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 [...]
Happy Hour Project Presentation: Too Smart City
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 [...]
Curatorial Statement
“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.” – Peter Cook
One could argue that this provocation by Peter Cook, published in 1963 in the catalogue for the Living City exhibition [...]