What does location mean for UX? How does information architecture and design synchronize with urban architecture? How does mobile communication and web culture impact the streetscape? Are we living in facets of the same virtual city or does location still constrain us?
In this session, Don Turnbull and John Tolva look into these and other questions as they discuss research and designs unveiling how our interactions with both digital and physical environments are changing.
Tagged with cities urban planning information architecture data location
With the majority of the earth’s population now living in cities, Richard Saul Wurman realized there was a yawning information gap about the urban super centers that are increasingly driving modern culture.
In this keynote presentation from the 2010 IA Summit, Mr. Wurman discusses his 19.20.21 initiative: an attempt to standardize a methodology to understand comparative data on 19 cities that will have 20 million or more inhabitants in the 21st century. He encourages the design community to take initiative and solve big problems rather than make small changes incrementally.
From: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/ia-summit-10-richard
At this State of Design Festival event, Dan Hill discusses how cities worldwide are beginning to transform the urban experiences through smart digital services, to the benefit of all users of the city. He describes a world in which people will increasingly expect the normal urban experience – public transport, wayfinding, council services, urban planning and architecture, cultural activities and so on – to be as interactive as apps on a smart phone. Drawing from his experience with cities and urban developments globally (as a Senior Consultant with Arup), Dan Hill provides a user guide for the coming era of smart cities.
Presented by State of Design at ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne, July 2010
http://www.themonthly.com.au/making-invisible-visible-dan-hill-digital-design-and-strategy-2721
Tagged with architecture urban technology digital design dan hill
With cities contributing upwards of 75 per cent of global carbon emissions, urban design is increasingly important when planning for climate change. This discussion examines the creative urban design solutions coming out of the world’s cities. Saskia Sassen is Robert S Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Richard Sennett is professor of sociology at LSE and NYU. Jonathon Porritti s the chair of the sustainable development commission and founder and director of Forum for the Future.