Some of you may be interested in this lecture/walkshop touching on themes that will be explored during the conference. This event is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, a day before the official opening of the conference. Hope to see some of you there! You can find more information about this lecture/walkshop and buy tickets for this event here.
Elements of a Networked Urbanism Lecture (November 10, 2010, 5:45 pm to 7:30 pm)
Over the past several years, we’ve watched as a very wide variety of objects and surfaces familiar from everyday life have been reimagined as networked information-gathering, -processing, -storage, and -display resources. Why should cities be any different?
What happens to urban form and metropolitan experience under such circumstances? What are the implications for us, as designers, consumers and as citizens.
Join Urbanscale's Adam Greenfield as he explores the real-time, read/write city in fifteen key transitions.
Walkshop (November 11, 2010, 2:30pm to 5:00pm)
Systems/Layers is a half-day “walkshop,” held in two parts. The first portion of the activity is dedicated to a slow and considered walk, during which we'll be looking for appearances of the networked digital in the physical, and vice versa: apertures through which the things that happen in the real world drive the “network weather,” and contexts in which that weather affects what people see, confront and are able to do.
Visions of networked urbanism tend to live in what Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell call a "proximate future," that just-over-the-horizon window of time that never actually seems to arrive. But how do networked services inform our choices and experiences in the real city that we actually inhabit at this moment? We're going to take a walk around a Toronto site and look for the appearances, manifestations and points of application where the affordances and constraints of networked informatics are already relevant to urban life.
About the Speakers
Adam GREENFIELD, co-founder of Do projects and founder and managing director of New York City-based urban systems design practice Urbanscale LLC, is the author of Everyware (2006) and the forthcoming The City Is Here For You To Use.
Nurri KIM, co-founder of Do projects, was born in Seoul, Korea; currently she lives and works in New York. She's interested in overlooked daily artifacts and conditions containing rich social or historical meanings. Her work has been exhibited at Insa Art Space in Seoul, the Conflux festival in New York City, the Media Arts Asia Pacific festival in Brisbane, Australia, and the ICANOF media art show in Hachinohe, Japan, among others.
