Lowrez Introductory Lecture

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How can a city perform as an open-source real-time system?, Wiki City Illustration by Kristian Kloeckl, MIT SENSEable City Lab.

Real-Time Cities: an Introduction to Urban Cybernetics Harvard Design School: SCI 0646900 Fall 2011 Instructor: Nashid Nabian Location: Gund Hall 510 Meeting Time: Friday 2:00pm - 5:00pm



Digitally Augmenting Physical Spaces of Human Habitation? Who gives a FlyingF**k , and Why?

C r o s s - - M a n i p u l a t i o n

Five Viewpoints on Real-time Cities




Architectural solutions that are aware of their context, and are capable of renegotiating their goalsbased on emergent conditions, and soliciting their inhabitants needs and desires. They also mediate interactions.

p e r s o n

p e r s o n

p e r s o n

- - - - - - - - - - - - - b u i l t e n v i r o n m e n t ( l o c a l + r e m o t e )

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - p e r s o n ( l o c a l + r e m o t e )

- - - - - - - - e x t e r i o r e n v i r o n m e n t ( l o c a l + r e m o t e )

The house with the computer/ the house is the computer


Fi Vi i R l i Ci i



Space[Spatiality]

Technologically Enhanced Space[Technology]

Temporalized Space[Temporality]

Networked Space[Networks]

Subjected and Subjective Space[Subjectivity]


Fi Vi i R l i Ci i



Space[Spatiality]



Degenerative Time; Designing Against Temporality vs. Generative Time;Designing for Temporality



Attributes:

Durable, Solid, Fix, Inert, non-Responsive toChange, Substantial

Attributes:

Ephemeral, Capable of Transformation, Responsive to Change, Interactive, non-Substantial

-----------VS-----------


Fi Vi i t R l ti Citi



Space[Spatiality]



digital information is temporal >>from spatial allocation of substance to temporal allocation of non-substance:

absolute timerelative timelooped time

recursive timereal-time

multi-threaded time/parallel timesreversible time







Space[Spatiality]






Digitally Augmented Architecture is a Sentient Machine for Habitation.Who is the operator or this Sentient Machine for Habitation?




Space[Spatiality]





Digitally Augmented Architecture is a Sentient Machine for Habitation.

Who is the operator or this Sentient Machine for Habitation?


Fi e Vie points on Real time Cities



Space[Spatiality]




Technologies of bridging spatial distance + technologies of bridging temporal distance=A Pandoran network of hyper-connections with total memory of the past and capable of anticipating the future



Five Viewpoints on Real time Cities



Space[Spatiality]


acquiring data from the space------

delivering data back to the space--

bridging spatial distance-------------

bridging temporal distance----------

geo-localization and locationing----




Michael Fox @ Sci-arc : Izoo: interactive zoo





Space[Spatiality]

Technologically Enhanced Spa[Technology]

emporalized Space[Temporality]



Geo-taggable/Geo-Cacheable Space Real-time Locality





Space[Spatiality]










Space[Spatiality]






What about Architecture? What about Architects?





object/fieldform/formlessnessautonomous/linkedhardware/software

meaning/affect

room/atmospherespace/time


The Monolith by Jean Nouvel and the Blur Building by diller & scofidio both showcasedin the very same event which is that of Expo.02 ; the 6th Swiss national exposition in2002.






Attributes:Ephemeral, Capable of Transformation, Responsive to Change, Interactive,non-Substantial

Attributes:Durable, Solid, Fix, Inert, non-Responsive to Change, Substantial






The DR Concert Hall in Copenhagen by Jean Nouvel (2009)




Virtual Reality



"we are headed for the death of cities" {due to the continued growth of personalcomputing and distributed organizations advances} "cities are leftover baggage fromthe industrial era.“

George Gilder (1995)



“in 2008, the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone: for the first time inhistory more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas.by 2030, this is expected to swell to almost 5 billion”.

United Nations Population Fund

http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2007/english/introduction.html



Visualization Credits : Carlo Ratti – MIT SENSEable City Lab



Info-sphere of digital world Material-sphere of physical world

Hybrid-sphere of digitally augmented, physical world



Info-sphere replacing material sphere

Info-sphere augmenting material sphere



When Things Start to Think by Neil Gershenfeld



Manipulate: Add/Subtract/Color/Destroy/Create/Combine/Cut/Deform/Move/Rotate

Manipulate: Add/Subtract/Color/Destroy/Create/Combine/Cut/Deform/Move/Rotate

C r o s s - M a n i p u l a t i o n



the cyborg’s prime

tool



PeopleDigital

Technology

PeopleDigital

Technology

Space

Interaction design

User interface design

Information architecture design

Software/hardware design

Interactive Architecture

Responsive Environments

Digitally Augmented Spaces

People Space

Architecture

Urban Design

Landscape Design

Interior Design



Norbert Wiener :the originator of cybernetics, offers formalization of the notion of feedback



Descartes :The shift from natural to mechanistic world view



Charles Babbage :Difference Engine, a mechanical control system considered the precursor of today'scomputers, advances the man's quest to create life towards the automated actuation of thephysical world

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Charles_Babbage_1860.jpg



Gordon Pask:Architecture as a Cybernetic System



Mark Weiser :Father of Ubiquitous Computing



Cedric Price:The pioneer of applying the principles of cybernetics in designing publicarchitectures; Fun Palace



Cedric Price and Gordon Pask Colaboration in Fun Palace project



Yona Friedman:Spatial City Project and Mobile Architecture Manifesto, focusing on the rule of the user



John Frazer:Introducing the connectivity and network principle to architecture as a cybernetic system,universal constructor as a collectivity of networked self-organizing spatial units

http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/publications/ea/exhibition.html An evolutionary architecture by Jhon frazer

http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/publications/ea/exhibition.html

http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/publications/ea/exhibition.html



How can a city perform as an open-source real-time system?, Wiki City Illustration by Kristian Kloeckl, MIT SENSEable City Lab.



