Digital Built fabric
making the invisible, visible
Barangaroo (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners/Arup, 2009)
responsive architecture
"forcefield," London (Arup)
unfolding resource use
Fitzroy Street, London
"people don't really understand what units are"
"nobody tell us what the benchmarks should be"
the desire for only good news
urban-scale information
low2no
making your mobile phone background black based on extent of carbon use
carbon shadows - buildings with large scale installations that show energy use
responsive architecture
kurilpa bridge, brisband (Cox/Arup)
led-based lighting -- not screen-based to avoid giant screens and repurposing for advertisement
adaptive ambient information
HINTeractions
place-states
place-stats
place-status
place-statements
- reflect back to people how they are interacting with spaces
- adaptive ambient information
- green screens (Chiswick Park)
-- screens showing story about how building is trying to be energy efficient
-- trying to create productive competition to reduce energy
Visible output
"The City" Lewis Mumford (1939)
the move from manual labor to wireless work (well, this is only for some people)
wifi in public space
interactive installations
State Library of Queensland (2008)
tag cloud of term extractions in wifi
- moving the display back into the library space
[This sounds remarkably like suggestions I made to the Electronic Resources and Libraries association conference a year or so ago. Hooray for great minds thinking alike.]
responsive architecture
masdar city centre (lava/arup)
lighting/solar collection units
city centre acts as dashboard/central processing unit for wider city
mobility
urban sesnsing - smart light fields
bluetooth - tracing where people are in realtime in transit
persuasive public transit - smart wayfinding
EU future internet
www.ict-sensei.org
...and what to do about "ethically dodgy" work
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