Comments on: Adam Greenfield at PicNic 2007

By: predictions for the year ahead | varnelis.net

predictions for the year ahead | varnelis.net — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:02:27 +0000

[…] if we get it right, light urbanism will be all the rage. Something along the lines of this or this or this. There are lots and lots of dangers to such scenarios, but a burst of new, heavy but green […]

By: Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » "Networked cities" session at LIFT Asia 2008

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:53:08 +0000

[…] the Big Now… and other tales of the networked city” was the follow-up of his “The City is Here for You to Use“. Adam’s approach here was “not technical talk but affective”, about what […]

By: 7.5th Floor » Blog Archive » Systems are for Cities, but Cities are for People

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:46:18 +0000

[…] See also Nicolas’ Picnic notes. […]

By: InternetActu.net

InternetActu.net — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:43:18 +0000

Vers la ville personnelle…

Andy Hudson-Smith (blog), chercheur au Centre pour l’analyse spatiale avancée vient de publier un article intitulé “le numérique urbain, la ville visuelle” (”Digital Urban, the Visual City” .pdf), dans lequel il décrit…

By: Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Criticizing Paul Virilio

Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Criticizing Paul Virilio — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:14:53 +0000

[…] which reminds me of Adam Greenfield statement that “nostalgia is for suckers” in his talk at PicNic 2007 (where he expressed that lamenting about the past of cities is not an answer). - The phenomenology […]

By: MikEnIck » Blog Archive » Afgelopen week

MikEnIck » Blog Archive » Afgelopen week — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:53:24 +0000

[…] http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/10/03/adam-greenfield-at-picnic-2007/ […]

By: Ben Kraal

Ben Kraal — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:24:01 +0000

Thank you for posting this great summary of Adam’s argument.

By: Imran

Imran — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:34:18 +0000

I think the idea of purposefully blurring information (especially relating to people) really interesting. Now that it’s possible to retrieve and broadcast information about people publicly, it seems like the focus becomes on making it more appropriate.

One example is a project from researchers at Motorola (http://web.mit.edu/bentley/www/papers/paper724-bentley.pdf) where they built a prototype that would broadcast the amount of time they are in motion vs static (based on the changes in cell towers). The information can be public, but will only have meaning to those that are close to that person and can fill in the blanks.

That decision of how much information to show and to whom, in an age where the resolution of information is getting higher and higher definitely seems like rich ground for exploration.