Friday, September 25
7:00 p.m.
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue
Laura Forlano, Dana Spiegel, Antonina Simeti, and Anthony Townsend will discuss the inspirations, design, and initial experiences with their experiment of mobile work.
Happy Hour Project Presentation: Breakout!
Happy Hour Project Presentation: Too Smart City
Friday, October 9
7:00 p.m.
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue
JooYoun Paek and David Jimison will discuss building high tech robotic street furniture meant to fail every time. The talk will focus on their research into street furniture in New York City public parks, efforts to mimic the aesthetics of public design, and the potential for sentient [...]
Too Smart City
Team Members:
JooYoun Paek, David Jimison | Engineers: Daniel Bauen, Aaron Gilbert, Bill Washabaugh
Too Smart City is a set of three street furniture pieces that come to life with embedded intelligence and robotic systems. The Smart Bench is a gorgeous two-person seater that recognizes vagrancy and is capable of lifting people up and dumping them [...]
Breakout!
Team Members:
Anthony Townsend (Institute for the Future), Georgia Borden, Amanda Kross, Jung Hoon Kim, Antonina Simeti (DEGW), Dana Spiegel (NYCwireless), Laura Forlano (Parsons The New School for Design), Tony Bacigalupo (New Work City), Sean Savage (PariSoMa), Elysse Preposi (Sarah Lawrence College)
Breakout! is a festival of work in the city, that explores the dynamic possibilities of [...]