City as a cybernetic System= A city that is Sensed

A city that is conditioned

A city that is actuated



Étienne Bonnot de Condillac :A sensationalist approach towards human condition, The statue and the rose anecdote inhis Traité des Sensations



Viral Sensing: Tapping in to data sets generated as a byproduct of various networks providing

urban related services



Current Amsterdam- A vision of Amsterdam during the national festivity of Queen’s Day 2008: The

analysis of mobile phone traffic reveals people’s presence and movement. MIT SENSEable City Lab

Has VIDEO



Current Amsterdam-Text Messaging activity at 22:00 hours (10pm) four days before New Year’s Eve

2007 in Amsterdam. SENSEable City Lab



Real-time Rome-Aggregate picture of data transferred through the Telecom Italia cell phonenetwork. MIT SENSEable City Lab



Real-time Rome-Aggregate picture of cell phone use signatures used to draw land-usemaps from mobile useage patterns that resemble the actual land use map of Rome.MIT SENSEable City Lab



Real-time Rome-Illustration that maps the mean velocity and dominant direction of mobile phone userson Telecom Italia network

Has VIDEO



Real-time Rome, Madonna Concert, World Cup-Reaviling the emotional landscape created around thepublic event – MIT SENSEable City Lab



Has VIDEO



Real-time Rome, Augmenting Crowd Spotting algorithms with context information relevant to urbanprocesses including public commute-MIT SENSEable City Lab

Has VIDEO



One People-Visualization of domestic calls made during Obama’s Inauguration-MIT SENSEable City Lab

Has VIDEO



One People-Visualization of International calls made during Obama’s Inauguration-MIT SENSEable City Lab

Has VIDEO



NYTE-SENSEable City Lab



Has VIDEO



Borderline-The geography of talk in Great Britain. This figure shows the strongest 80% of links, as measured by total talk time, between areas within Britain. The opacity of each link isproportional to the total call time between two areas and the different colors represent

regions identified using network modularity optimization analysis. SENSEable City Lab



Borderline- The core regions of Britain. By combining the output from several modularityoptimization methods we obtain the results shown in this figure. The thick black boundarylines show the official Government Office Regions partitioning together with Scotland and

Wales. The black background spots show Britain's towns and cities, some of which arehighlighted with a label. SENSEable City Lab



Diagram of workflow for viral sensing projects that tap on use data from cellular networks such as CurrentCity Project.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3019/2878119247_7e5127f185.jpg



Sensor Networks: Designing and Implementing Custom Sensor Networks

Waste and the city – does volume matter?Are we aware how much waste we produce?



Are we aware how much waste we produce?

Why do we know so much about the supply chain and so little about the‘removal chain’?

What if waste collection suddendly stopped?(Think about what happened recently in Naples, Italy, where the streets were overwhelmed with garbage…)

Image a city entirely made of garbage

Wall-E’s post -human waste city of the future 2008’s waste emergency in Naples, Italy



the performance: from my house to the street… to where?

Disseminating tagged products into the city of New York

and following them in space and time

Has VIDEO



Trash Track: Diagram illustrating how the trash tag periodically measures its location and reports that data to the server via the cellular network.-MIT SENSEable City Lab



Trash Track: The custom designed electronic tag for Trash Track Project-MIT SENSEable City Lab



Trash Track: sample visualization from Trash Track project tracking a tagged aluminum can as it travels

trough garbage collection network of the city -MIT SENSEable City Lab



Crowdsensing: Tapping in to data collaboratively generated on User Generated Content SharingPlatforms to make sense of the spatial dynamics

Has VIDEO



Los Ojos del Mondo: an animation of the photos geo-tagged to different neighborhoods of Barcelonawith descriptive tags that relate to "partying" in the summer of 2007, shows that Barcelona’s old town(Ciutat Vella) is where one goes to have fun. MIT SENSEable City Lab



Los Ojos del Mondo: Another visualization in the same set looks at how Spain isphotographed by tourists over the course of one year. While the photos overlap incertain locations and expose places that attract the photographer's gaze, in other locations, the absence of images is eye-catching, revealing the more introvertedparts of Spain. MIT SENSEable City Lab

Has VIDEO



My Architect: an example of crowdsensing to make sense of professional architecture landscape and how architecture is received by the crowds.

MIT SENSEable City Lab



My Architect: an example of crowdsensing to make sense of professional architecture landscape and how architecture is received by the crowds.

MIT SENSEable City Lab

Has VIDEO



Citizens as Sensor-Actuators: The Copenhagen Wheel a Project by SENSEable City Lab

http://senseable.mit.edu/copenhagenwheel/



Processing



Processing is an open source programminglanguage and environment for people who wanttoprogram images, animation, and interactions.

http://processing.org/

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Arduino



Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform basedon flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software.

http://www.arduino.cc/



Setup Processing-Go to Procerssing Website –Download Processing with Java



http://processing.org/

http://processing.org/download/index.html

Go to Procerssing Website Download Processing with Java

Setup Processing-

Unzip the File and Go to Directory and Run Processing exe



Unzip the File and Go to Directory and Run Processing.exe

Setup Processing-Write Your First Processing Code and Run it



void setup(){

size(200,200);

}

void draw(){

background(255);

line(100,100,mouseX,mouseY);

Write Your First Processing Code and Run it

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