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What do New Yorkers complain about? 6 Feb 2013 | 01:23 am
Currently I am working on a comparative study of the design factors of citizen feedback systems based on the data they generate. The recent history of these systems is a tale of growing ambition. In t...
accountability technologies 24 Aug 2012 | 09:29 pm
I am co-curating a symposium on accountability technologies at ars electronica this year. It is a symposium about bottom-up governance, and ways in which technologies can help to influence policy deci...
Dissecting Trash Objects 22 Jul 2012 | 11:31 pm
A workshop together with Pablo Rey from Basurama in the Guggenheim Lab Berlin investigating the hidden processes and stories that are embedded in consumer products. We all know how our waste looks lik...
Inscribing a Square: Urban Data as Public Space – new book out 12 Jul 2012 | 04:08 am
After several months of work, we finally made it. The book on our last year’s Symposium, Sensing Place / Placing Sense has been published and is available from Springer. In his1965 movie Alphaville, ...
Two new Journal Papers in JAPA, Leonardo 5 May 2012 | 06:31 am
The first paper, “Putting Matter in Place”, written with the senseable city lab, is a reflection on the lessons we have learned from the Trash | Track project for the discipline of for urban planning....
DUST – Laboratoria Moscow 19 Apr 2012 | 04:54 am
Our ongoing interest in exploring dust as an aesthetic and interactive medium aligned perfectly with the new exhibition “DUST” (12.4.12 – 15.7.12) in Laboratoria art & science space in Moscow, curated...
forage tracking 23 Jan 2012 | 09:24 am
The Forage Tracking project is mapping the tacit knowledge and spatial organization of informal recyclers in downtown Saõ Paulo. We used location-detecting hardware and software to investigate how th...
Active Listening Sites 9 Sep 2011 | 01:20 am
A new stadtmusik work, tying together a lot of what we were working on in the past couple of years. The physical configuration of the built environment generates a wide spectrum of acoustic effect...
sensing place / placing sense (symposium, exhibition) 8 Sep 2011 | 12:58 am
The mental image of the city has become more complex. Since mobile phones have become geo-social devices, location-based data is increasingly shaping the way we navigate, experience and define the urb...
BackTalk 21 Jul 2011 | 12:17 am
A new senseable city lab project i worked on is now exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. BackTalk is in many ways a follow up project on Trash | Track, this time focusing on obsolete ele...
