October 2010
10 posts
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“The physical characteristics of walls are not decisive as to their meaning....”
– [I like that the WALL IS seen as a wall of possibilities - that a wall isn’t just a negative block. The question first is what does this wall do?
I am thinking of this quote in the context of digital urbanism - virutal walls from firewalls, closed routers, internet cafes, surveillance,...
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Thoughts on William H Whyte: Julian Bleeker's...
this is post reblogged from Julian Bleeker’s Near Future Laboratory. This is an AWESOME experiment that Julian did - he recreated William H. Whyte’s Social Life of Small spaces with a 24 foot pole.
Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » William H. Whyte Revisited: An Experiment With An Apparatus for Capturing Other Points of View
Times Square and its intriguing public...
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Theorizing the Digital City: Abstracts from 5...
[I wish that i could’ve attended this session! In the meantime I need to look up each author’s work! - tricia]
AAG - 2010 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC Session Description: From locative media to cloud computing, smartphones to embedded 2d bar codes, cities are emerging as digital platforms. Situated within and comprised of the cyber-infrastructure that makes digital environments...
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“What this means, then, is for every square metre of “actual” city, the Shenzhen...”
– Landgrab! (via slavin)
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Situated Exploitation? From Mobile Playgrounds to...
Oh i am so excited for this panel discussion for the latest Situated Technologies Pamphlet #7 featuring Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Laura Y. Liu, Trebor Scholz, and Neil Smith.
I’m in Brooklyn these days so I’ll be attending! If you come, let’s hug each other! You’re supposed to reserve the $10 tickets by sending them email (rsvp@archleague.org).
You can download the PDF...
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Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media Urbanism, by Ravi...
[I’m very excited to read this book by Ravi Sundaram! A definite must for digital urbanism reading list. I’m excited to think about his work in the context of Chinese migrants.]
Using Delhi’s contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions...
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Calling Applicants for Oct. 21st 2010 Deadline for...
Mapping: Open Street Maps in the Occupied Palestinian Territories | Visualising Women’s Rights
[My colleagues at Tactical Tech are launching this awesome mapping project in the Arab World, led by Maya Ganesh. I would love to see some strong applicants for their upcoming workshop in Jordan, 5 – 8 December 2010. The exciting thing about this workshop is that 10 campaigns out of this...
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Urban China 2030: Heritage, Identity, and... →
Monday, November 01, 2010 at 8:00 AM - to - Tuesday, November 02, 2010 at 5:30 PM
Urban China 2030
Studio-X Beijing A103, 46 Fangjia Hutong Andingmen Inner Street, Dongcheng District Beijing 100007 China
China today has overtaken Japan as the second largesteconomy in the world. Urbanization in China is urgent, incessant, and of gargantuan proportions. In the last two decades, cities and urban...
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not on map = non-existent: the real effects of...
watch the video from BBC News - World News America - US city erased from Google maps
CNN - Google Maps ‘loses’ major Florida city, by John D. Sutter
(CNN) — It’s home to 90,000 people, one of the nation’s biggest malls, a National Hockey League team and, the city’s mayor boasts, the first IKEA store in the state.
But, for at least a month this summer,...
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Mobile Design Conference: Designing and...
[Here’s a conference that I wish I could attend! Esp because kevin is speaking at and esp because Barcelona is one of my fave cities in the world. The workshop on Co-Creating the Networked City seems awesome. -tricia[]
Barcelona Design Week - Mobile Design Conference and Workshop - At the beginning of a new decade, the technology paradigm of anytime, anywhere, anyhow has become a reality...