The continuous partial everywhere: The aspatial city
“Peer-to-peer sharing in a talent-based information economy was the theme running through the talk by Juha van’t Zelfde from vurb, underpinned by thinking around the new atemporal, aspatial, ‘new kind of sensibility… senseable’ world that we inhabit.” Guardian
“In contemporary practice, I guess this Vurb verbiage from FutureEverywhere boils down to “my pocket keeps beeping all the time,” but, well, of course in a network society you can take everyone you know and everyone you own, and scatter them across the planet’s surface. Especially if they already did that with you.” Bruce Sterling, Wired
Alicia Framis, Departure hall for scifi citiesLast Friday I was in Manchester at the 17th edition of the incredible FutureEverything conference, which was held at the monumental Museum of Science and Industry, home of the industrial revolution. I had been invited to the festival to…
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Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada roads
Source: Ars Technica
Triposo’s Mobile Travel Guide Now Actively Recommends Your Next Destination.
Source: TechCrunch
SMART Muni App for San Francisco Transit Goes Unused - NYTimes.com
San Francisco Puts Brakes on an App for Transit
Pioneering German visualisation monitors train delays in real time | News | guardian.co.uk
Pioneering German visualisation monitors train delays in real time.
Participation by Design: Community Planning … A New App for Collaborative Geodesign.
Source: blog.placematters.org
Virtuele bouwstenen - De invloed van ict en internet
Internet bestaat pas 19 jaar. Toch heeft nu al bijna 90% van de Amsterdammers thuis een internetaansluiting en zijn zij meerdere uren per week online. Dit heeft grote gevolgen voor de stad: voor het gebruik, voor de inrichting en de ontwikkeling van Amsterdam.
Digitale connectiviteit speelt een steeds grotere rol bij de ontwikkeling van steden. Want hoe wij leven zal dankzij de techniek steeds minder bepaald worden door waar we zijn. Dit zal leiden tot veranderingen in het ruimtegebruik, onderwijs, de logistiek en de zorg.
In de toekomst zullen steden dan ook smart cities zijn. Steden waar infrastructuren, gebouwen, energie en connectiviteit worden gecombineerd met verschillende stedelijke functies, met mensen die hier gebruik van maken.
(via Amsterdam.nl - PlanAmsterdam 2-2012: Virtuele bouwstenen - De invloed van ict en internet)
Source: amsterdam.nl
In Situated Technologies Pamphlets 9, Helen Nissenbaum and Kazys Varnelis initiate a redefinition of privacy in the age of big data and networked, geo-spatial environments. Digital technologies permeate our lives and make the walls of the built environment increasingly porous, no longer the hard boundary they once were when it comes to decisions about privacy. Data profiling, aggregation, analysis, and sharing are broad and hidden, making it harder than ever to constrain the flow of data about us. Cautioning that suffocating surveillance could lead to paralyzed dullness, Nissenbaum and Varnelis do not ask us to retreat from digital media but advance interventions like protest, policy changes, and re-design as possible counter-strategies.
(via The Architectural League of New York | Situated Technologies Pamphlets 9)
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Visible Cities is a VURB research blog and recurring event in De Verdieping in Amsterdam that investigates how we might come to use networked digital resources to change the way we understand, build, and inhabit cities. 