[to live or to master: give examples on when people live and when people master – what does it mean to be an active citizen, what does it mean to take responsability for proper choices/life style – what does it mean to have a community life – how can we rethink the change? – how can we democratise spaces?]

>> process: understand how people perceive the city, what are the cognitive process related to learning, (1st dimension), how the way people undestand the city reflect in the way people live the city space? – how people live the city? What are the current opportunities for being part of the community and being an active citizen? (2nd dimension) – How technology can help making the shift (if it is possible) – What are current opportunities (examples) – What is our approach to the problem (3rd dimension).

it’s a bit sad …

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“D’una città non godi le sette o le settantasette meraviglie, ma la risposta che dà a una tua domanda.” (Italo Calvino)

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Their mission is to create new knowledge; to shorten the lag time between successful urban innovations and their implementation; and to prepare the next generation of urban leaders for the complex challenges ahead.

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Today I found this aerial view of the city which was designed for “mogi item hunt” game. I like the way items are arranged in the map, the emergent labeling of the game, the perspective, the air fading, and the representation of the avatars.

[photo: Paul Baron, via links.net]

Newt Games is a company focusing on design and production of location-based games. Their are the designer of KIDDI Mogi Item Hunt.

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Natalie Jeremijenko, is a design engineer and technoartist. Recently she was named one of the top one hundred young innovators by the MIT Technology Review, her work was featured in the Tate Gallery Cream 2, and a large project was commissioned for the opening of the museum MASSMoCA (www.massmoca.org ). Her work includes digital, electromechanical, and interactive systems in addition to biotechnological work that have been included in the Rotterdam Film Festival (2000), the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1999), the Museum Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, the LUX Gallery, London (1999), the Whitney Biennial ‘97, Documenta ‘97, Ars Electronic prix ‘96, presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was a 1999 Rockefeller fellow.

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Giles Lane is the founder of Proboscis and directs the research programme SoMa (social matrices). He is an Associate Research Fellow at the London School of Economics MEDIA@LSE programme, and was Research Fellow in Communication Art & Design at the Royal College of Art (2001-2002). Prior to that he was Writer, Editor & Curator to the Computer Related Design Research Studio at the Royal College of Art where he commissioned and published 5 books for the RCA CRD RESEARCH imprint and curated two exhibition projects: This Appliance Must be Earthed and Click Forward Online Films. Giles was founder and editor of COIL journal of the moving image (1995-2000) and editor of Mapping Perception, a book and CD-ROM accompanying the science-art project. Giles co-authored (with Paul Farrington) Interactive: the internet for graphic designers (Rotovision 2002). Giles has initiated and managed many of Proboscis’ projects including: Mapping Perception, Private Reveries, Public Spaces, Urban Tapestries, Sonic Geographies, DIFFUSION eBooks, COIL and Topologies. He leads Proboscis’ consultancy projects including work for IDEO London, Rotovison, NESTA and the Arts Council of England.