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Dead Media &The Flavour of Cities The meme is the message
A discussion led by Thomas Purveshttp://opencities.cahttp://thomaspurves.com
Open Cities Conference, Toronto, 2007
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Two Modern Spaces
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WTF?
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WTF?
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Mediums behave like memesIn that they propagate by their own rules.Proppaging through
society like waves
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Forces of Media:economicsgame theorysnowball effectsinnovationculturechoice-can you name others?-
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Catch: Any new media always obsolesces an old
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dead media always has some particular flavor, some character that is always lost
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Dead flavours are also an opportunity.Retrieval.
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Dead flavour
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Sometimes we miss old flavours
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Sometimes we don’t
The black death as a flavour of medieval cities.
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Cars! e.g. Long lasting and unexpected flavours implications
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Good
Freedom, mobility, picking up chicks.
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Externalities are also flavours
Bad
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Ugly
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Just Arbitrary
There’s many slightly arbitrary ways to design a streetlight
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Debatable
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The Region of Awesome
The Zone of the Possible
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The Region of Awesome
The Zone of the Possible
Changes in Media reshape the zone of the possible
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The Region of Awesome
The Zone of the Possible 1890
Flavour Shift
The Zone of the Possible 2007
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Land of Suck
The Region of Awesome
The Zone of the Possible
(great sea of indifference)
FurtherComplications
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Flavour loss of the industrial age.
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Rising costs of labour
Rising costs of craftmanship
Prefabrication and
standardization bring
advantages at the cost of
flavour
(how much has this
affected our culture’s sense
of aesthetic?)
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What flavours will“Open” bring?
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Complimentary
3D House PrintingSide effects? Nothing has to be prefab. Organic designs. Changing the shape of the possibility space
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Emergence is a flavour of open design
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Quality or Crap?
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Discussion