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April 9, 2013
The Open Office

A new project at London's Architecture Foundation, run by the architecture practice We Made That, aims to educate citizen planners by putting elements of localism on display for citizens to explore – and take part in.

In the UK, local planning is now in the hands of communities, following the passing of the Localism Act, which has the potential to give anyone a voice in neighborhood planning. The problem is that not many citizens are sure how the process should work.

September 27, 2012
CityDashboard: “The City Never Sleeps”

At the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London, the goal is to build a science of cities from a multidisciplinary base, drawing on cutting edge methods, and ideas in modeling, complexity, visualization, and computation.

At the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London, the goal is to build a science of cities from a multidisciplinary base, drawing on cutting edge methods, and ideas in modeling, complexity, visualization, and computation.

August 20, 2012
New Mobile Technology Solutions Offer Expanded Options For Citizen Involvement

 

Mobile technology is powerful; literally everyone seems to own a cell phone these days. When used in public settings, it has the potential to involve citizens in various stages of planning processes. A few projects have used mobile  tools to help enfold citizens into community planning at the pedestrian level.

Mobile technology is powerful; literally everyone seems to own a cell phone these days. When used in public settings, it has the potential to involve citizens in various stages of planning processes. A few projects have used mobile  tools to help enfold citizens into community planning at the pedestrian level.

July 18, 2012
Reflections: Appreciating New Communication Opportunities in Today’s Digital Revolution

How can technology provide useful insights in how cities function? How can this contribute to more informed planning? How does this impact society? The multidisciplinary conference, City of Flows, last week in Potsdam, Germany, explored these questions last week, providing unique“perspectives on the digital city in analog spaces”. I was fortunate to attend the conference and came away with many reflections concerning mapping and visualization of geographical data and the effects this technology has on society. 

How can technology provide useful insights in how cities function? How can this contribute to more informed planning? How does this impact society? The multidisciplinary conference, City of Flows, last week in Potsdam, Germany, explored these questions last week, providing unique“perspectives on the digital city in analog spaces”. I was fortunate to attend the conference and came away with many reflections concerning mapping and visualization of geographical data and the effects this technology has on society.

June 27, 2012
Spacehive: Crowd Funding Neighborhood Improvement Projects

When we read here about new and bright ideas that deserve support, it makes sense that we want to support those closest to home. In the same vein as Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website for creative ideas, Spacehive was been launched to support neighborhood building projects in the UK.  

When we read here about new and bright ideas that deserve support, it makes sense that we want to support those closest to home. In the same vein as Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website for creative ideas, Spacehive was been launched to support neighborhood building projects in the UK.  

April 4, 2012
The City of Flows -Interdisciplinary Perspectives On The Digital City and Analog Spaces

The future development of urban environments is the subject of controversial discussion and action all over the world. Programmes range from technologicallydriven Smart City concepts to local grassroots democracy initiatives. The one thing that these otherwise highly diverse movements have in common is that changes in the city climate mean they will and must fundamentally alter our city lives.

International conference organised by the “City- Climate Potsdam” Innovation Institute at Fachhochschule Potsdam (University of Applied Science) in cooperation with Potsdam city council.

December 29, 2011
Sixth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices

This Conference will address a range of critically important themes relating to design today. It is a place to explore the meaning and purpose of ‘design’, as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artifacts and processes. The Conference is a cross-disciplinary forum which brings together researchers, teachers and practitioners to discuss the nature and future of design. The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, market pragmatics and social idealism.

August 24, 2011
Online Participatory Budgeting Engages Citizens to Build Better Communities

Social media and new technologies can bring new ways for communities to interact. Yet the growth in online technologies is a fast moving picture with potentially good and bad outcomes. In recent riots in the UK social media was blamed for facilitating bad behaviour by the social underclass. 

June 17, 2011
Yellow Chair Stories: Investigating a Community's Sense of Belonging

Interesting experiment in engaging neighbors, conducted in London by college student Anab Jain, inspired by feedback from earlier research investigating people’s sense of belonging. In her words, " Somewhere between the electronic and the physical, lies a space which is informal, transiant and overwhelmingly immediate..." Take a look.

Find out more about this experiment at: http://www.anab.in/yeartwo/yellowchair/yellow.htm