Trebor Scholz, Laura Y. Liu: From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · city, internet, labour, life, network culture, technology, urbanism, web 2.0, work
“The authors 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?”
Publisher The Architectural League of New York, New York, Fall 2010
Situated Technologies Pamphlet series, 7
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Comment (1)Marc Böhlen and Hans Frei (eds.): Situated Technologies Pamphlet 6: MicroPublicPlaces (2010)
Filed under pamphlet | Tags: · architecture, city, interactive design, labour, life, situated technologies, ubiquitous computing, urban computing, urbanism
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 (MMPs). 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 learning procedures with subjective human intuition to make the public realm a contested space again.
Series Editors: Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard
Publisher: The Architectural League of New York
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Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova (eds.): Situated Technologies Pamphlet 5: A synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing (2009)
Filed under pamphlet | Tags: · architecture, city, interactive design, internet of things, labour, life, situated technologies, ubiquitous computing, urban computing, urbanism
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. 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 perspectives.
Series Editors: Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard
Publisher: The Architectural League of New York
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