We featured some other work from the course earlier in the week, detailing a 3D City based on Conway's Game of Life, with this quality of output compared to other courses we have seen ETH is up there with some of the best.
Friday, 2 April 2010
The Attractive City Generator
The 'Attractive City Generator' is an an interactive installation by Sofia Georgakopoulou, Edyta Augustynowicz and Setafnie Sixt. It was created as part of the The Master of Advanced Studies in CAAD at ETH in Zurich. The students task was to explore urban design methodologies with the use of parametric programs based on object oriented programing, with their particular area of interest focosed on interactivity in urban planning. The video below is extremely impressive, indeed it raises the bar for student projects:
We featured some other work from the course earlier in the week, detailing a 3D City based on Conway's Game of Life, with this quality of output compared to other courses we have seen ETH is up there with some of the best.
We featured some other work from the course earlier in the week, detailing a 3D City based on Conway's Game of Life, with this quality of output compared to other courses we have seen ETH is up there with some of the best.
Tech/Geo Buzz Words Early 2010 - Rising and Falling Terms and Phrases
At the moment we are mid-writing with various, papers, technical reports and book chapters all seemingly with the deadline of next week. As such and while looking back through previous papers and grants we have identified the 10 phases and buzz words that are either on the rise or on their way down.
Buzz Words on the up...
GeoCloud - geographic data and visualisation tools via cloud computing, we used it in a paper last year and it still feels timely.
Digital Recursion - the activity of representing and accessing digital media which is nested in some form within computer networks. A phrase by Mike Batty, again in a joint paper from last year (see our publications page), he has a tendency to come up with catchy terms.
Web 3.0 - although annoying to many after the over use of Web 2.0, Web 3.0 is arguably read/write/execute with the operating system and the web being one and the same.
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) - is the harnessing of tools to create, assemble, and disseminate geographic data provided voluntarily by individuals (Goodchild, 2007). Not a new term by any means but still a good one to use in any paper or grant involving geographic information. Indeed its one of the those phases you wish you had come up with yourself.
Steady
Mirror Worlds - representations of the real world in scaled down simplified form that were originally pictured as working in parallel to the reality itself but with strong interaction both ways between reality and it mirror. The term was first popularized by David Gerlernter.
Social Shaping - although not a new term by any means it crops up a lot in papers and grant applications at the moment. In short the term can be linked back to MacKenzie and Wajcman's 1985 publication 'The Social Shaping of Technology' where they state that the characteristics of a society play a major part in deciding which technologies are adopted.
With the rise of browser technologies the concepts behind social shaping provide an interesting take on which tech comes to the forefront and we would argue their ever shortening lifespan.
Buzz words on the way down...
Digital - technology that uses discrete (discontinuous) values. By contrast, non-digital (or analog) systems use a continuous range of values to represent information. Slightly worrying as that's the name of the blog, it just feels a bit 90's...
Neogeography - a diverse set of practices that operate outside, or alongside, or in a manner of, the practices of professional geographers. As we mentioned in a previous post, that was 2006-2009, its time to move on.
Far Down -
The Grid - increasingly being replaced in papers by mentioning Web Based Services, which it could be argued can also be seen as The Cloud. The Oxford e-Science Centre define The Grids as:
Web 2.0 - the term Web 2.0 has been around since 2004 and is still at the forefront of many academic discussions on the future of technology. Coming about as the result of a discussion between Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty on the status of the web, Tim puts forward a list from 2004 which puts the term into context:
Wikipedia notes that Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. Web 3.0 is nipping at its heals as a new dawn of read/write/execute leaves Web 2.0 behind.
This post should perhaps be filed under 'ways to write anything but that tricky bit in the paper that's due next week'...
Buzz Words on the up...
GeoCloud - geographic data and visualisation tools via cloud computing, we used it in a paper last year and it still feels timely.
Digital Recursion - the activity of representing and accessing digital media which is nested in some form within computer networks. A phrase by Mike Batty, again in a joint paper from last year (see our publications page), he has a tendency to come up with catchy terms.
Web 3.0 - although annoying to many after the over use of Web 2.0, Web 3.0 is arguably read/write/execute with the operating system and the web being one and the same.
