Here's my presentation for Urban Computing last week, giving an update on the Sneaker Seed project, outlining the problems I've had with the different router firmware, and suggesting using an Arduino + (the forthcoming) Matchport as an alternative solution.
It's not ideal, in part because it's less accessible - the original ...
Here's my project proposal for Urban Computing:
One of the themes that I've been interested in is the shift from matter to bits disrupting the necessity of urban density. So I started thinking about what that density could provide that would, in turn, be valuable to the exchange of bits - ...
My responses to Adam Greenfield's market essay:
One of the major benefits of a market (as opposed to more dispersed merchants) is the immediacy of comparison shopping - I can weigh not only prices from different merchants, but different products as well, and have a much better chance of coming out ...
February 26th 2007
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My responses to Adam Greenfield's crossroads essay:
One thing that I know is true of modern Times Square, but I'm not sure is true of the others, is that few people who actually live in New York would go there of their own free will. The very same Schelling point that ...
February 19th 2007
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My responses to Adam Greenfield's street essay:
I’ve been thinking about the way the sidewalk and the road are meant to keep pedestrians and vehicles separate. With last week’s snow, the two blended together, and blurred the boundaries between people and cars. This is something that happens often in cities anyway ...
My responses to Adam Greenfield's door essay:
Last week when we were talking about virtual windows and how easily they’re movable, an example of such a thing implemented as a door came to mind: the portable hole, widely used in cartoons as a piece of fabric that you can just toss ...
My responses to Adam Greenfield's window essay:
Christian’s comment about his weather widget led my mind down a different path. It’s certainly noteworthy that we can now experience a change in weather while being snugly sequestered inside, but at least that information is readily verifiable by using a physical window or ...
My responses to Adam Greenfield's wall essay:
Doug Aitken’s Sleepwalkers is currently showing at MOMA. He’s using the exterior walls of the museum as display screens, and the audience must travel around the building to see all elements of the piece, with the option of using their cell phones to hear ...