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“People who use mobile media often find themselves shifting between different modes of being in the city. Sometimes they use their technology to withdraw from their actual surroundings, to form a private bubble, to demarcate TheirSpace: at other times, they will use the same devices for more public acts. They will engage in the space around them, and participate in OurSpace.”
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A profile piece if the prolific Dutch architecture firm MVRDV. They have an interesting perspective on where urbanism should go next, but I wonder – are equipped to adopt a decentralized mindset?
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Greenfield fears the read/write city will not be comprehensible to its inhabitants: “the systems that structure and determine outcomes in this context — distributed armatures of minuscule embedded sensors, processors, and actuators — cannot be “read” in any ordinary sense. Individually, they’re the proverbial “black boxes,” and what’s worse, they achieve their effects by being connected in nonlinear, emergent process loops.” Perhaps these systems are impossible to make readable in the textual sense, but can be understood on a more intuitive level nonetheless, similar to how we ‘read’ the behaviour of crowds, flocks and swarms.
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An article discussing the impact of mobile phones on the individual’s perception and use of the city, as well as its aggregate effects on the city as a whole. Some good points towards the end w.r.t. the need for urbanists to adopt a decentralized mindset.
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