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Mediated Space. Or: How to translate the logic of media into architecture
Recently I visited a seminar on Mediated Space at the Harvard School of Design. The organizers turned the usual approach to this topic – how is our experience of space changing, now that media ranging from mobile phones to urban screens have all but colonized our every day urban life? – around. Rather they, asked,…
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Event: Playpolis: Transyouth and Urban Networking in Seoul
Playpolis: Transyouth and Urban Networking in Seoul With over half of the entire global population living in cities we are facing an imminent and immense shift in how we live, work, and play. This is particularly so with the current and future development of cities as ubiquitous network environments. The city is connections, a technosocial…
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CFP & Event: From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement
From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement Call for Papers From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen – A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane, Australia June 19th, 2009 Workshop position papers…
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Event: Urban Informatics in Creative Industries: A degustation menu (Manchester)
Urban Informatics in Creative Industries: A degustation menu (Manchester) The increasing ubiquity of digital technology, internet services and location-aware applications in our everyday lives allows for a seamless transitioning between the visible and the invisible infrastructure of cities: road systems, building complexes, information and communication technology and people networks create a buzzing environment that’s alive…
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Re-making Britain from Above, and beyond
You might have seen the documentary series “Britain from Above” (if not, go check out its excellent website). It showed us some beautiful computer generated visualisations of GPS data overlayed on a satelite map of great britain. Director Cassain Harrison explained how he had surprisingly little trouble getting access to these sources after he asked…
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Telecom, transport, and (unequal) time-space compression
One of the oldest terms to think about the influence of both transport and communication technologies on the experience of time and space is “time-space compression”. This notion expresses the sense that the experience of time passing by is accelerated while the importance of distance diminished. Geographer David Harvey made the term famous, although it…
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Cellphone city art
Found via Textually.org > Engadget Mobile > Make (nice trail): Artist Jorge Colombo (Portugal) made a couple of cityscapes by drawing with his fingers in an application called Brushes on an iPhone. He also posted a short movie showing in speed-up how he created his drawings. You can see all of the drawings on his…
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MIT HTC Forum 2009 “architectural criticism in an age of digital networks”, April 7 2009, MIT Cambridge MA
(Via http://varnelis.net/blog/mit_htc_forum_2009) Javier Arbona, Mark Jarzombek, and Kazys Varnelis Blogitecture: Architecture on the Internet The state and influence of architectural criticism in an age of digital networks Tuesday, April 7 6:30 pm Room 3-133 “Has a blog actually had a significant impact on a building in the process of being designed or built? What was…
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CFP: IEEE Consumer Games Conference, London UK, Aug 25-28 2009
The Mobile City participant Martin Rieser sent us the following announcement: EEE Consumer Electronics Society’s Games Innovation Conference The International IEEE Consumer Electronics Society’s Games Innovations Conference 2009 (ICE-GIC 09) aims to be a platform for innovative research in games technologies and to make these technologies more accessible to academia and industry. The conference will…
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PhD position @LSE (London) “Mobility and ubiquitous computing”
This open PhD position may be of interest to some of our readers: Mobility and ubiquitous computing The mobility@lse research unit (mobility.lse.ac.uk), led by Dr Carsten Sorensen (www.carstensorensen.com), has since 2001 studied organisational and societal implications of mobile and ubiquitous information technology. The research has over the years built up a large body of research…
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CFP: mSociety + mGOV + mDevelopment 2-3-4 September, 2009, Barcelona, Spain
Three paralel conferences are organized in Barcelona Spain: 1) mSOCIETY 2009: The 2nd International Conference on Mobile Society 2) EURO mGOV 2009: The 4th European Conference on Mobile Government 3) mDEVELOPMENT 2009: The 1st Int. Conference on Mobile Development These conferences will be held during 2-3-4 September, 2009, in Barcelona, Spain as part of Mobile…
