Two articles re. urbanism, technology, place-making:
Demoing unto Death: Smart Cities, Environment, and Preemptive Hope
Orit Halpern, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
Gökçe Günel, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona
Orit Halpern, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
Gökçe Günel, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona
Fibreculture Journal 2017
Sustainable Arenas for Weedy Sociality: Distributed Wilderness
Sha Xin Wei
Maja Kuzmanovic
Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (DIAC) 2002
The latest essay, by Halpern and Günel is quite insightful, and despite the summary of vast bleakness,
opens the door for alternatives like “Metabolist" architecture (Arata Isozaki) and different ways to use our “graceful” machines and networks, and perhaps the “weedy sociality” in the DIAC-2002 paper, which is more an artist statement than social science.