Who does the city work for?
Where do people play in cities?
What new inequalities are created in cities?
What are the emergent third places in cites?
What new technologies are built for cities?
How do future scenarios of cities seduce policy makers, planners, and designers?
This blog is where I track my interests in 1.) how people use cities, 2.) how cities use people, and 3.) the spatial production of knowledge that comes out of cities.
Urbanism refers to processes that drive people to live in cities. My idea of Digital Urbanisms refers to processes that drive people to online sociality. I am interested in how Digital Urbanism presents a new geography of constraints and mobilities where the materiality of living in cities and its digital infrastructures are becoming mutually constituted. Being urban is not an outcome, it is a process, and this process now takes place online just as much as it takes place offline.
I spoke about Digital Urbanism in China at SXSW, Sleeping in Internet Cafes: The Next 300 Million Chinese Users.
Digital Urbanism is also a term that architectural theorists use. While architects focus on the form of the city as a digital space, I employ digital urbanism to refer to the people that inhabit the city and are experiencing the shift where everyday urban life is increasingly mediated by digital tools.
I use Digital Urbanisms in the plural because I want to emphasize that there is more than one digital urban future. Also the url for singular Digital Urbanism wasn't available, so that is how I ended up with a domain name in Monstserrat (.ms), which conveniently makes Digital Urbanisms plural!
My articles are here and talks are here. I write longer posts on Cultural Bytes and Byes of China.
My primary personal blog is Hi Tricia!.
I have like 20 other blogs where I put out more silly than thoughtful; the full list on my website.
I curate a reading list on cities and technology that is continually being updated If you have any readings to add to this list that you or another person has written, please let me know!
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CFP for “Designing the Hybrid City” @ the World Expo in Shanghai, Aug. 2010
Organized by the folks at The Mobile City and The Virtueel Platform, Designing the Hybrid City is a conference “on the role of digital media and technologies in urban design.” The conference is taking place at the Dutch Cultural Centre located at the World Expo in Shanghai from August 16-17 2010.
The conference’s goal is to look at how digital media use changes the urban landscape from culture to design.
Who is this for? We invite professionals involved in the shaping of the 21st-century city to join us in Shanghai. Whether you are a city planner, architect, (academic) researcher, artist, media- or interface designer, or developer of mobile apps, what counts is that you have an open mind towards other disciplines, and that you like to discuss your ideas and experiences and show your best practices.
Submit your proposal before April 22, 2010! I wish I could be in Shanghai for this!
And the best part so far? Jack Qiu and Isaac Mao are keynoting the conference!
Thanks Marcella for bringing this to my attention!
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