LIFT Conference Blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... today, and come and see us in Barcelona! Laurent takes the near future pose made popular by Nicolas Nova and Julian Bleecker , the later a repeated offender ( 1 | 2 | 3 ) Several of our friends and partners are also attending: our Geneva conference center , Amiando , Swiss start-up Klewel and Sebastien Tondeur of MCI are among the people you will meet in the corridors of the Gran...
communicatrix (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... it pleases the gods enough to throw in a free gift with purchase: life, well-lived. xxx c Image by nicolas nova via Flickr , used under a Creative Commons license .
7.5th Floor (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Yesterday, I delivered my last formal talk of the year at the Lift @ home session on “Urban informatics / Les nouveaux paysages numériques“, organized by Nicolas Nova in the Lift Conference premises in Geneva. This event was part of the urban informatics workshop series Nicolas and have been running. I played the role of [...]
LIFT Conference Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The next Lift@home will happen next Monday (Nov 9) in Geneva. Organized by Nicolas Nova, the event will be about " Urban informatics ". Future "networked and digital cities" have popped up on the radar for sometime now. This is a topic we address on a regular basis at Lift from a various set of viewpoints (art, design, architecture, digital services) and with a long-term...
7.5th Floor (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
In the latest Situated Technologies pamphlet “A synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing“, Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova discuss the notion of “real-time cities” shifting discussion away from the hygienist model of efficiency towards unscripting the unexpected and cultivating the unusual. In a world of “open data initiatives”...
pasta and vinegar (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... its synchronized Internet of Things. In Situated Technologies Pamphlets 5, Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova argue to invert this common perspective and speculate on the existence of an “asynchronous city.” Through a discussion of objects that blog, they forecast situated technologies based on weak signals that show the importance of time on human practices. They imagine the emergence...
