Ambient Awareness, Hertzian Weather Systems and Urban Architecture
When it is raining in Oxford Street the architecture is no more important than the rain, in fact the weather has probably more to do with the pulsation of the Living City at that given moment.
Culled from the catalog for the 1963 exhibition “Living City” organized for the ICA in London by the young British architecture group Archigram, this quote by Peter Cook remains remarkably relevant for contemporary urbanists. In place of natural weather systems,
Archaeologies of the Near-future
In their paper Yesterday’s tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision, Bell and Dourish point out that while most computer science research has traditionally focused on elaborating technical problems based on past results, ubiquitous computing research has always been organized around a shared vision of the future. This vision is by now more than two decades old, and today we inhabit the future the field’s