Toward the Sentient City
Toward the Sentient City was a major exhibition consisting of five commissioned projects and installations by teams of architects, artists and technologists that imagine alternative trajectories for...
View ArticleSentient City Survival Kit
The Sentient City Survival Kit probes the social, cultural and political implications of ubiquitous computing for urban environments. The project consists of a collection of artifacts for survival in...
View ArticleOpen 19: Beyond Privacy
‘Open’ 19: Beyond Privacy examines and reconsiders the concept of privacy from the legal, sociological, media theoretical and activist perspectives. My essay Near-Future Urban Archaeology: The Sentient...
View ArticleSerendipitor
Serendipitor is an alternative navigation app for the iPhone that helps you find something by looking for something else. The app combines directions generated by a routing service (in this case, the...
View ArticleSentient City
Sentient City: ubiquitous computing, architecture and the future of public space is an edited volume of case studies and essays that critically address the evolving relations between contemporary...
View ArticleOpen Source Architecture Op-Ed in DOMUS 948
An op-ed piece on open source architecture for Domus magazine organized by Carlo Ratti that I contributed to with Paola Antonelli, Adam Bly, Lucas Dietrich, Joseph Grima, Dan Hill, John Habraken, Alex...
View Articleminor urbanism
On the left is a video clip culled from YouTube titled Russian Climbing, one of many examples of the contemporary form of urban mobility known as Le Parkour. In it, we see a young man – a Traceur, as...
View ArticleInscribing a Square: Urban Data as Public Space
Inscribing a Square: Urban Data as Public Space, edited by Dietmar Offenhuber and Katja Schechtner, arose from the Sensing Place / Placing Sense symposium that took place during the 2011 Ars...
View ArticlePro+agonist: The Art of Opposition
Pro+agonist: The Art of Opposition emerged out of Discourse and Discord: Architecture of Agonism from the Kitchen Table to the City Street, a symposium presented by the Walker Art Center and Northern...
View ArticleBeyond the Smart City
I contributed an essay to Harvard Design Magazine‘s issue on Urbanism’s core (HDM 37), titled Beyond the Smart City: Everyday Entanglements of Technology and Urban Life. This issue is the third in a...
View ArticleNew Geographies 7: Geographies of Information
I contributed an essay on Predictive Geographies to New Geographies 7: Geographies of Information. New Geographies is a journal founded and produced by doctoral candidates at the Harvard University...
View ArticleFalse Positive
It is not just the trust we place in network infrastructure but also our willingness to trade bits of personal data for access to online services that renders us vulnerable. Caught between the ruse and...
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