wilshire-building-when-digital-is-material/#comment-452740 [...] Adam has an interesting query/blogpost about “what do you feel are the most significant contemporary developments in urban informatics? The most resonant projects, the most powerful interventions, the scariest precedents?“. That’s quite an important question that I try to ask myself for a while. Since I have not definite answer, I tried to pick up some examples I find relevant to get a messy list of “urban computing” projects: - Location-based services: be they single-user (navigational devices such as personal GPS navigator) and ones who can have a social layer (see DASH for instance) but also mobile social software - Urban screens and interactive billboards (see more about this here)…. that can display representations which allow to make explicit invisible or implicit phenomena: blogging pigeon, Real Time Rome (among other Senseable City projects), AIR, undersound or Tripwire, etc.) - open mapping projects (like open street map) and other geospatial web applications (see Jo Walsh’s stuff, especially here piece about MUDlondon) a la place-based annotations (Urban tapestries among lots of others). - Geographical Information Systems (./ although there would be a lot to say about this) - pervasive games (no list about this here but you know what I am talking about) - Identification systems such as these RFID cards you now have in most occidental cities in subways. - Defensive Space can also be supported by technologies: not only CCTV, Vsee for example the mosquito sounds to avoid teenagers loitering - Lazarus/zombie devices - infrastructures can also count: think about wiring, server farms or gigantic telecom hotels. [...] […] Adam has an interesting query/blogpost about “what do you feel are the most significant contemporary developments in urban informatics? The most resonant projects, the most powerful interventions, the scariest precedents?“. That’s quite an important question that I try to ask myself for a while. Since I have not definite answer, I tried to pick up some examples I find relevant to get a messy list of “urban computing” projects: - Location-based services: be they single-user (navigational devices such as personal GPS navigator) and ones who can have a social layer (see DASH for instance) but also mobile social software - Urban screens and interactive billboards (see more about this here)…. that can display representations which allow to make explicit invisible or implicit phenomena: blogging pigeon, Real Time Rome (among other Senseable City projects), AIR, undersound or Tripwire, etc.) - open mapping projects (like open street map) and other geospatial web applications (see Jo Walsh’s stuff, especially here piece about MUDlondon) a la place-based annotations (Urban tapestries among lots of others). - Geographical Information Systems (./ although there would be a lot to say about this) - pervasive games (no list about this here but you know what I am talking about) - Identification systems such as these RFID cards you now have in most occidental cities in subways. - Defensive Space can also be supported by technologies: not only CCTV, Vsee for example the mosquito sounds to avoid teenagers loitering - Lazarus/zombie devices - infrastructures can also count: think about wiring, server farms or gigantic telecom hotels. […]

]]> http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/17/one-wilshire-building-when-digital-is-material/#comment-452689 Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Urban informatics Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:13:55 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/17/one-wilshire-building-when-digital-is-material/#comment-452689 [...] infrastructures can also count: think about wiring, server farms or gigantic telecom hotels. [...] […] infrastructures can also count: think about wiring, server farms or gigantic telecom hotels. […]

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