Smart Cities

Slides from a talk given by Nicolas Nova at the BBVA Innovation Center (January 18, 2012) Beyond Smart Cities event. It covers his perspective on the problem of predictions based on networked data in the context of "Smart Cities"

Duncan Wilson of Arup Foresight talks about data as a material, social as a process where he discusses how Information Technology is beginning to have a profound effect on the way theBuilt Environment is planned, designed, procured, constructed and operated.

Martijn de Waal from The Mobile City presents Digital Infrastructures & The City: The Future(s) of Urban Public Space.

Toronto based designer and educator Greg Smith (@Serial_consign) has released his slides on Mediated Cityscapes from the 2012 Resonate festival that take a look at how "emerging media paradigms are affecting how we perceive urban space and (more importantly) how these tools allow us...

Mark Shepard from Situated Technologies presented Situating Design, Designing Situations at the Media City Conference in 2008.   He spoke of Situationism, Psychogeography, and Gordon Pask in the context of design and interaction.

Fabien Girardin from the Near Future Laboratory presented a talk titled Sketching with urban data at the Smart City World Congress in Barcelona. "I could not help but contribute to the congress with my experience...

Rob McIntosh (Creative Director at Frog Design) put together this presentation for Mobile World Congress on Envisioning the “Meta-City”.Frog is also a part of the New Cities Foundation and has several other inititives moving forward the idea of the city as a new digital...

Chris Heathcote gives us a great overview of Urban Computing and some of the technologies and projects so far.