documentário: The Century of the Self - Adam Curtis (2002)

Acabo de assistir três episódios do documentário produzido por Adam Curtis para BBC, The Century of the Self. O quarto e último deixo para amanhã pelo avançado da hora... Sugestão dessa série foi feita na aula de Teoría Crítica da Produção do Espaço Arquitetônico que eu cursei semestre passado. Realmente super interessante e recomendadíssimo.

EDIÇÃO: Terminei de ver no dia seguinte. A série toda é muito interessante, me deixou curiosa com o que seria a sequencia, já que o documentário já é relativamente antigo (14 anos atrás)

vídeo: palestra Adam Greenfield // Bartlett International Lecture Series 2015/16 - (semana 04)

Adam Greenfield // Bartlett International Lecture Series 2015/16 // from Bartlett School of Architecture on Vimeo.

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Another City Is Possible: Practices of the Minimum Viable Utopia 25.11.2015 //////////////////////////////////////////////////

Adam Greenfield discusses alternatives to the current dominant conception of technologised urbanity, specifically four aspects involved in the production of networked urban environments from the bottom up: people making data, people making things, people making places and people making networks.

Adam Greenfield is author of Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing (2006), Against the smart city (2013) and The city is here for you to use (forthcoming from Verso). His practice Urbanscale is dedicated to design for networked cities and citizens. Previously a Senior Urban Fellow at LSE Cities, Adam now co-teaches on the Bartlett School of Architecture's MArch Urban Design cluster 'Architectures of Participation' with Usman Haque.

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Palestra em uma linha similar da apresentação do Dan Hill, tratando da questão de Big Data e Smart Cities (e também com a palestra que eu assisti final do ano passado na UFMG com o professor Alessandro Aurigi)

vídeo: apresentação Dan Hill - Designing the Data City // FESG Signals of Tomorrow Conference (semana 02)

FESG Signals of Tomorrow Conference: Designing the Data City - Dan Hill from FutureEverything on Vimeo.

2016

Tirando o pó e retomando o blog para 2016!

Lightness - Italo Calvino

"Then we have computer science. It is true that software cannot exercise its powers of lightness except through the weight of hardware. But it is software that gives the orders, acting on the outside world and on machines that exist only as functions of software and evolve so that they can work out ever more complex programs. The second industrial revolution, unlike the first, does not present us with such crushing images as rolling mills and molten steel, but with "bits" in a flow of information traveling along circuits in the form of electronic impulses. The iron machines still existe, but they obey the orders of weightless bits." Italo Calvino - Six memos for the next millennium (p. 8)