Links for 2009-12-01
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An interesting "game" (more like a playful process) that attempts to crowdsource solutions to some of the big challenges contemporary cities face. Via the VURBians.
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Chris reports on Decode; an exhibition that seems to good to let pass. So much good work on show. I'll need to hop to London for it, I'm afraid.
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"The keeping real of shit matters to some people, but it does not matter to me. It's fashion, and I don't like fashion, because fashion does not matter. What matters is that you do good work. What matters is that you produce things that are true and will stand." I'll go with a shorter quote than Tom (Armitage, via whom I found this) but I agree, the whole thing is worth a read. Especially for someone with critical tendencies, like myself.
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The thing I like the most about Dennis' talk is his point about "augmented reality" being more than annotations on top of a view of the world through your mobile screen. The origins of Foursquare were also enlightening. Some of the design choices make more sense knowing it got started as a highly personalized travel guide.
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A solid intro to some of the current thinking around urban computing and the next phase of development for cities. I particularly enjoyed Atau Tanaka's brief but close reading of situatonist ideas and how that relates to current practices, as well as his reminder that a lot of interesting stuff around the concept of psychogeography has been done in a pre-digital age.
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