Tag Archives: public space

Book Review: Check in/ check uit. De digitalisering van de openbare ruimte. [The Digitalization of Public Space] by C. van ’t Hof, R. van Est, F. Daemen

Mareline Heijman | 26 September 2010, 4:41 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Is it still possible to check out? Check in/ check uit. De digitalisering van de openbare ruimte. stems from the assumption that new media developments such as OV-chipkaart and Google Street view are the visible parts of a fundamental development: the digitalization of public spaces. There’s an increasing layer of invisible intelligence round the earth,…

Twitter: Public Space or Public Sphere?

ellen sluis | 06 October 2009, 7:51 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

Internet kills writing? According to Andrea Lunsford, researcher at the Stanford University, it is totally the other way around. There is an immense increase of people starting to write and digital writing is the biggest revolution in writing since the Greek era; bigger than the shift from the oral- to the writing era. Internet improves our writing skills!

Interactive Media Artworks for Public Space: Does Art Hold the Potential to Influence Consciousness and Behavior in Relation to Public Spaces?

Liliana Bounegru | 18 September 2009, 2:56 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

“Individual bodies moving through urban space gradually became detached from the space in which they moved, and from the people the space contained. As space became devalued through motion, individuals gradually lost a sense of sharing a fate with others […] individuals create something like ghettos in their own bodily experience.” (Sennett, 1994: 323 – 366)

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Review of: When Code Meets Place: Collaboration and Innovation at WiFi Hotspots

Albert Cornelissen | 14 September 2009, 12:02 am | tags: , , ,

Someone wakes up from a night’s sleep. After having breakfast he or she kisses the kids goodbye and takes the long stairs down to the street. The Coffee Company is only a two minute walk, so a freshly made cup of coffee is not far away. Person X arrives at Coffee Company, orders, positions a laptop on the table,…

Light post on post-light

Tjerk Timan | 16 November 2007, 6:27 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

game In a series of attempts to shorten posts, a ‘light’ post: In my quest to investigate into alternative interfaces and other ways (than traditional pc setup red.) of representation and manipulation of data, one aspect to look at is public (intelligent) spaces. One example I found this week, during the GLOW-festival. This festival is taking place in the…