Visible Cities

The continuous partial everywhere: The aspatial city

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:01:56 +0200

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

juhavantzelfde:

Alicia Framis, Departure hall for scifi cities

Last 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…

Re-Imagining the City in the Age of Social Media

Wed, 09 May 2012 15:47:33 +0200

Re-Imagining the City in the Age of Social Media

Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada...

Wed, 09 May 2012 09:54:50 +0200

Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada roads

Triposo’s Mobile Travel Guide Now Actively Recommends Your Next...

Wed, 09 May 2012 08:37:45 +0200

Triposo’s Mobile Travel Guide Now Actively Recommends Your Next Destination.

Citibank Pays to Put Name on Shared Bikes.

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:20:21 +0200

Citibank Pays to Put Name on Shared Bikes.

London to test ‘smart city’ operating system.

Sat, 05 May 2012 10:35:04 +0200

London to test ‘smart city’ operating system.

Holy Crap: This MIT Robot Might One Day Weave A Building |...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:30:00 +0200

Holy Crap: This MIT Robot Might One Day Weave A Building | Co.Design: business innovation design)

SMART Muni App for San Francisco Transit Goes Unused - NYTimes.com

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:20:23 +0200

SMART Muni App for San Francisco Transit Goes Unused - NYTimes.com:

San Francisco Puts Brakes on an App for Transit

Surely there’s a smarter approach to smart cities? (Wired...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:52:24 +0200

Surely there’s a smarter approach to smart cities? (Wired UK)

Pioneering German visualisation monitors train delays in real time | News | guardian.co.uk

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:40:15 +0200

Pioneering German visualisation monitors train delays in real time | News | guardian.co.uk:

Pioneering German visualisation monitors train delays in real time.

Tracking everything, Placeme is the smartphone assistant of the...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:01:34 +0200

Tracking everything, Placeme is the smartphone assistant of the future.

Participation by Design: Community Planning … A New App for...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:32:04 +0200

Participation by Design: Community Planning … A New App for Collaborative Geodesign.

Printable Houses and the Massive Wave of Opportunity it will...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:32:17 +0200

Printable Houses and the Massive Wave of Opportunity it will bring to Our Future)

Virtuele bouwstenen - De invloed van ict en internet Internet...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:45:49 +0200

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)

In Situated Technologies Pamphlets 9, Helen Nissenbaum and Kazys...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:16:42 +0200

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)

Citytracking, a two-year project, to change the way people view,...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:28:34 +0200

Citytracking, a two-year project, to change the way people view, talk about, utilize digital city services (via City Tracking)

If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:46:23 +0200

If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from “Star Trek,” don’t worry. It’s most likely just a Google employee testing the company’s new augmented reality glasses. On Wednesday, Google gave people 20/20 vision about a secret augmented-reality project called Project Glass. The glasses are the company’s first foray into wearable computing. The glasses are not yet ready for sale. Google will, however, be testing them in public. (via Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses - NYTimes.com)

App Battles Driver Distraction but Spares Passengers - Technology Review

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:09:07 +0100

App Battles Driver Distraction but Spares Passengers - Technology Review:

A new approach detects when a driver is using a phone to inhibit dangerous phone use.

First episode of Nederland van Boven

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:03:00 +0100

An analysis of public records shows that more than 400...

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:14:11 +0100

An analysis of public records shows that more than 400 technology start-ups in New York City have raised money from investors in the last two years. The vast majority of these companies have landed in Midtown South, within blocks of venture capital investors and veteran start-ups. The area’s affordable rent and popular restaurants and bars are a big draw. Many of the companies are working to use technology to reshape the city’s established industries, like retail, finance, health care and entertainment.

(via Technology Footprint: Starting Up in New York - Graphic - NYTimes.com)