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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?

Proactive archeology of our urban landscapes and emerging technology

During 2005-2006, The Annenberg Center for Communication at The University of Southern California is sponsoring a research group on “Networked Publics."

netPublics explores the roles of audiences, activists, citizens, and producers in maturing networked media ecologies.

Public Authoring in the Wireless City Urban Tapestries is an experimental software platform for knowledge mapping and sharing – public authoring. It combines mobile and internet technologies with geographic information systems to allow people to build relationships between places and to associate stories, information, pictures, sounds and videos with them.

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.