Mark Shepard
dal 26/10/2011 al 26/10/2011
Segnalato da
26/10/2011
Mark Shepard
Stroom Den Haag, The Hague
Making sense and nonsense of the (near-future) Sentient City
Lecture by media architect and researcher Mark Shepard. Shepard researches the influence of new media and network technology on architecture and the city. "As computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets and public spaces of the city, we increasingly find information processing capacity embedded within and distributed throughout the material fabric of everyday urban space. Artifacts and systems we interact with daily collect, store and process information about us, or are activated by our movements and transactions. Ubiquitous computing evangelists herald a coming age of urban infrastructure capable of sensing and responding to the events and activities transpiring around them. Imbued with the capacity to remember, correlate and anticipate, this near-future 'sentient' city is envisioned as being capable of reflexively monitoring its environment and our behavior within it, becoming an active agent in the organization of everyday life in urban public space. This talk will unpack some of the tacit assumptions, latent biases and hidden agendas at play behind new and emerging urban infrastructures." Entrance: eur 5, reservation required.