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…

“The term that has come to be widely used to define and conceptualize this growing confusion and fusion of the realandimagined is hyperreality. There is an interesting relation between the prefixes of the terms hyperreality and postmodernity. Both post- and hyper-, as well as the related prefixes meta- and trans-, carry with them the notion of a movement beyond an existing state, although each takes on additional meanings with regard to this movement. Post- and Meta- connote “after” and also a significant change in location, position, condition or nature. Trans- is more stricktly “across” but can refer to a change in condition as well. Hyper- adds to this a sense of speeding up, often with the hint of excess. In the debates on the new modernity of the contemporary period, each one of this prefixes has been used (postmodernity, metamodernity, hypermodernity, transmodernity) to connote subtle variations on the same theme. Similarly, arguments can be made to use such terms as post-reality, metareality, and transreality instead of hyperreality. But like postmodernity, hyperreality has entered into popular and academic usage (and misusage) and remains the generally preferred term.”

Edward W. Soja, Postmetropolis. Critical Studies of Cities and Regions (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2000); p. 325

Science Daily. November 1, 2007. Home of the Future
Interactive Computing Experts Design New Devices For Everyday Use

“Computer scientists have found new ways to use technology to make people’s lives easier. Setting up cameras in the kitchen to record each step made in cooking helps cooks pick up where they left off if distracted. An electronic picture can use symbols to convey a wealth of information — the more stripes on the barber pole, the more traffic on the way home. A camera worn around a person’s neck can interpret gestures, transmit them to electronic devices, replacing remote controls.”

Just a quick note to let you know that Michel Maffesoli has agreed to contribute to our book. Maffesoli is the author of the well-known and much quoted Times of the Tribes.

Nouvelles technologies du soi, mobilités et (co-)constructions identitaires
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New technologies of the self, mobilities and (co-)constructions of identities

Edited by:

Fred Dervin, Senior Lecturer,
Department of French Studies, University of Turku, Finland
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Yasmine Abbas,
Doctor of Design, Harvard, USA
ReD Associates, Denmark

To be published in Autumn 2009

SYNOPSIS extraits/excerpts:

L’hypermobilité physique comme virtuelle qui touche les individus contemporains conduit à multiplier les récits et discours sur les rencontres avec les autres, mais aussi avec soi-même. Qu’ils soient issus de migrants, membres de diasporas, réfugiés, personnes en mobilité à court ou long-terme, résidents virtuels, internautes, etc., ces témoignages sont transmis à travers différents média et espaces personnels et publics: du simple coup de téléphone au site internet et à l’e-mail, ou à travers des autobiographies, des témoignages écrits et oraux, des articles de presse, des documentaires, etc. L’avènement de nouveaux espaces relationnels tels que ceux proposés par les Webs 2.0 et 3.0 (weblogs, podcasts, vidéocasts, Facebook, Second Life, Youtube…) offre la possibilité à la fois de faire partager ses expériences de mobilité au quotidien et de construire son soi face à/avec des millions d’interlocuteurs potentiels et ce, de manière multimodale. La présence de ces témoignages de mobilité, qui s’apparentent à des actes de confession, donne accès à des données intéressantes et inédites dans plusieurs langues et cela, de façon illimitée…

The new interpersonal spaces created by web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies seem to correspond to the technologies of the self that Michel Foucault (1988) has addressed in his lectures at the Collège de France at the beginning of the 1980s. These new technologies enable the individual’s self to emerge publicly and to be worked upon with its “disciples”: be they companions in Second Life, readers (for example on a blog) or listeners (Podcasts). With high speed Internet access and increasingly generous capacities of storage (mp3, USB keys, iPhone, portable computers…), the opportunities for staging the self have become unlimited…

MEDIA TREATED: blogs, forum, Life Forms, MMS, moblogging, mondes virtuels, photo et vidéo, photos et vidéos mobiles, robots de compagnie, sites Internet, téléphones portables. | Craigslist, digital artifacts, Del.ici.ous, World of Warcrafts, Facebook, Gaming, Geolocalisation, MMORPG, retail surveillance devices, SilkRoad online, Social Networking, YouTube, WWOOF, Second Life.

