Just received a copy of the book of trends of JCDecaux for which I wrote an article: Morceaux choisis de ville (P. 60). Thank you B. Marzloff for the invitation! Among all the great contributions, find these of Nicolas, Bruno and Adam.

Also, an exciting news, the 17 of June 2008, Ci’Num will show the output of 3 years of work at Bilbao (Présentation des travaux de Ci’Num et débat “Les Civilisations numériques : maîtriser leurs défis !” au musée Guggenheim de Bilbao). I was an invited expert of Ci’Num 2005 and 2007. So was Edith in 2007! Thank you Daniel Kaplan for this… and of course the AEC team.

By the way… here is AEC’s latest letter of information #14 with a good overview of audio guides for e-tourism…

Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe
on view at the Withney June 26, 2008-September 21, 2008

“R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of the great American visionaries of the 20th century. Best-known as the inventor of the geodesic dome, Fuller devoted much of his life to resolving the gap between the sciences and the humanities, which he believed was preventing society from taking a comprehensive view of the world. His theories and innovations traversed the worlds of architecture, visual art, literature, mathematics, molecular biology, and environmental science and have had a deep impact on all of those fields.”

Very promising exhibit at the MOMA, NYC: Design and the elastic mind!

It happens in Yokohama. Dislocate 2008

More information on networked experience:

“Dislocate questions our notions of place and location in the face of perpetual motion through multifaceted environments. The velocity of this passage is accelerated through new technologies, but as a result how does this impact upon our encounter with place and our attempt to communicate this to elsewhere? Through an exhibition, symposium and workshop series Dislocate will examine this encounter and communication, taking a journey through surrounding spaces and exploring our transient connections.”

Conference in Rotterdam: The Mobile City. 27-28 February, 2008

The Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference 2008 (EPIC2008) will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark 16 - 19 October.

Submission deadlines will be:

April 18 for extended Paper abstracts
May 19 for Workshop proposals
August 1 for Artifact submissions

The call for papers and initial program plan will be announced shortly. The organizers: Melissa Cefkin (Co-Chair, IBM Research) and Martha Cotton (Co-Chair, Herbst LaZar Bell, Inc.)

New age politics. Obama Mobile. You can sign up to receive text messages and “expect periodic updates from the campaign as well as advance notice about local Obama events and important updates about Barack’s public appearances. We value your privacy and will not share your information outside the campaign.”

Barack Obama is currently living on a bus, giving about 6 speeches a day… Here you will find his stance on technology and innovation for a new generation.

“Barack Obama is already using technology to transform presidential politics and to help unprecedented numbers of citizens take back the political process. Obama’s Internet campaign is only the beginning of how Obama would harness the power of the Internet to transform government and politics. On barackobama.com, voters have connected not only with the campaign but with each other; the campaign has used technology to engage those who have not been able to participate in prior presidential campaigns. More than 280,000 people have created accounts on barackobama.com. These users have organically created over 6,500 grassroots volunteer groups and have organized more than 13,000 off-line events using the site.”

Fred Dervin has invited me co-edit a book: New technologies of the self,
mobilities and (co-)construction of identity. We would like to invite you
to submit abstracts. And please forward the call for publication.

I had a fascinating conversation with JB after his thesis defense yesterday evening; thanks to Oren, colleague at ReD Associates.

As JB writes about his research:

“Biojects is a concept i coined to specify a certain class of objects that follow biological rules and share similar structures in their behavior and constitution with organisms. A specific class of biojects is composed by immaterial instances such as concepts or ideas. They exist as phenomena but are difficult to observe per se (for more information on existent object vs non-existent objects see Zalta and Meinong).”

I thought that this comment on my old blog was worth sharing with you, for that there is a new blog with data on neo-nomads to feed from. Take a look. The project promises to be cool:

Dear Yasmine Abbas

I tried to find your e-mail address but couldn’t find it, so I try to reach you this way. I m a master student of the Architecture faculty on the TU Delft and at the moment doing a graduation projects on the theme of DigiNomads. Who are people travelling around the world while at the same time executing a job using new communication technologies to keep in touch with the rest of the world. The architectural question I have in this regard is:When living in the global city, what are the implications of living on the edge of global and local identities, for the city networks inside the public realm and the architectural typology of the office and the home?

At the moment I m looking for people that feel a little bit or a lot like the person I described as being a DigiNomad. I would like to ask if you maybe know a way to get in contact with anybody like this or if you could get me in contact with anybody who can tell my about his experiences and in this way help me defining my design constraints better.

For making it possible for all my teachers to follow all the things I m doing I created a blog (http://diginomad.blogspot.com ). And of course for everyone that wants to see what I m doing. Although I m already busy with this project for half a year I only decided to use a blog this past weekend. For now it is still rather empty but I will fill it up from now on and soon it will be not only a communication tool but also a resource bank. I have a weekly poll on my blog, so if you like, feel free to vote, that makes me very happy. The more people vote the better I can from my ideas, so I need people to visit my blog :)

I hope you can help my somehow…

And of course spread the word, you never know where the digital highway will bring you.
Best regards,

Janine Toussaint

tmdenouden@planet.nl

DigiNomad, The Perfect Travel? http://diginomad.blogspot.com