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Lowrez Introductory Lecture
Lowrez Introductory Lecture
Lowrez Introductory Lecture
Harvard Design School: SCI 0646900 Fall 2011 Instructor: Nashid Nabian Location: Gund Hall 510 Meeting Time: Friday 2:00pm - 5:00pm
How can a city perform as an open-source real-time system?, Wiki City Illustration by Kristian Kloeckl, MIT SENSEable City Lab.
Temporality
Technology
Networks
Spatialit
Digitally Augmenting Physical Spaces of Human Habitation? Who gives a Flying F**k , and Why?
Cross--Manipulation
Digitally Augmenting Physical Spaces of Human Habitation? Who gives a Flying F**k , and Why?
Digitally Augmenting Physical Spaces of Human Habitation? Who gives a Flying F**k , and Why?
aware of their context, and are capable of renegotiating their goals based on emergent conditions, and soliciting their inhabitants needs and desires. They also mediate interactions.
Architectural solutions that are
p e r s o n p e r s o n p e r s o n
- - - - - - - - - - - - - b u i l t e n v i r o n m e n t ( l o c a l + r e m o t e ) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - p e r s o n ( l o c a l + r e m o t e ) - - - - - - - - e x t e r i o r e n v i r o n m e n t ( l o c a l + r e m o t e )
Degenerative Time; Designing Against Temporality vs. Generative Time; Attributes: Designing for Temporality
Durable, Solid, Fix, Inert, non-Responsive to Change, Substantial
-----------VS-----------
digital information is temporal >> from spatial allocation of substance to temporal allocation of non-substance:
absolute time relative time looped time recursive time real-time multi-threaded time/parallel times reversible time
Digitally Augmented Architecture is a Sentient Machine for Habitation. Who is the operator or this Sentient Machine for Habitation?
Technologies of bridging spatial distance + technologies of bridging temporal distance= A Pandoran network of hyper-connections with total memory of the past and capable of anticipating the future
acquiring data from the space-----delivering data back to the space-bridging spatial distance------------bridging temporal distance---------geo-localization and locationing---Michael Fox @ Sci-arc : Izoo: interactive zoo
Geo-taggable/Geo-Cacheable Space
Real-time Locality
Geo-taggable/Geo-Cacheable Space
Real-time Locality
Geo-taggable/Geo-Cacheable Space
Real-time Locality
The Monolith by Jean Nouvel and the Blur Building by diller & scofidio both showcased in the very same event which is that of Expo.02 ; the 6th Swiss national exposition in 2002.
Attributes: Attributes: Ephemeral, Capable of Transformation, Responsive to Change, Interactive, Solid, Fix, Inert, non-Responsive to Change, Substantial Durable, non-Substantial
Virtual Reality
1990
1984
"we are headed for the death of cities" {due to the continued growth of personal computing and distributed organizations advances} "cities are leftover baggage from the industrial era.
George Gilder (1995)
2008
in 2008, the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone: for the first time in history more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. by 2030, this is expected to swell to almost 5 billion.
Manipulate: Add/Subtract/Color/Destroy/Create/Combine/Cut/Deform/Move/Rotate
Manipulate: Add/Subtract/Color/Destroy/Create/Combine/Cut/Deform/Move/Rotate
Cross-Manipulation
People
Space Space
People
Digital Technology
People
Digital Technology
Interaction design User interface design Information architecture design Software/hardware design
Norbert Wiener : the originator of cybernetics, offers formalization of the notion of feedback
Charles Babbage : Difference Engine, a mechanical control system considered the precursor of today's computers, advances the man's quest to create life towards the automated actuation of the physical world
Cedric Price: The pioneer of applying the principles of cybernetics in designing public architectures; Fun Palace
Yona Friedman: Spatial City Project and Mobile Architecture Manifesto, focusing on the rule of the user
John Frazer: Introducing the connectivity and network principle to architecture as a cybernetic system, universal constructor as a collectivity of networked self-organizing spatial units
How can a city perform as an open-source real-time system?, Wiki City Illustration by Kristian Kloeckl, MIT SENSEable City Lab.
