"I realized why it's so hard to explain to people what interactive designers do. It's because we are not only making “things.” We are actually designing “experiences” alongside our innovations. It's doesn't matter what media is used. If you know what you are doing, you can use everything to create an interactive experience. It's abstract yet very powerful."
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Been playing with the new list function on twitter.
For all you not using twitter or just starting, or those who don't follow everybody in the department, go to:
http://twitter.com/davidvnm/interactivemediadesign
You can browse the list, or immediately follow anyone on there.
Je kunt dus met een iPhone-app van Toyota je "scrobbles" uploaden die misschien op de billboard komen
Check hier de webcams op Times Square
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Track will be on the biggest techno label on earth (COCOON Records). Release date : 20 Nov!
Gevonden in mijn zoektocht naar anti reclame reclame. Iets anti's heeft het zeker wel...
On Friday Nov 6th The Mobile City organizes the Sentient Rotterdam Workshop, in collaboration with Mark Shepard. The workshop takes place as part of the Connectivity Program at the International Architectural Biennale in Rotterdam.
where: NAi Rotterdam
when: Friday November 6th 2009
12:00-17:00 Workshop introduction and sessions
17:00-19:00 Public presentation + opening exhibit Sentient City Survival Kit.
registration deadline: Monday October 27th 0:00 hours GMT
Registration form
background
Computing has left the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets and public spaces of the city. Information processing is increasingly embedded in the material fabric of everyday urban space. We approach an age of urban information systems capable of sensing and responding to events and activities transpiring around them. This is the ‘Sentient City‘. What does this emerging Sentient City mean for urban culture? Few people will quibble about ’smart’ traffic light control systems that more efficiently manage mobility. Some may be irritated when discount coupons for their favorite espresso drink are beamed to their mobile phone as they pass by Starbucks. Many are likely to protest when they are denied passage through a subway turnstile because the system ’senses’ that their purchasing habits, mobility patterns and current galvanic skin response (GSR) reading happens to match the profile of a terrorist.
workshop
How might we envision new technologies and ways of using them that are capable of enacting new urban organizations and spatial experiences that are diverse, sustainable and dynamic? This workshop aims to develop situated approaches toward urban computing and locative media applications, systems and infrastructures for near-future urban life in Rotterdam. Participants will work towards a scenario that involves a product, an intervention or process that is based on (or purposely evades or diverts) a (expected?) sentient technology. The scenarios depart not from the technology itself, but rather from imagined goals, desires or issues of urbanites. Participants (from various field such as new media design, architecture, urban planning, and academia) are asked to bring in one or more issues from their own professional practice. Ideally, these scenarios depart from the actual local context of Rotterdam. The workshop ends with a public presentation and display of results at the ‘Open Podium’ of the Architecture Biennale.
method
Methodologically, we encourage the approach of a ‘critical design’. The scenarios do not have to be immediately practically feasible, as long as they invite reflection on commonly understood preconcpetions and expectations and provoke new ways of thinking about the objects or process central to the scenarios, the cultural practices that shape them and the larger issues of urban culture they address. Mark Shepard’s own Sentient City Survival Kit which is exhibited at the NAi can be referred to as an example of this approach.
More about the IABR
The theme of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam is the Open City, a city that is diverse, lively and socially sustainable, where people can productively relate to each other culturally, socially, as well as economically. More specifically, with the theme Open City: Designing Coexistence, the 4th IABR raises the question of social cohesion in the city from the point of view of its designer: how can architects and urbanists make realistic contributions to the sustainable quality of the urban condition.
With the theme ‘Connectivity’ the IABR examines the role of digital media technologies in urban culture. Can these technologies be applied to contribute to the Open City? Or are they endangering its ideals? How can architects and designers anticipate and take advantage of these new technologies?
Apart from the workshop The Mobile City is involved in other activities:
- November 5th 20:00 Keynote with Mark Shepard, NAi Auditorium Rotterdam.
- November 6th 17:00 19:00 Opening of the Exhibition The Sentient City Survival Kit. The opening events includes a public presentation of the workshop results IABR Open Podium, NAi Rotterdam. The Exhibition will last until November 12th. This event is followed by a Pecha Kucha Program at 20:20.
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