Interaction Typology![]() Tactical Urbanism![]() Crowdsourcing![]() Geotagging![]() Augmented Reality![]() Media Façades![]() Surveillance![]() Feedback Loops![]() |
Cameras on the Street![]() “Instead of Big Brother, this is more like ten thousand little brothers.”—Malcolm McCullough.
Network Society![]() At a global and regional scale, network flows shape business centers and political capitals. Undersea fiber optic cables link hubs of the global economy.
Third Places + Social Media![]() Although online activity can support partially stand-in for meeting places, using computer mediated communication and digital media does not represent participation in exact sense of “civic participation”.
Commons-Based Peer Production![]() Yochai Benkler describes “commons-based peer-production” as “groups of individuals [that] successfully collaborate on large-scale projects following a diverse cluster of motivational drives and social signals...”
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Ubiquitous Computing![]() World population compared to the number of microchips globally. “Next comes ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives.” -- Mark Weiser, 1996
Projectors in the Public Realm![]() [U]nsuspecting pedestrians will be tickled, stretched, flicked or removed entirely in real-time by a giant deity.
Proxemics/Flash Mobs![]() The hidden rules governing social behavior in space are rarely made explicit. And thanks to computer-mediated-communication, the rules have changed.
Forage Berkeley![]() Forage Berkeley used crowdsourcing to map the location of public fruit trees in Berkeley.
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