The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World

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The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. How is our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics, and other “situated” technologies? How will the ability to design increasingly responsive environments alter the way architects conceive of space? What do architects need to know about urban computing, and what do technologists need to know about cities? Situated Technologies Pamphlets will be published in nine issues and will be edited by a rotating list of leading researchers and practitioners from architecture, art, philosophy of technology, comparative media study, performance studies, and engineering.

In Situated Technologies Pamphlets 8, Christian Nold and Rob van Kranenburg articulate the foundations of a future manifesto for an Internet of Things in the public interest. Nold and Kranenburg propose tangible design interventions that challenge an internet dominated by commercial tools and systems, emphasizing that people from all walks of life have to be at the table when we talk about alternate possibilities for ubiquitous computing. Through horizontally scaling grass roots efforts along with establishing social standards for governments and companies to allow cooperation, Nold and Kranenberg argue for transforming the Internet of Things into an Internet of People.

Series Editors
Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard

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From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City

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Join us at the panel discussion celebrating the publication of this issue on November 1, with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Neil Smith, and the authors.  Click here for more information.

The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. How is our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics, and other “situated” technologies? How will the ability to design increasingly
responsive environments alter the way architects conceive of
space? What do architects need to know about urban computing, and
what do technologists need to know about cities? Situated Technologies
Pamphlets will be published in nine issues and will be edited by a
rotating list of leading researchers and practitioners from architecture,
art, philosophy of technology, comparative media study, performance studies, and engineering.

In Situated Technologies Pamphlets 7, Trebor Scholz and Laura Y. Liu reflect on the relationship between labor and technology in urban space where communication, attention, and physical movement generate financial value for a small number of private stakeholders. Online and off, Internet users are increasingly wielded as a resource for economic amelioration, for private capture, and the channels of communication are becoming increasingly inscrutable. Liu and Scholz ask: How does the intertwining of labor and play complicate our understanding of exploitation?

Series Editors
Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard

For more information, go to www.situatedtechnologies.net.

MicroPublicPlaces

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The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series explores the implications
of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. How is
our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by
mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics, and
other “situated” technologies? How will the ability to design increasingly
responsive environments alter the way architects conceive of
space? What do architects need to know about urban computing, and
what do technologists need to know about cities? Situated Technologies
Pamphlets will be published in nine issues and will be edited by a
rotating list of leading researchers and practitioners from architecture,
art, philosophy of technology, comparative media study, performance
studies, and engineering.

In response to two strong global vectors: the rise of pervasive information
technologies and the privatization of the public sphere, Marc Böhlen
and Hans Frei propose hybrid architectural programs called Micro Public
Places (mpps). mpps combine insights from ambient intelligence, human
computing, architecture, social engineering and urbanism to initiate ways
to re-animate public life in contemporary societies. They offer access to
things that are or should be available to all: air, water, medicine, books,
etc. and combine machine procedures with subjective human intuition
to develop joint forms of observing and knowing that neither system is
capable of on its own.

Series Editors
Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard

For more information, go to www.situatedtechnologies.net.

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The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series, published by the Architectural League, explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. How are our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics and other “situated” technologies? How will the ability to design increasingly responsive environments alter the way architects conceive of space? What do architects need to know about urban computing and what do technologists need to know about cities?

In the last five years, the urban computing field has featured an impressive emphasis on the so-called “real-time, database-enabled city” with its synchronized Internet of Things.   In Situated Technologies Pamphlets 5,  Julian Bleecker and Nicholas Nova argue to invert this common perspective and speculate on the existence of an “asynchronous city.” Through a discussion of objects that blog, they forecast situated technologies based on weak signals that show the importance of time on human practices. They imagine the emergence of truly social technologies that through thoughtful provocation can invert and disrupt common perspective.

Situated Technologies Pamphlets will be published in nine issues over three years and will be edited by a rotating list of leading researchers and practitioners from architecture, art, philosophy of technology, comparative media studies, performance studies, and engineering.