THEMES: Photographies en mobilité, espaces relationnels, hétérogénéité culturelle, industries culturelles, identités migratoires, identité hmong, diaspora, NOTICs (Nouveaux Objets issus des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication), infoguerre, mouvement en danse, personnage virtuel, avatars, Autre imaginaire, voyage réel et virtuel | Attachment, backpacking, collection, collective identity, participatory culture, politics, rhythm, second self, tourism, tribalism, virtual nomadism. Attachment, backpacking, collection, collective identity, participatory culture, politics, rhythm, second self, tourism, tribalism, virtual nomadism.

AUTHORS (French version)
Laurence Allard, Université de Lille 3
Biliana Vassileva Fouilhoux, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
Alain Bouldoires, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3
Stéphanie Cardoso, Université de Bordeaux
Karim Chibout, Université de Reims, IUT de Troyes, département Services et Réseaux de Communication
Chloé Delaporte, CERLIS (Centre de recherche sur les liens sociaux), Université Paris 3
Nikoleta Kerinska, Université de Paris I Panthéon - Sorbonne
Martial Martin, Université de Reims, IUT de Troyes, département Services et Réseaux de Communication
Moua May-Houa, Université Paris 8, CEMTI (Centre d’étude sur les médias, les technologies et l’internationalisation),
Erika Thomas, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 & Lille 3
Nayra Vacaflor, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux 3

AUTHORS (English version)
Abbas Yasmine, Doctor of Design, Harvard; ReD Associates (Denmark)
Binark Multu, Başkent University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio-Television and Cinema, Ankara, Turkey
Brubaker Jed R., Communication, Culture and Technology, Georgetown University, USA
Dervin Fred, University of Turku, Finland
De Vries Katja, Free University of Brussels
Günseli Bayraktutan-Sütcü, Başkent University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Public Relations Ankara, Turkey
Mauco Olivier, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Centre de Recherches Politiques de la Sorbonne (CNRS, UMR 8057), France
O’Reagan Michael, School of Service Management, University of Brighton, UK
Vaucelle Cati, MIT Media Lab, USA

Fred Dervin et Aleksandra Ljalikova, Regards sur les mondes hypermobiles: Mythes et réalités (Paris, L’Harmattan: 2008). Buy it here!

My contribution pp. 19-36: “Environnements néo-nomades, système écologique ?”

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“Chris Pacione […] cofounder of BodyMedia took a communication design course at an engineering school — Carnegie Mellon University — and fully expected to become a product designer. ‘But as soon as we started BodyMedia,’ says Pacione, ‘it became clear that our object was only one part of a bigger picture. We had to become service designers — and after that, business model designers — in order to survive.’ *

BodyMedia’s product is a hybrid of hard and soft features. What you see on Pacione’s arm is a wearable computer, with wireless capabilities. The company develops and sells wearable body monitors and software that collect, store, analyse, and display continuous and accurate physiological and lifestyle data, such as energy expenditure (calories burned), level of activity, sleep states, and other important physiological data — anytime, anywhere. A website shows wearers charts that their body’s performance to average or ideal charts, thus enabling them to see at a glance if they are getting enough exercise, sleeping too much or consuming too many calories. As well as object design — the industrial design of the object on your arm, its shape, weight, materials, engineering and so on — Pacione and his colleague had to design the appearance and organization of information on the website. They also had to design the ways people would buy the product and pay for it; they have had to adjust the company’s business model continuously. At first, they thought consumers might obtain the product free of charge and pay for a ‘wellness monitoring service,’ in much the same way as we sometimes get a satellite dish, or television set-top box, free and pay for programs through a monthly subscription. But the marketing costs of that business model were too high, so Bodymedia switched to selling the product to sportsmen, and -women as a high-tech training aid. This did not work — the unit price was too high — so now BodyMedia sells its hybrid product- service to insurance companies and health care providers in a business to business model. Says Pacione, ‘we never stop designing the object, the way it’s used, the way the information is presented, and the way people pay for it.’ * BodyMedia’s story is pragmatic of the way traditional ‘thing’ design is evolving.”

