The urban Gallery, Tokyo Story was a project organised by CHORA where during one week urban planners interact fir a negotiation process for urban planning.

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Today I found this company which is doing something pretty similar to my mapTribe project. I am happy to see that my ideas were correct in some extent …

You can zoom around a map and interact with location based content. From WaveMarket

A flock of paper boats at EPFL …

Fusedspace is an international competition for innovative applications for new technologies in the public domain.

http://www.fusedspace.org/

Carlo Ratti is a practicing architect who directs the MIT SENSEable City Laboratory – a new research initiative between the Media Lab and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. He graduated in structural engineering at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris. He later completed a PhD and an MPhil at the University of Cambridge Department of Architecture. He is a Junior Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a regular contributor of articles on architecture to Domus, Casabella and the leading Italian newspapers La Stampa and Il Sole 24 Ore (Domenica).

The Godesic Lab at EPFL has developed a location positioning system called INS Inertial Navigation System which connects a GPS to a compass and a gyroscope. Using this system is possible to track very finely the movements of a person in a urban context.

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