La estructura de la Escuela de Bellas Artes de la Universidad ARCIS corresponde a los conceptos contemporáneos de la enseñanza en esta disciplina.

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Anthony Townsend is Associate Research Scientist at NYU’s Taub Urban Research Center. Anthony is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Urban Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds a Master of Urban Planning Degree from New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He has served as a consultant to major telecommunications companies and Internet service providers.

He developed two interesting research which are connected to my own interests:
1- The science of location: wireless, geography, urban planning and architecture;
2- Urban geography of digital networks;
3- the resilient city: how cities in the past have endured traumatic episodes, and prevailed to establish new order out of chaos and devastation.

The Taub Urban Research Center at NYU’s Wagner School explores issues and challenges affecting cities and metropolitan regions. The Center issues reports and conducts forums that include participants from government, business, nonprofit organizations, and the academic community. The Center is named for Henry Taub, a trustee of New York University, who has been a major benefactor of the Center since 1981. Additional funding for research is provided through grants from corporations, foundations, and government agencies.

The Taub Urban Research Center has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study information technology and cities. The project is entitled “Information Technologies and the Future of Urban Environments.” The results of this ongoing research can be found athttp://www.informationcity.org. You may also reach this new site from any page on this site though the “Free Transfer” link in the upper left hand corner.

Hall, Edward T. The Hidden Dimension. 1969. Anchor Books Editions, 1990.

Hall examines the various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. The Hidden Dimension demonstrates how man’s use of space can affect personal and business relations, cross-cultural exchanges, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal. Illustrated.

Davide Agnelli is a student at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, investigating the relationship between the use of mobile devices and proxemics (a word defined by T. Hall, as man’s use of space as a specialised elaboration of a culture). He is interested in the conjunction of the digital space created by the new mobile devices and the physical space around the body, the architectural space and the territory of the city.

Davide’s site at IDII

High-tech adventurers armed with satellite maps and GPS devices are scouring the globe for “confluences,” points where the lines of latitude and longitude collide.

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From the HUB at interaction design institute ivrea – foundations of interaction design

Urban spaces and interaction design

Wired / Unwired: The Urban Geography of Digital Networks

A few weeks ago, I read Anthony Townsend’s thesis on wireless networks, urban planning and urban design. It’s one of the more thought-provoking things I’ve read recently and have been recommending it to just about everyone (chapters 1, 6 and 7 are most relevant to interaction designers).

Interaction design should not just concern the screens and computer interfaces, but rather, the urban spaces we inhabit — and rather than drawing us further into our computers, we should be finding ways to interact better with our urban environments. The proliferation of networked technology has only reinforced our urban structures, Townsend argues. We don’t buy everything online, or use it as our sole means of communication.

As designers, what implications does this have on what we design for, or how we design it? How does it change what we get people to do in front of a screen of some sort? And what are the broader social implications — the city is ever-more important, according to Townsend. Where should we focus our energies?

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CoPilot is a bluetooth receiver produced by ALK which is particularly accurate and light.

A company called wayfinder has started selling mobile navigation for phones j2me compatible.