September 7, 2010 at 2:33 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Urban Guerrilla Projects
Graffiti Research Labs (Urban Projections Bombs)
Banksy’s Mission Street Piecelink
Institute for Applied Autonomy (Graffiti Street Writer)
Pixel-Roller or other Graffiti Robots like Kektor by Jurg Lehni
Flash Mob
TV-B-Gone by Mitch Altman
Amphibious Architecture - Living/Jeremijenko
Subversively move Tony Blair’s memoirs to the crime section in book shops Facebook Group
Data Aggregation Projects
Pachube sensor Aggregation
Sensorpedia http://www.sensorpedia.org/
Stamen Design Projects - crimespotting
Situated Tech
Hans Haake - MOMA Poll voting booth Link
Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London Link
Eric Paulos media-trash-can
Projects by Heatherwick http://www.heatherwick.com/
Listening Post by Mark Hansen/Ben Rubin
Eyestop by http://senseable.mit.edu/eyestop/
Situated Technologies Projects http://www.sentientcity.net/exhibit/
Rotterdam Square by West 8 (in Living Systems)
Athens Projects by Howeler+Yoon
CO2 Cube by Digital Obscura
Responsive Tech
Ken Goldberg - Robot in the Garden
Helioforms - Beam Robotics by DeBords
Aegis Wall by Mark Goulthorpe
Projects by United Visual Artists (Volume)
Projects by Dan Rozin (mecahnical mirrors)
Audio Grove by Christian Moeller
Projects by Troika http://troika.uk.com/
Projects by Diller+Scofidio+Renfro
Ambient Conditioners
Phillippe Rahm (also with fabric | ch)
Olafur Oliasson - NY Waterfalls, Sun in London Link
Urban Projects by Christo + Jean Claude
Park(ing) Day / Pavement to Parks
Original Park(ing) Day by Rebar in SF 2009 Streetfilms and Rebar and Parkcycle
Park(ing) Day San Francisco Group Planning Page What is User-Generated Urbanism?
Janette Sadik-Khan NYC Transportation Commissioner MyMag
Friends of the Urban Forest Link (home of the citizen forester)
DIY Urbanism show at SPUR - Fall 2010
San Francisco City Agencies
SF Dept of Public Works Link + their SF Great Streets Program Link
SF Streetspace Temporary Occupancy Permit Link
SF Sidewalk Landscaping Permits Link
San Francisco GIS (SFGOV GIS Resource)
Bay Area + California GIS Databases (BAAMA)
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Programs
Service: Garbage Bin, Recycling Bin, Newspaper Boxes, Concession Stands, Food Carts, Product Kiosks, Light Poles, Electrical Poles, Telephone Poles, Parking Meters, Mailboxes, Fire Hydrants, Lavatory, Fountain, Watering Trough, Phone Booth, Service Windows, Solar Power, Wind Power, Disaster Alarm, Security Cameras, ATM machines, Vending Machines, Subway entrance, Vents, Parklets
Furniture: Bench, Bus Shelter, Bicycle Rack, Signs/Billboard, Cafe Seating, Porch, Window Seat, Homeless Shelter, Picnic Tables, Play Structures
Shade: Trees, Ivies, Flowerbeds, Awning, Umbrella, Tent, Roman Shade, Pergola, Entry canopy
Communication: Graffiti, Performance/Staging, Solicitation, Memorial, Traffic Signals, Speakers Box
Sidewalk: Drainage, Bollards, Traffic Signs, Curb, Bicycle Parking, Auto/Moto Parking
24th Street Specific
Checkcashing Shops, Pay-as-you-go Cell Phone Shops, Language Centers, Cross-cultural restaurants, Electronics Shops, Community Outreach Centers
(* send me more and I will add them here)
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Mission / 24th Street Links
Mission Local website and Mission Maps
Mission Problem Mapping Link
Future of 24th Street Discussion 2010 Link
Mission Murals link
Immigrant Life in the Mission link
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Books + Readings
The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles (or Networked Publics) by Kazys Varnelis
City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn by William Mitchell
Anatomy of a City by Kate Ascher
The Building of Manhattan by Donald Mackay
Links to Videos
Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (film by William H Whyte) Vimeo short film
1940’s San Francisco City and Streets Tour YouTube
Augmented City Link
Links to Photo Collections
Eric Fischer’s Data / Walking / Sidewalks Photostream
MicroPublicSpaces - Situated Tech -Lulu PDF Link
December 4, 2008 at 10:31 am · Filed under Uncategorized
robotic ecologies project
an upcoming publication and exhibition investigating the hybridization of intelligent autonomous agents (”mobile, agile, flexible and responsive systems”) with ecosystems and infrastructures situated at the edges of contemporary settlement patterns.
