This tool enable s the user to track his/her car or kid or pet in the space and retrieve this information on the internet or on another phone. This system combines a GPS and a GSM.
Monthly Archive for February, 2004
uLocate enables the user to view the locations of all family members on a web site or on a mobile phone. It enables to review all the locations visited (! interesting feature) and be alerted when a person leave or enter in a specified location.
The manner in which global trends affect cities and increase the instability in local environments with their own dynamics, is like letting a rising river loose on a house. Global trends create urban flotsam. Urban flotsam and its complex dynamics form a second skin of the earth. How is this second skin visible and how can it be put to use in the quest for new urban planning tools and policies? Who gives it form and sustains its organization? ‘Urban Flotsam’ is a book that attempts to answer these questions through examples, but in doing so it postulates the need for a more consistent way of answering them. The book addresses this need through the formation of an outline for a methodology. This methodology consists of four major parts: 1. How to see manifestations of global influences on local environments? 2. How to model them? 3. How to develop and communicate scenarios on the basis of this knowledge? 4. How to implement scenarios? The book contains a manifesto for a general debate of these issues, a more poetic setting of the theme of the second skin of the earth as urban phenomenon, short theoretical introductions to individual issues, case studies undertaken in urban situations and didactic exercises to demonstrate the need for research in a pedagogical context. The book is the first major publication by Chora architecture and urbanism, an independent research laboratory. Chora has built up a body of knowledge and experience through workshops, commissions, teaching and self-initiated studies which has led to the formulation of the methodology and practice outlined in ‘Urban Flotsam’. Chora postulates that drastic reforms or innovations are necessary within the practice and education of architecture, urban design and urban planning in order to meet the challenges of the second skin and the demands of its inhabitants. Together with the artist Jeanne van Heeswijk it calls for a new practice called ‘urban curation’.
Chora / Raoul Bunschoten, Uitgeverij 010/ 010publishers, 446 p, fl. 137,73
ISBN 90 6450 387 7
Today we sent eating a La Banane. I could not resist taking a picture of this beautiful tree. I perceived so present and strang that it is not possible for me to pass by and to not look at it. I look at him and I think that this plant was here ages before I was born, and that many lives have passed by his body and even touched it. I feel strange …
Today I walked by these beautiful gardens and I just noticed how nice they are. These spaces are for rent for people that cannot have a garden in the city centre. This is something unusual for me because, as an Italian, I am not used to these kind of “powerful ideas” 
… Anyway, I just thought that was great to give possibility to people to cultivate their food even in our modern and pre-cooked society.
From IDII Internet site:
Stefano Mirti is an architect who has worked in Italy, Tokyo, Seoul, Bangkok.
From 1998 to 2001, he worked as a post-doctorate researcher at Tokyo University and lectured at Tama Art University (Tokyo). He there designed such unique projects as the policarbonate house and the neon gardens, and initiated Now the Future, a project for a digital image atlas of the world.
While in Italy, he was one of the founders of Cliostraat, a design group of architects, artists and photographers that designed houses, parks, public facilities, sports facilities and temporary exhibition pavilions.
He was three times awarded the prestigious Europan architectural prize (1995, 1997 and 2001) and was the driving force behind the acclaimed Dumia project, an aluminium dome installed on Piazza Reale in Turin during BIG Torino 2002.
Stefano Mirti also taught at his former Department of Architecture in Turin.
Stefano at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
Today I had a telephonic conversation with Carlo Ratti. He started with some advices on the research proposal I was developing and he said that it is not clear at glance from what other research project differ and in what. At the moment he is involved in a project at MIT. He is working at the SENSEable City Laboratory. He is carrying out a research for Vodafone to try to understand how people use urban space using the data of radio saturation.
At his lab he is following three directions: (a) describe urban space using new media; (b) Use the outcomes of these new representations for designing activities; (c) Understanding how the city is going to change according to this new technology.
FieldMap is a software developed at the University of Kent, Canterbury, which helps professionals to collect data and notes relating to them GPS position. In addition, the author used the system to track movement of the user and to design poligons and lines on the ground.
Site
The urban Gallery, Tokyo Story was a project organised by CHORA where during one week urban planners interact fir a negotiation process for urban planning.
Today I found this company which is doing something pretty similar to my mapTribe project. I am happy to see that my ideas were correct in some extent …
You can zoom around a map and interact with location based content. From WaveMarket
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