This week opened the new Design Museum in Barcelona with the exhibition Tourism: Spaces of Fiction that features los ojos del mundo (The World’s Eyes) a project I led in collaboration with designer David Lu and the MIT SENSEable City Lab . Based on my research work that analysis Flickr georeferenced photos to uncover tourists density and movement , we developed several spat...... [Show More]
I just love this video clip . NYTE, the New York Talk Exchange , “illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualising volumes of long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world.”
What fascinates me is the grouping, the concentration. Somewhere in my mind’s eye, New York is twinne...... [Show More]
smartbiking Post Source: blog.neo-nomad.net Posted: Nov 14 2008 20:56:07
A new project by the senseable MIT lab ! So funny how we are in tune :)
Read more on Gas2.0.
In addition to the social networking and tracking software, MIT is developing a “Smart Bike” that uses regenerative braking to charge a battery for a motor that supplements peddling power. The battery, motor and regenerative braking system are all integrated into a rear wheel and could be re...... [Show More]
[ SENSEable City Lab / New York Talk Exchange (NYTE) / 2008]
Well, three days into VISUALIZAR’08 and I feel like my head is going to explode. I can’t recall the last time I heard so many great presentations in such a short span of time. I was a bit preoccupied with my talk, which was yesterday and went reasonably well - now I can get down to the business of sharing some &...... [Show More]
thesis time Post Source: imaginativeamerica.com Posted: Nov 04 2008 18:41:36
So, one of things I am required to do to graduate from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) is write a thesis. Typically the thesis research takes up some of your 3rd semester and almost all of your final semester. Finished papers are between 50-150pg and the finished product is intended to be a complete work carried out on a fairly high level. The first thing you have ...... [Show More]
El SENSEable City Laboratory (MIT) iniciará un proyecto de bicicletas en Copenhague para reducir las emisiones de CO2 y potenciar el ejercicio físico. La ciudad danesa será la anfitriona del proyecto SmartBiking del MIT que arranca en este mismo mes.
El SmartBiking consiste en el desarrollo de una tecnología inteligente para bicis que facilite la movilidad sostenible, el ahorro de ...... [Show More]
MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory has announced that they will initiate a new biking project in Copenhagen to reduce carbon emissions and increase fitness. The Danish city will be the urban laboratory for MIT’s SmartBiking project starting in November 2009. This start date dovetails with Copenhagen’s duties as host of the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
MIT has developed smart...... [Show More]
A few thoughts on the state of research in urban informatics sketched from here and there…
With a few workshops (e.g. Digital Cities , UrbanSense , Real-time Cities ), loosly-related conferences (e.g. CUPUM , ), books (e.g. Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics , journal special issues (e.g. IEEE Computer , IEEE Pervasive Computing ), dispersed resear...... [Show More]
le cinquiame acran Post Source: rennescapcom.wordpress.com Posted: Oct 22 2008 20:04:37
Les plénières de la matinée de vendredi se terminaient avec Bruno Marzloff, sociologue, animateur du groupe Chronos , cabinet d’études spécialisé dans les problématiques de mobilités et de déplacements, et coanimateur avec la Fing du programme Villes 2.0 .
Bruno articula sa présentation selon le sommaire de son livre à paraître, Le 5e écran . Hélas, cinq fois hélas, le te...... [Show More]
Le MIT a annoncé hier, vendredi 10/10, un nouveau projet, SmartBiking , visant à faciliter encore l’usage de la bicyclette, déjà omniprésente, à Copenhague, dans le cadre de la prochaine conférence de l’ONU sur le changement climatique qui doit avoir lieu en novembre 2009 dans la capitale danoise. L’axe principal de cette initiative est la communication entre cyclistes, q...... [Show More]
A l’occasion de la 3e édition de la conférence hollandaise Picnic , Adam Greenfield , l’auteur d’ Everyware , a expliqué sa perception de la ville du futur à l’heure de l’in formatique ambiante. “Demain, nos objets et nos interfaces vont sentir, calculer, afficher, recevoir, stocker, transmettre et avoir des actions physiques sur l’inform ation̶ 1;, explique Greenf...... [Show More]
the visible city Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Sep 30 2008 05:48:19
Last week at Picnic took place a session on the The Visible City that featured projects that map cellphone network activity mobility as proxy of different urban dynamics in a city. Euro Beinat Director Sensible Future Foundation revealed the Current City initiative was with an artistic animation of SMS activity in Amsterdam by designed by Aaron Koblin with the support of urban data m...... [Show More]
Wednesday Sept. 24 I went to one of the sessions at PICNIC ‘08 called “The Visible City” . This session was about ways of visualizing mobility patterns in the city. From the announcement:
What if an entire city could be visible from above, like we see it from an airplane? Not simply buildings and squares, but also the aggregation of people who populate it, outdoor as well a...... [Show More]
From Putting people first by Mark Vanderbeeken
Experientia’s senior partner Jan-Christoph Zoels is this week at the Picnic conference in Amsterdam and is sending regular updates. Here is his first one:
Create the Future - Collaborative creativity is the guiding theme of Picnic , Amsterdam’s Cross Media Conference, now in its third year with a fascinating rooste...... [Show More]
nyte Post Source: ratherfancy.tumblr.com Posted: Sep 24 2008 22:07:35
NYTE : New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world....... [Show More]
Aaron Koblin is a data visualization geek. He believes that “data systems tell stories about our lives”, and he’s in the business of building beautiful, poetic images that tell those stories.
Some of his earliest works looked at mapping georgraphy in terms of the use of infrastructures. The image above is a map of North America drawn by tracing the paths of planes in fligh...... [Show More]
Join the Boston design community on Thu Sep 18 at Mantra , 52 Temple Pl, Boston . Doors open at 630 pm for drinks and chit chat. Talks start at 715 pm.
Speakers include Nader Tehrani of Office dA, designer of Mantra.
Carlo Parente, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
David Todd, D.E.Todd Photography
Daniel Smithwick, MIT
Eugenio Morello, Senseable City Laboratory , MIT
Nader Tehrani...... [Show More]
Guest blogger Victor Brunetti covered Minitek for dailysession. His review is accurate, inspired, insightful and (thank fully) looks at the event from a different perspective than most other reviews. Thanks for the great review Vic!
When I heard the word-of-mouth that there would be something called The Minitek Music and Innovation Festival happening in NYC over the weekend I was intr...... [Show More]
When I heard the word-of-mouth that there would be something called The Minitek Music and Innovation Festival happening in NYC over the weekend I was intrigued. Music and innovation – sounds right up my alley. Evidently a group of individuals that usually throw parties in NYC were attempting to go one step further with an actual festival. Their thesis was that highly motivated electronic music...... [Show More]
Post-occupancy evaluations of public wi-fi
As the result of some conversations about a month ago, Arup have been commissioned by the State Library of Queensland to do some analysis of their free wi-fi service, which runs throughout their Infozone and Knowledge Walk areas.
I’ll be doing research there next week, looking at usage patterns from various quantitative and qualitative pe...... [Show More]
At the end of last month, I attended the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA), that was held in Singapore. Although the juried exhibition of art works didn’t involve that many works on the themes of The Mobile City, the ISEA seminar had quite a few sessions on media technology and the experience of place and space. Unfortunately, there were so many parallel sessions, ...... [Show More]
Handsets will be the “imp lant” ; we see in the necks or eyes of actors in sci-fi movies from the future. Making the physical world as interactive as the digital and carrying with it a library of information about us gathered by self experience combined with the combine knowledge of our activities, applications and social profiles accessible via the handset.
Ever since working on...... [Show More]
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