tienne Bonnot de Condillac : A sensationalist approach towards human condition, The statue and the rose anecdote in his Trait des Sensations
Viral Sensing: Tapping in to data sets generated as a byproduct of various networks providing urban related services
Current Amsterdam-A vision of Amsterdam during the national festivity of Queens Day 2008: The analysis of mobile phone traffic reveals peoples presence and movement. MIT SENSEable City Lab
Has VIDEO
Current Amsterdam-Text Messaging activity at 22:00 hours (10pm) four days before New Years Eve 2007 in Amsterdam. SENSEable City Lab
Real-time Rome-Aggregate picture of data transferred through the Telecom Italia cell phone network. MIT SENSEable City Lab
Real-time Rome-Aggregate picture of cell phone use signatures used to draw land-use maps from mobile useage patterns that resemble the actual land use map of Rome. MIT SENSEable City Lab
Real-time Rome-Illustration that maps the mean velocity and dominant direction of mobile phone users on Telecom Italia network
Has VIDEO
Real-time Rome, Madonna Concert, World Cup-Reaviling the emotional landscape created around the public event MIT SENSEable City Lab
Has VIDEO
Real-time Rome, Augmenting Crowd Spotting algorithms with context information relevant to urban processes including public commute-MIT SENSEable City Lab
Has VIDEO
One People-Visualization of domestic calls made during Obamas Inauguration-MIT SENSEable City Lab
Has VIDEO
One People-Visualization of International calls made during Obamas Inauguration-MIT SENSEable City Lab
Has VIDEO
Has VIDEO
Borderline-The geography of talk in Great Britain. This figure shows the strongest 80% of links, as measured by total talk time, between areas within Britain. The opacity of each link is proportional to the total call time between two areas and the different colors represent regions identified using network modularity optimization analysis. SENSEable City Lab
Borderline- The core regions of Britain. By combining the output from several modularity optimization methods we obtain the results shown in this figure. The thick black boundary lines show the official Government Office Regions partitioning together with Scotland and Wales. The black background spots show Britain's towns and cities, some of which are highlighted with a label. SENSEable City Lab
Diagram of workflow for viral sensing projects that tap on use data from cellular networks such as Current City Project.
Why do we know so much about the supply chain and so little about the removal chain? What if waste collection suddendly stopped?
(Think about what happened recently in Naples, Italy, where the streets were overwhelmed with garbage) Image a city entirely made of garbage
Has VIDEO
Trash Track: Diagram illustrating how the trash tag periodically measures its location and reports that data to the server via the cellular network. -MIT SENSEable City Lab
Trash Track: The custom designed electronic tag for Trash Track Project-MIT SENSEable City Lab
Trash Track: sample visualization from Trash Track project tracking a tagged aluminum can as it travels trough garbage collection network of the city -MIT SENSEable City Lab
Crowdsensing: Tapping in to data collaboratively generated on User Generated Content Sharing Platforms to make sense of the spatial dynamics
Has VIDEO
Los Ojos del Mondo: an animation of the photos geo-tagged to different neighborhoods of Barcelona with descriptive tags that relate to "partying" in the summer of 2007, shows that Barcelonas old town (Ciutat Vella) is where one goes to have fun. MIT SENSEable City Lab
Los Ojos del Mondo: Another visualization in the same set looks at how Spain is photographed by tourists over the course of one year. While the photos overlap in certain locations and expose places that attract the photographer's gaze, in other locations, the absence of images is eye-catching, revealing the more introverted parts of Spain. MIT SENSEable City Lab
Has VIDEO
My Architect: an example of crowdsensing to make sense of professional architecture landscape and how architecture is received by the crowds. MIT SENSEable City Lab
My Architect: an example of crowdsensing to make sense of professional architecture landscape and how architecture is received by the crowds. MIT SENSEable City Lab
Has VIDEO
http://senseable.mit.edu/copenhagenwheel/
Has VIDEO
Pictoric Sensing and Computer Vision : Pedestrian Levitation by Thomas Laureyssens (2005)
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?index=7&id=255&domain=Pattern%20Recognition
Processing
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want toprogram images, animation, and interactions. http://processing.org/
Arduino
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. http://www.arduino.cc/
Electronics Package
The students are required to purchase the package of electronics needed for prototyping with an estimated cost of 150$ or 200$ depending on which combination they would like to purchase. http://sprkfn.com/w6408
http://processing.org/download/index.html