[shifting borders / virtual fences}
[interactive battlefields / phantom drones]
[dynamic bastions / seed banks, data vaults]
[predatory agricultures / harvestbots, energy nets]
[networked natures / dams, dykes, entropic resistance]
jason k. johnson - principal investigator
research support - the graham foundation, UMich TCAUP
dec 08 update - travel, research, documentation and interviews are currently underway
project synopsis: This is not just about machines that move. It is about groups of machines that can sense, plan and act with networked intelligence. We have named these new organizations “Robotic Ecologies”: promiscuous new environments brought forth by the rapid release of advanced computation into the physical realm. The ideas presented in this book are an attempt to understand, explore and interrogate these new technological (and some say living) territories. The work and essays were produced in collaboration with a small group of designers whose work engages robotics with varying degrees of complexity. The projects are as much about exposing the absurdities of our twenty-first century technological imperative as they are about celebrating their latent potential. We are clearly both terrified and thrilled by the rich and diverse territories emerging in the arts and sciences. The crossing of physical environments and robotics represents one of the most promising and perhaps exigent technological intersections in recent times. Robots are sensing, thinking and moving entities. They are different from most machines in that they are capable of intelligent behavior — the capacity to learn, adapt and act on their senses and intuitions. Groups of robots, or robotic ecologies, are unique in their capacity to work as an organized system: rather than merely acting on their individual desires, robotic ecologies can work collectively in swarms or packs. Without much fanfare, an extraordinary new phylum of intelligent machines is coming to life in laboratories, studios and machine shops across the planet. Designers are building and programming kinematic self-replicating machines, modular self-assembling robots, fields of sun-tracking robotic sunflowers, and the like. As Marshall McLuhan famously said, “First we build the tools, and then they build us.” The essays and projects presented in this book are about experimenting, exposing and exalting these new tools, processes and technologies. This project is about exploring what happens when endless arrays of intelligent machines come together to form and define the world around us.
October 24, 2008 at 12:02 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
PURL Lab Report 02
The work from UVA’s Extreme Environments studios was just published in the Phoenix Urban Research Lab’s Lab Report 02. Nataly Gattegno’s article was accompanied my images and work from her UVA students Carrie Norman, Taylor Burgess, Jen Siomacco, Elyse Kelly, Eric Craig and Kevin Hirth.
Excerpt:
“Extreme environments require risk. Our large goal here is to prompt us to critically rethink how we develop the desert, to recognize the limits of current approaches and to explore how our current desert landscapes-El Mirage and the many landscapes just like El Mirage-can be adapted to become comfortable,
productive, and sustainable. But to make this happen, we’ll need to step outside our comfort zones-into the extreme.”
October 21, 2008 at 5:42 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
We just returned from ACADIA 08: Silicon + Skin / Biological Processes and Computation (the conference was organized by Mark Swakhamer, Neri Oxman, Andrew Kudless). We exhibited our Robotic Ecologies and Vivisys projects, and gave a 15min presentaion on our work. Here are a few quick links to some of the more interesting presentations we saw:
The keynotes: AMID/Cero9, Francois Roche, Philippe Raum
Anxious Climates Exhibition curated by David Gissen from CCA
Hyperbody Research Group TU Delft (Dr. Nimish Biloria and Tomasz Jaskiewicz)
Center for Virtual Architecture (Omar Kahn from U. Buffalo)
Hylozoic Projects (Philip Beesely from Waterloo)
Spatial Robots and Variate Labs (Miles Kemp from Los Angeles)
AA EmTech (Michael Weinstock, George Jeronimidis, Evan Greenberg)
Evolutionary Computation (research by Peter Von Buelow from UMich)
Future of Computing (Volker Mueller from Bentley)
Theorist Sanford Kwinter
