artigo: The Computer for the 21st Century - Mark Weiser

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

link para o artigo completo

originalmente publicado em:
Scientific American - Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks,
September, 1991

vídeo: Urbanizing Technology - Saskia Sassen / PICNIC Festival 2011

vídeo: Transmedia Design - Beth Coleman / PICNIC Festival 2011

Beth Coleman discusses critical aspects of the emergent (and emergently massive) fields of locative media and participatory design.

Coleman is the primary investigator of the Pervasive Media/City as Platform research and design lab at MIT, where she is an assistant professor of comparative media studies. She is a Berkman Center for Internet and Society Faculty Fellow at Harvard University and a Microsoft Research New England Research Fellow.

PICNIC Festival 2011 - Theme: Urban Futures

"The world is undergoing the largest wave of population growth in history: we are looking at more than 8 billion people in 2030 and essentially all of the growth will take place in the less developed countries, concentrated among the poorest populations in urban areas. By that time at least 70% of the world population will be living in an urban environment."

Investigating several urban future scenarios, including perspectives on:

Infrastructure
(mobility, sewage, utility grids, street plan, public transport, public and private buildings, public services)

Sustainability
(waste, water, green energy, pollution, Co2, building green, nano-tech, urban gardens, economy, bio-tech, food)

Society
(governance, open data, health, education, social cohesion, poverty, democratization, privacy, aging, immigration, safety)

Design
(city planning, architecture, health care, educational system, green, social change, data visualization, products, services)

Media
(urban screens, social media, gamification, trans media, augmented city, open versus closed, privacy, social engineering)

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video: Wireless in the world

Wireless in the world 2 from timo on Vimeo.

Retematizando o blog, posto um vídeo de Timo Arnall, que representa uma visualização do invisível, ou seja, através do vídeo faz visível as tecnologias wireless no ambiente urbano. Essa estratégia busca através da visualização um melhor entendimento dessa camada de fluxos invisíveis que compõe nosso ambiente.

"This new urban landscape is no longer predicated solely on architecture and urbanism. These disciplines now embrace emerging methodologies that bend the physical with new measures, representations and maps of urban dynamics such as traffic or mobile phone flows. Representations of usage patterns and mapping the life of the city amplify our collective awareness of the urban environment as a living organism. These soft and invisible architectures fashion sentient and reactive environments."

vídeo: apresentação The Alphabet and the Algorithm - Mario Carpo

via: socks-studio