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DataSpaces

Informing the Urban Landscape

Urban Century: October 7, 2013

Shannon MatternSchool of Media Studies

wordsinspace.net | @shannonmattern


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Studio Pei-Zhi, Digital Beijing, 2008


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Photos by Ran Kim


9/37Bookcity as seen from Mt. Simhak, with Han River and neighboring New Towns in the background; Photo by Ran Kim


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Model of Phase 1 Development; Photo by Ran Kim


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Model ShowingField Architecture

of Phase 2;Photo by Ran Kim


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Photo by Ran Kim


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Photo by Ran Kim


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Photo by Ran Kim


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Photos by Ran Kim


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Why spend tens of millions of dollars on a

downtown library building in the age ofGoogle and ubiquitous Apple Stores?

Does anybody believe libraries are a waste

of taxpayer money? A misuse of good real-

estate?

What formal and informal functionsparticularly cultural functionsdoes the

library continue to serve?


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Roundtable Discussions re: The High Line

How can libraries engage with

their publicsthrough formal,

institutional means?

How are libraries unique in their

relationships to a cityspublics?


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Via OMA

How do we form,or manage, the data

we collect via public

design processes?


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Via OMA


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From Georges Perecs Species of Spaces, by James C. Cameron Silva, 2011


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How might

informal,grassroots libraries

generate data

regarding how ourinstitutionallibraries can

function more

responsively,effectively, and

efficiently?


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Via GCN
http://gcn.com/articles/2013/08/06/denver-water.aspxhttp://gcn.com/articles/2013/08/06/denver-water.aspx


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Through its concentration of physical and cultural power,

the city heightened the tempo of human intercourse andtranslated its products into forms that could be stored and

reproduced. Through its monuments, written records, andorderly habits of association, the city enlarged the scope of

all human activities, extending them backwards andforwards in time. By means of its storage facilities

(buildings, vaults, archives, monuments, tablets, books), thecity became capable of transmitting a complex culture from

generation to generation, for it marshalled together not onlythe physical means but the human agents needed to pass on

and enlarge this heritage. That remains the greatest of the

city's gifts. As compared with the complex human order ofthe city, our present ingenious electronic mechanisms forstoring and transmitting information are crude and limited.

-Lewis Mumford, The City in History


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Fast forward, and some have written of the this centurys

cities developing new artificial nervous systems, tosupersede those articulated metabolic systems of the 19th

century. These newer nervous systems, not centralised but

distributed, and predicated on digital networks of networks

in which every object is informational and every movementor behaviour is trackable, could combine to form a new

kind of lattice-like informational membrane, hovering

magically over the physical fabric of the city. As if one of

Calvinos imaginary cities comprised solely of information,

a limitless multidimensional data-based shadow structure

represents the life of the city in real-time.-Dan Hill, The Adaptive City City of Sound


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Rios IBM Command Center, via NY Times


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Songdo, South Korea; Masdar, U.A.E.


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Via IBM

Smarter

Cities
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/index.html?csr=caus_smartercities20130708&cm=k&cr=google&ct=USBRB301&S_TACT=USBRB301&ck=smarter_cities&cmp=USBRB&mkwid=sZxWtjsmn-dc_13596274842_432t5q28552http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/index.html?csr=caus_smartercities20130708&cm=k&cr=google&ct=USBRB301&S_TACT=USBRB301&ck=smarter_cities&cmp=USBRB&mkwid=sZxWtjsmn-dc_13596274842_432t5q28552http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/index.html?csr=caus_smartercities20130708&cm=k&cr=google&ct=USBRB301&S_TACT=USBRB301&ck=smarter_cities&cmp=USBRB&mkwid=sZxWtjsmn-dc_13596274842_432t5q28552http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/index.html?csr=caus_smartercities20130708&cm=k&cr=google&ct=USBRB301&S_TACT=USBRB301&ck=smarter_cities&cmp=USBRB&mkwid=sZxWtjsmn-dc_13596274842_432t5q28552http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/index.html?csr=caus_smartercities20130708&cm=k&cr=google&ct=USBRB301&S_TACT=USBRB301&ck=smarter_cities&cmp=USBRB&mkwid=sZxWtjsmn-dc_13596274842_432t5q28552http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/index.html?csr=caus_smartercities20130708&cm=k&cr=google&ct=USBRB301&S_TACT=USBRB301&ck=smarter_cities&cmp=USBRB&mkwid=sZxWtjsmn-dc_13596274842_432t5q28552


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[r]ecasting [of] all complex social situations either

as neatly defined problems with definite,

computable solutions or as transparent and self-

evident processes that can be easily optimizedifonly the right algorithms are in place!

-Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything, Click Here


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