The world is stuffed with data and we’re becoming dependent on screens. What alternatives do we have, and why should we care? A talk by Ben Bashford at Skillswap Brighton.
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Square eyes and blue faces
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Full Interview: Adam Greenfield on Urban Computing | Spark | CBC Radio
A few weeks ago on Spark, contributor Jonathan Gifford brought us inside the Cognitive Cities Conference in Berlin. One of the key people he met there was Adam Greenfield. Adam is founder and managing director of the urban-systems design practice Urbanscale and he thinks a lot about the future of the networked city, something he’s called urban computing.
http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2011/04/full-interview-adam-greenfield-on-urban-computing/
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Elements of a Networked Urbanism by Adam Greenfield
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?
http://2009.dconstruct.org/schedule/adamgreenfield/
Adam Greenfield lives in a city and thinks you probably do, too.