urbanism

The Pachube community and a growing group of contributors including Mark Shepard, JP de Vooght, Rob van Kranenburg and others have embarked on developing what they are calling Air Quality Eggs. Taking another step forward in the emerging world of citizen sensing the open-source...

The Architectural League of New York has just released their 8th pamphlet in their ongoing Situated Technologies series. This latest pamphlet is written by the artist and designer Christian Nold and by the founder of the Internet of Things...

Articulated Surface is a project created by three students (Justine Holzman, Ji Park and Luke Venable) for their Responsive Systems course at LSU's Landscape Architecture program. The proposal uses real-time data from the Atchafalaya River Basin to create a dynamic art installation and public...

Although currently not using real time data, The Cabsense app by Sense Networks is an interesting project that shows potential for how data and sensor networks can be utilized in practical on the ground situations for users. From...

City Dashboard is a project created by researchers at the CASA research lab that gives you a quick and easy way to check the real-time "pulse" of your city via a single page that aggregates and displays information from public API's and a range...

City Fireflies is an installation created by design and technology collective UNCODED for the facade at the Prado MediaLab in Madrid. The game functions by using light from cell phones as controllers that remove the "threats" that are...

Color Forecast is an app and website developed by fashion brand Pimkie that shows you which colors are trending in Europe's fashion capitals in real-time. Video cameras were placed strategically in high fashion/traffic areas in Paris, Milan, and Antwerp and then fed back into...

James and Joshua over at the Rockwell Group labs are getting some recognition in this years IxDAwards for their Plug-In-Play project installed in late 2010 at Richard Meier's San Jose City Hall. The project functioned via "stations" placed...

Crafting Urban Camouflage: A workshop held as part of DIS 2012 in Newcastle, UK that seeks to address questions concerning public visibility in a technological landscape. - How might managing our visibility affect our inhabitation patterns of space?...

The project was created by Timo Arnall, Einar Sneve Martinussen from AHO and Jack Schulze from BERG and is part of the larger research initiative Touch that investigates Near Field Communication and develops applications and services that enable people to interact with everyday objects...

Funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore and completed by MIT Senseable City Lab. The project hoped to give Singaporeans a new awareness of how their city behaves in response to their actions and presented the results to them through a series...

Forbes recently featured an article highlighting the construction of NASA's new 'Sustainability Base' a new facility at the Ames Research Center that will feature over 5,000 sensors in the new 2-story building expected to be completed the first quarter of...

Nordkapp is a group of experienced designers, strategists and technologists with a variety of backgrounds ranging from design to architecture, engineering, and ethnographic research. Nordkapp was founded by five designers in 2007, and is still 100% owned by the original founders and the working...

From the project Homepage: "The Reconfigurable House is an environment constructed from thousands of low tech components that can be "rewired" by visitors. The project is a critique of ubiquitous computing "smart homes", which are based on the...

A recent winner of the "Future Internet Award". The SmartSantander initiative involves a city-wide experimental research facility where developers, citizens, researchers, organizations and businesses are experimenting with new applications. The project aims at providing a European experimental test facility...

From their project page: THE COPHENHAGEN WHEEL Smart, responsive and elegant, the Copenhagen Wheel is a new emblem for urban mobility. It transforms ordinary bicycles quickly into hybrid...

From their project page: Why do we know so much about the supply chain and so little about the 'removal-chain'? Imagine a future where immense amounts of trash...

UrbComp 2012 (International Workshop on Urban Computing) will be held this year in conjunction with the 18th ACM SIGKDD 2012 on August 12, 2012 in Beijing. The workshop will provide "professionals, researchers, and practitioners who are interested in...

LiveHoods is a project developed by a group of Urban Computing researchers at Carnegie Mellon focused on "studying the dynamics, structure, and character of a city on a large scale using social media and machine learning."Starting with New York City, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh the team...

Noise detections in realtime from all the world WideNoise is the iPhone and iPod Touch application that samples decibel noise levels, and displays them on a worldwide interactive map Check noise levelsWith...