{"id":6408,"date":"2009-10-26T08:09:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diversifiedcuriosities.com\/?p=6408"},"modified":"2017-08-18T18:01:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:01:30","slug":"a-synchronicity-design-fictions-for-asynchronous-urban-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2009\/10\/26\/a-synchronicity-design-fictions-for-asynchronous-urban-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"A synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This just in: <a href=\"http:\/\/archleague.org\/2009\/10\/situated-technologies-pamphlets-5\/\">A Synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/liftlab.com\/think\/nova\/\">Nicolas Nova<\/a> and myself conversing about what we&#8217;re calling asynchronous urban computing \u2014 has been released by the Architectural League of New York. It&#8217;s a dialogue on an inverted urban computation framework, with material embodiments of the peculiar designed artifacts we cooked up to help explicate our upside down worlds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/diversifiedcuriosities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/4048537309_02cb3f43d61.jpg\" alt=\"A synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing\" title=\"A synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/4048537309_02cb3f43d61.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/4048537309_02cb3f43d61-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the editors have to say:<\/p>\n<div class=\"bookquote\">\n<p>In the last five years, the urban computing field has featured an impressive emphasis on the so-called \u201creal-time, database-enabled city\u201d with its synchronized Internet of Things. In Situated Technologies Pamphlets 5, Julian Bleecker and Nicholas Nova argue to invert this common perspective and speculate on the existence of an \u201casynchronous city.\u201d Through a discussion of objects that blog, they forecast situated technologies based on weak signals that show the importance of time on human practices. They imagine the emergence of truly social technologies that through thoughtful provocation can invert and disrupt common perspective.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s available from Lulu, which means you can download it for free, or buy it for real and augment the reality of your book pile. I suggest buying it. We don&#8217;t get a penny, but the folks over at The Architectural League and the Situated Technologies genies need to keep doing the cool, curious things they do.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Situated Technologies editors, Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz and Mark Shepherd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in: A Synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing \u2014 Nicolas Nova and myself conversing about what we&#8217;re calling asynchronous urban computing \u2014 has been released by the Architectural League of New York. 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