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Proactive archeology of our urban landscapes and emerging technology

Urban knowledge: knowledge that is embedded into urban space

LooseGrid is a laboratory for interdisciplinary research in the city exploring the relationships between the urban space, art and new technologies. It takes the form of a computer-based network built as a creative environment where residents of local districts and researchers can work together exploring the urban space through the generation of creative feedback.

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

The premise for this workshop was to bring members of the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) community together with researchers and practitioners from the fields of urban planning, architecture, and design, who are interested in similar issues, in an effort to critically examine the interrelationship of technology and the urban environment. 

The aim of the LoVEUS (Location aware Visually Enhanced Ubiquitous Services) project is to provide European citizens with ubiquitous services for personalised, tourism-oriented multimedia information related to the location and orientation within cultural sites or urban settings, occasionally enriched with relevant advertisements.

The aim of the LoVEUS (Location aware Visually Enhanced Ubiquitous Services) project is to provide European citizens with ubiquitous services for personalised, tourism-oriented multimedia information related to the location and orientation within cultural sites or urban settings, occasionally enriched with relevant advertisements.

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.

Conflux is Glowlab's annual New York City festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice.

Mobile Bristol Toolkit Download the non-commercial version here. Contact us for commercial use. The Mobile Bristol Centre was a programme investigating how mobile devices and pervasive information technology can be used to enhance the ways in which residents and visitors experience and interact with their physical environment and with each other in urban and public spaces. Imagine a digital landscape overlaying the physical world. As we walk around this landscape, we can tap into the digital sounds, sights and interactions that are positioned in the landscape and activated by our presence and actions. The digital landscape is formed from a dynamic and overlapping set of mediascapes which are context-sensitive combinations of digital media and interactions created and deployed by various authors. The project has created a toolkit, which provides a digital canvas over the physical landscape onto which digital experiences can be painted and new commercial opportunities can be explored. As people walk through the physical environment, a diverse range of digital media experiences augment the ambiance and bring these spaces alive. The project had three main threads. Each thread informs, drives and enables the others.

True Secrets There are secrets in this city. True Secrets' detectives have uncovered a treasure chest of urban tales, rumors and lost news stories. Zoom into the story and be swept back in time with these high-quality, site-specific, immersive audio dramas.

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?