Kevin Slavin, Area Code. Always one of my favorite speakers! Heimet, German word kind of like your home or the place you belong. Nostlagia was defined by Hoffer if mid-1600's and was originally a sharp diagnosis that was about soldiers who missed their homes and it was a step before suicide.
Now, nostagia has moved from spatial to temporal. This is due in large part to the fact that we're not moving as much. In 2005, 84% of Americans didn't have a passport. 57% will live in their own state/city.
Kevin's work is now what connects the physical to the digital. Showing a game by NYU students called Payphone Warriors where you play the game using phone booths on the streets of NYC. Also talking about a game called Plunder that uses your real world locations to map you onto virtual islands. Dislocate, defamiliarizeand re-enchant.
Ben Cerveny, Strategist at Stamen & Founder of Vurb. Cities are collecting a lot of information and we're exploring how to curate all of the information that's available. The Medium is the Metropolis. The city is already shaped by information. Early newspapers told more about what was arriving by ship and the merchants would reformat what they had based on what was arriving via the ships
Initially, this information came from central place. Now citizens are now information makers. All cities have a cloud of information above them. 21st century cities will be collaboratively produced. Right now, contextual basis of city occurs when we walk through the physical space. What happens when the physical objects of a city become transformable. We go from social computing to social objects to social environments. Next step will be participatory urbanism. Some interesting information about how merchants in Amsterdam would have a large window on street level that would show what they had brought in on their ships. So you might set up a room in your house and show coffee beans if you just received a coffee shipment. Commerce & living were in the same place, not separated like it is today.
Interesting conversations and some really cool work starting in this area. More to come I'm sure.
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Home = Heimat, nostalgia = Heimweh
Posted by: Hans Suter | July 14, 2009 at 04:57 AM