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Architecture and Situated Technologies

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Begun as a research unit within the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Architecture Urbanism Design Collaborative [AUDC] is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using the tools of architecture to research the role of the individual and the community in the contemporary urban environment.

Socialight lets you create virtual Sticky Notes anywhere in the real world and share them
with others.

should transform the “new” technologies of mobile and
pervasive computing, ubiquitous networks, smart materials and locative media
into experiences that matter

investigates the impact of computation and communications on architecture and urbanism. What opportunities do programming, telematics, and new media offer architecture? How does the network city affect the building? Who is the subject and what is the object in a world of networked things and spaces? How do transformations in communications reflect and affect the broader socioeconomic milieu?

...is a project to develop experiential forms of journalism and nonfiction
storytelling for use at specific locations. Stories are presented through
text, images and audio files that participants can download from the Web to
their handheld computers and take with them to the place of interest.