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) - is the harnessing of tools to create, assemble, and disseminate geographic data provided voluntarily by individuals (Goodchild, 2007). Not a new term by any means but still a good one to use in any paper or grant involving geographic information. Indeed its one of the those phases you wish you had come up with yourself.
Steady
Mirror Worlds - representations of the real world in scaled down simplified form that were originally pictured as working in parallel to the reality itself but with strong interaction both ways between reality and it mirror. The term was first popularized by David Gerlernter.
Social Shaping - although not a new term by any means it crops up a lot in papers and grant applications at the moment. In short the term can be linked back to MacKenzie and Wajcman's 1985 publication 'The Social Shaping of Technology' where they state that the characteristics of a society play a major part in deciding which technologies are adopted.
With the rise of browser technologies the concepts behind social shaping provide an interesting take on which tech comes to the forefront and we would argue their ever shortening lifespan.
Buzz words on the way down...
Digital - technology that uses discrete (discontinuous) values. By contrast, non-digital (or analog) systems use a continuous range of values to represent information. Slightly worrying as that's the name of the blog, it just feels a bit 90's...
Neogeography - a diverse set of practices that operate outside, or alongside, or in a manner of, the practices of professional geographers. As we mentioned in a previous post, that was 2006-2009, its time to move on.
Far Down -
The Grid - increasingly being replaced in papers by mentioning Web Based Services, which it could be argued can also be seen as The Cloud. The Oxford e-Science Centre define The Grids as:
The name that describes the next significant development in Internet computing. A term first coined in the mid '90s to describe a vision for a distributed computing infrastructure for advanced science projects, the Grid was first properly explained by Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman in their book The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure.The Grid is currently lost in the trough of disillusionment and all those hours sat at conferences talking about it feel a bit wasted.
Web 2.0 - the term Web 2.0 has been around since 2004 and is still at the forefront of many academic discussions on the future of technology. Coming about as the result of a discussion between Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty on the status of the web, Tim puts forward a list from 2004 which puts the term into context:
| Web 1.0 | Web 2.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| DoubleClick | --> | Google AdSense |
| Ofoto | --> | Flickr |
| Akamai | --> | BitTorrent |
| mp3.com | --> | Napster |
| Britannica Online | --> | Wikipedia |
| personal websites | --> | blogging |
| evite | --> | upcoming.org and EVDB |
| domain name speculation | --> | search engine optimization |
| page views | --> | cost per click |
| screen scraping | --> | web services |
| publishing | --> | participation |
| content management systems | --> | wikis |
| directories (taxonomy) | --> | tagging ("folksonomy") |
| stickiness | --> | syndication |
Wikipedia notes that Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. Web 3.0 is nipping at its heals as a new dawn of read/write/execute leaves Web 2.0 behind.
This post should perhaps be filed under 'ways to write anything but that tricky bit in the paper that's due next week'...
Noticings : The Game of Noticing the World Around You
This is a nice concept - taking photos of things you 'notice' and uploading them to flickr with the tag 'noticings' and a geolocation. Noticings are interesting things that you stumble across when out and about.
In short, Noticings is basically a game about learning to look at the world around you, as their site states - Cities are wonderful places, and everybody finds different things in them. Some of us like to take pictures of interesting, unusual, or beautiful things we see, but many of use are moving so fast through the urban landscape we don't take in the things around us.
You need a camera, and a way of recording where a photo was taken. That might be adding it by hand to the image within Flickr, or it might be a GPS. The ideal device to play Noticings is a camera with GPS built-in, such as the camera on a Smartphone like an iPhone or Android device.
Head over to http://noticin.gs/ to take part, we like it a lot!
Thanks to Ben over at Section 9 for sending this in.
In short, Noticings is basically a game about learning to look at the world around you, as their site states - Cities are wonderful places, and everybody finds different things in them. Some of us like to take pictures of interesting, unusual, or beautiful things we see, but many of use are moving so fast through the urban landscape we don't take in the things around us.
You need a camera, and a way of recording where a photo was taken. That might be adding it by hand to the image within Flickr, or it might be a GPS. The ideal device to play Noticings is a camera with GPS built-in, such as the camera on a Smartphone like an iPhone or Android device.
Head over to http://noticin.gs/ to take part, we like it a lot!
Thanks to Ben over at Section 9 for sending this in.
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