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Event: Discussions on Networked Publics: Place, New York 3/25/2010
The Network Architecture Lab continues “Discussions on Networked Publics,” a series of panels examining how technology and social changes are transforming the public realm, held at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation’s [GSAPP’s] Studio-X Soho Facility, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610, New York City. The second panel, on “place” will occur on March 25 at…
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Publication: Situated Technologies Pamphlet 6: MicroPublicPlaces
Situated Technologies Pamphlet 6: MicroPublicPlaces Spring 2010 Marc Böhlen and Hans Frei In response to two strong global vectors: the rise of pervasive information technologies and the privatization of the public sphere, Marc Böhlen and Hans Frei propose hybrid architectural programs called Micro Public Places (MMPs). MPPs combine insights from ambient intelligence, human computing, architecture,…
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Event:Electrosmog Festival (Amsterdam, March 18-20)
International Festival for Sustainable Immobility http://www.ElectroSmogFestival.net http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=365624342173 http://www.DeBalie.nl/live March 18 – 20, 2010 Concept ElectroSmog is a new festival that revolves around the concept Sustainable Immobility. The festival will introduce and explore this concept in theory and practice. With Sustainable Immobility we refer to a critique of current systems of hyper mobility of people and…
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Design Approaches for the 21st Century City
At The Mobile City, we are currently researching the design processes that shape the cities of the 21st century, and bumped into an interesting paradox (also pointed out by others): The experience of our present day city in every day life is increasingly a hybrid one – meaning that it is made up of both…
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Dutch TV program ‘Digital Traces’ – March 17 2010 20:50 NL2
Wednesday March 17, 20:50 Teleac + VPRO (two Dutch public television stations) will broadcast the program Labyrint about the internet of things. Guest speakers are Christian van ’t Hof (Rathenau instituut), Rob van Kranenburg, Bart Jacobs (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), Jaap-Henk Hoepman (TNO), Melanie Rieback (VU). More info here [in Dutch] >>
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CfP: Convergence Journal special issue “mobile gaming and convergent mobile media”
Our friend down under Larissa Hjorth forwarded this Call for Papers for a special issue of Convergence Journal about mobile gaming and convergent mobile media. Convergence Special Issue Distractedly engaged: mobile gaming and convergent mobile media Deadline for full and final submissions: 31 July 2010 From casual games on the mobile phone to fully-fledged networked,…
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Mobile Monday #15 “Internet of Things” March 29 2010, Amsterdam
The Dutch chapter of Mobile Monday will organize a meeting about “Internet of Things and Beyond”. From their announcement: Why does a superpower like China focus on the internet of things? Did you know Gartner reported that by year end 2012, physical sensors will create 20% of the non-video internet traffic? In the March edition of the McKinsey…
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Augmented Reality: its promises and shortcomings for architects
Last week our friends & collegues at Vurb and Non-Fiction organized an evening about the opportunities of Augmented Reality for architects. Layer-developer Johannes la Poutre presented some of his recent projects, and Ole Bouman – director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute – was interviewed about SARA – an AR-app developped by the NAi. It…
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Workshop ‘The Media City’ March 22 – April 3 2010 NIMK, Amsterdam
From March 22 – April 3, the Netherlands Media Art Institute and Time Frame will host ‘The Media City’ workshop, dedicated to the exploration of narrative architecture and social interaction on public spaces. The Media City is a specialized project development workshop for urban projections in Amsterdam. From March 22 to April 3, eight top…
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Call for Contributions: The City as Interface @ Impakt Online
This is a call for art projects that fit the topic of ‘the City as Interface’. Impakt Online invites artists, architects, urban planners, researchers, programmers and the like to submit their proposals for online projects that consider the city as interface, buildings as responsive surfaces, mobile phones as tools for playing and mapping, and technological…
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Sonic Acts 2010: On the Poetics of Hybrid Space
I just visited an interesting panel on the Sonic Acts 2010 Conference called The Poetics of Hybrid Space. When over here at The Mobile City we talk about Hybrid Space, we usually refer to the work of Adriana de Souza e Silva who in several articles has convincingly argued against the dichotomy between physical or…
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Visible Cities #02 – March 3 2010 20:00 Amsterdam
The widespread employment and adoption of ubiquitous computing, sensor networks and mobile media into the urban environment have unforeseen implications for how our cultures might come to use networked digital resources to change the way we understand, build, and inhabit cities. Visible Cities presents a revolving programme on how emerging technologies are changing the cities…