John Thackara, In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005). This book has been recommended to me by my dear friend Cati! According to her, Bill… (Mitchell) says it is a must read :)

* Chris Pacione, “BodyMedia Case Study” (keynote address at Doors of Perception 6: Lightness, Amsterdam, November 11-13, 2000)

“L’ESPACE est le charactère numéro 32 du code ASCII. On s’habitue assez facilement à l’idée qu’un espace est un charactère comme un autre: après tout, il correspond, comme les autres, à une instruction ayant des effets reconnaissables sur le papier ou à l’écran.”

Dan Sperber > Les Immatériaux, Épreuves d’écriture, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1985 in Annick Bureaud et Nathalie Magna eds., Connexions : art réseaux medias (Paris : Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, 2002); p.11

The book Mobilité et architecture co-edited by FRAC Centre and CRDP du Centre is coming out:

“À partir de sa collection unique sur l’art et l’architecture, le Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de la région Centre (FRAC Centre) lança en 2005 un projet de deux ans intitulé Mobilité et architecture à l’intention des élèves de la région Centre, du premier degré à l’enseignement supérieur. Rencontres, expositions, conférences, ateliers, ont ponctué la découverte d’une architecture contemporaine, expérimentale et prospective.

Aboutissement de ce projet, le livre rassemble les synthèses des projets pédagogiques menés sur ce thème, en regard de présentations thématiques d’œuvres d’architectes et d’artistes de la collection, offrant ainsi des clés pour une meilleure compréhension des enjeux de la mobilité en architecture. Cet ouvrage s’articule autour de trois axes : « architecture mobile », « architecture évolutive », « déplacement du corps dans l’architecture et l’espace urbain ».

Ce livre s’adresse à tous les enseignants intéressés par l’architecture et l’urbanisme avec l’ambition d’être une source d’inspiration pour de nouveaux projets. Il est accompagné d’un CD rom contenant une banque de données visuelles relative à la collection Art et Architecture du FRAC Centre ainsi que des notices sur les œuvres pour une utilisation en classe comme support de référence.”

“Cette culture numérique fondée non plus sur les Médias mais sur les Immédiats, on peut imaginer alors ce qu’elle sera à partir de ce qui apparaît déjà tendanciellement. Dans une culture de la commutation, le but de chacun n’est plus de communiquer, contrairement à tout ce qui est annoncé, de se référer, pour les partager, à des valeurs communes après en avoir acquis, conquis ou mérité, le code: territoire, culture, culte, biens, mémoire, connaissances, sciences, etc… L’important n’est plus d’émettre et de recevoir, de coder et de décoder, opération qui nous confirme dans la permanence de notre chère identité - cette fameuse identité qui n’est jamais qu’une réduction à un territoire clos et immuable, l’assignation à une résidence surveillée -, l’important n’est plus d’enregistrer et de relire, ni de nous ex-primer (de nous projeter hors de nous-mêmes) à travers ces intermédiaires de toutes sortes qui font la trame de la communication et sur lesquels est fondée la notion clé (et ses corollaires) de Représentation, tant au sens figuratif qu’au sens sociologique. Ce qui compte désormais, c’est de se commuter, de muter en semble, ou comme on le dit maintenant, se se brancher, sur le mode interactif de la conversation; ce qui compte c’est finalement non seulement de changer d’identité, à son gré, mais de multiplier ses identités, de vivre sur plusieurs plans, dans plusieurs temps, c’est de combiner les plus inattendues hybridations aussi bien avec nos machines qu’avec nos semblables.”

Médias et immédias dans Art et Communication, sous la direction de Robert Allezaud, Oziris, Paris, 1986; p. 193; dans Annick Bureaud et Nathalie Magna eds., Connexions : art réseaux medias (Paris : Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, 2002)