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Natalie Jeremijenko at the Social Cities of Tomorrow.
by NATALIA SANCHEZ Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist. She is also the director of the Environmental Health Clinic at NYU, a space where environmental issues are approached as health concerns. In her clinic the (im)patients leave the consultation not with a series of pharmaceuticals but instead with a prescription for actions that could have an impact…
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Designing Trust
by AURELIE The event Social Cities of Tomorrow that took place last Friday opened up with a series of workshops at the ARCAM (Architecture Center of Amsterdam) earlier this week and brought together local stakeholder organizations and participants from different backgrounds to brainstorm on urban design and media technologies. It was organized by The Mobile City…
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Usman Haque: Sensors and Napkins
by LAURENT HUBEEK After three long days of workshops, on Friday it was finally time for the Social Cities of Tomorrow conference event. Usman Haque was one of the day’s keynote speakers. He is perhaps best known as the founder of Pachube, an online hub for open and distributed data collection for the Internet of Things.…
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A strong social city.
by NATALIA SANCHEZ On Thursday night the four groups presented their results and prototypes that they had been respectively working on during the workshops. The event, which took place at Mediamatic, was completely sold out. “When you do an image search for the query smart city”– Martijn from the Mobile City began explaining to the audience—“mostly…
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Workshop Presentations @ Mediamatic [Part 2]
by LAURENT HUBEEK On the evening of Thursday the 16th of February the workshop teams presented their results at Mediamatic. This post will be about teams 3 and 4. The reports on teams 1 and 2 can be found here. With the presentations of team 1 and 2 over, it was time for team 3 to…