Urban Atmospheres 48% of worlds population is urban (2003) 50% urban by 2007 Bluetooth devices to reach 1.4 billion units in 2005 alone Bluetooth in 20%

Urban

Atmospheres

48% of worlds population is urban (2003)

50% urban by 2007

Bluetooth devices to reach 1.4 billion units in 2005 alone

Bluetooth in 20% of all automobiles by 2007

400 million new mobile phones sold worldwide this year

WiFi hardware being deployed at 1 every 4 seconds

Urban

Atmospheres

The very essence of person, place, and community are being redefined by personal wireless digital tools that transcend traditional physical constrains of time and space.

New metaphors for visualizing, interacting, and interpreting the real-time ebb and flow of urban places will emerge.

Urban Atmospheres is focused on exposing, deconstructing, and understanding the challenges of this newly emerging moment in urban history and its dramatic influence on technology usage and adoption.

Place

Community

Infrastructure

Traversal

Themes

Situationists

Situationists wanted to dislodge public passivity and prompt widespread critical engagement through a kind of guerrilla tactic of “situations” or street events that would shake passersby out of their conventional habits of looking and thinking

Looked towards building a new people’s aesthetic built out of the ruins of the spectacle

Urban Atmospheres

www.urban-atmospheres.net

Proactive archeologyof our urban landscapesand emerging technology

Street

Talk

• Bring together a diverse set of individuals that are focused on exploring various issues, themes, and technologies across our public urban spaces

• Help us look ahead and avoid pitfalls

• Are we even thinking about urban spaces and particularly computing within it in the right ways?

• What are we missing?

• Help us open our minds to larger visions of urban possibilities

Street

Talk

• Let us find common ground and promote synergies between our various disciplines

• Let us know what is right and wrong about the way others are thinking, researching, or reforming urban spaces

• Let us experience your views of urban landscapes away from technology so as to gain insight into the raw urban life of cities – to deconstruct them and benefit from such viewpoints.

Street Talk

Street Talk

An Urban Computing Happening

Friday 16 July 2004

Converge-Diverge Intel Research Berkeley

TIME EVENT SPEAKER AFFILIATION 0900 – 0930 Coffee and Check in 0930 – 0940 Welcome Eric Paulos Intel Research Berkeley 0940 – 1030 Reports from the Field Ben Hooker Royal College of Art Margot Jacobs PLAY | Interactive Institute Dennis Crowley Dodgeball John Canny BiD / CS (UCB) Michele Chang Intel PaPR 1030 – 1040 Break 1040 – 1130 City As Open Source Howard Rheingold Smart Mobs Arup Gupta Intel Consumer Electronics Group Christina Ray Glowlab / One Block Radius Anthony Townsend NYU Taub Urban Research Center Jane McGonigal Performance Studies (UCB) 1130 – 1215 Breakout Session 1 1215 – 0100 Breakout Report Backs 0100 – 0140 Lunch 0140 – 0230 Urban Situations Cassidy Curtis Graffiti Archeology Project Jack Napier Billboard Liberation Front Melora Zaner-

Godsey Microsoft Research

Anne Galloway Carleton University Anthony Burke Architecture (UCB) 0230 – 0240 Break 0240 – 0330 Lost and Found Anthony LaMarca Intel Research Seattle Ken Anderson Intel PaPR Greg Niemeyer Art Practice (UCB) Paul Dourish ICS (UCI) Peter Lunenfeld Art Center College of Design 0330 – 0415 Breakout Session 2 0415 – 0500 Breakout Report Backs 0500 – 0530 Concluding Remarks: Converge? Diverge? 0555 – 0620 BART Adventure to Rx 0630 – 1000 Urban After Event at Rx in San Francisco