Series Editors
Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard

For more information, go to www.situatedtechnologies.net.

Responsive Architecture/Performing Instruments

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The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series, published by the Architectural League, explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. How are our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics and other “situated” technologies? How will the ability to design increasingly responsive environments alter the way architects conceive of space? What do architects need to know about urban computing and what do technologists need to know about cities?

A new generation of architecture that responds to building occupants and environmental factors has embraced distributed technical systems as a means and end for developing more mutually enriching relationships between people, the space they inhabit, and the environment. This pamphlet discusses key qualities of “responsive” architecture as a performing instrument that is both mutable and contestable.

Situated Technologies Pamphlets will be published in nine issues over three years and will be edited by a rotating list of leading researchers and practitioners from architecture, art, philosophy of technology, comparative media studies, performance studies, and engineering.

Series Editors
Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard

For more information, go to www.situatedtechnologies.net.

Situated Advocacy
A special double issue featuring the essays
•Community Wireless Networks as Situated Advocacy, by Laura Forlano and Dharma Dailey
•Suspicious Images, Latent Interfaces, by Benjamin Bratton and Natalie Jeremijenko

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The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series, published by the Architectural League, explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. How are our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics and other “situated” technologies? How will the ability to design increasingly responsive environments alter the way architects conceive of space? What do architects need to know about urban computing and what do technologists need to know about cities?

The third volume in the series considers the topic of advocacy. Advocacy is the act of arguing on behalf of a particular cause, idea or person, and addresses issues including self-advocacy, environmental protection, the rights of women, youth and minorities, social justice, the re-structured digital divide and political reform.

Situated Technologies Pamphlets 3: Situated Advocacy asks how situated technologies have been—or might be—mobilized toward changing and/or influencing social or political policies, practices, and beliefs. What new forms of advocacy are enabled by contemporary location-based or context-aware media and information systems? How might they lend tactical support to the process of managing information flows and disseminating strategic knowledge that influences individual behavior or opinion, corporate conduct or public policy and law?

Situated Technologies Pamphlets will be published in nine issues over three years and will be edited by a rotating list of leading researchers and practitioners from architecture, art, philosophy of technology, comparative media studies, performance studies, and engineering.

Series Editors
Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard

For more information, go to www.situatedtechnologies.net.

Urban Versioning System 1.0

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Color illustrations by David Cuesta
ISBN 978-0-9800-9941-6

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The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series, published by the Architectural League, explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. How are our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics and other “situated” technologies? How will the ability to design increasingly responsive environments alter the way architects conceive of space? What do architects need to know about urban computing and what do technologists need to know about cities?

The second volume in the series asks the question: what lessons can architecture learn from software development, and more specifically, from the Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) movement? Written in the form of a quasi-license, Urban Versioning System 1.0 posits seven constraints that, if followed, will contribute to an open source urbanism that radically challenges the conventional ways in which cities are constructed.

Situated Technologies Pamphlets will be published in nine issues over three years and will be edited by a rotating list of leading researchers and practitioners from architecture, art, philosophy of technology, comparative media studies, performance studies, and engineering.

Series Editors
Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard

For more information, go to www.situatedtechnologies.net.

Urban Computing and Its Discontents
Adam Greenfield and Mark Shepard
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In December 2007 the League launched a nine-part publication series to be published over three years, exploring the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture. Born out of the three-day symposium “Architecture and Situated Technologies,” presented by the League, the Center for Virtual Architecture, and the Institute for Distributed Creativity in October 2006, the series considers how our experience of the city and the choices we make in it are being affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics and other “situated” technologies. How will the possibility of designing increasingly responsive environments alter the way architects conceive of space? What do architects need to know about urban computing and what do technologists need to know about cities?

The first pamphlet in the series, written by Adam Greenfield and Mark Shepard, is framed as an overview of the key issues, historical precedents, and contemporary approaches surrounding the design of situated technologies and inhabiting cities populated by them.

Series Editors
Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard

For more information, go to www.situatedtechnologies.net.