Publications

Books

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Abbas, Y. and Dervin, F (eds.) (2009) Digital Technologies of the Self. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Dervin, F. and Abbas, Y. (eds.) (2009) Technologies numériques du soi et (co-) constructions identitaires. Paris: L’harmattan.

Yasmine Abbas, “Environnement néo-nomades, système écologique ?” in Fred Dervin et Aleksandra Ljalikova, Regards sur les mondes hypermobiles: Mythes et réalités (Paris, L’Harmattan: 2008); pp. 19-36. Buy the book here! Get the chapter here!

Papers

“Neo-vernacular/Non-pedigreed Architecture : Design Authorship and Expertise at the Time of Participatory Culture and Crowdsourcing” in Terzidis, K. (2009) Who Cares(?), Second International Conference on Critical Digital, Harvard Graduate School of Design; pp. 145-151

“Parasites?” (Paper presented at the “Metapolis and Urban Life” workshop, UbiComp2005 Conference, Tokyo, Japan, September 10-11, 2005) + participation to the interactive 2 day workshop. http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/UbiComp2005/

“Neo-nomads and the Nature of the Spaces of Flows” (Paper presented at the “UbiComp in the Urban Frontier” workshop, UbiComp2004 conference, Nottingham, UK, September 7, 2004) + participation to the one day workshop. http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/UbiComp2004/

“Expression of the Edge” (Paper accepted for publication, and presented at the ACSA Odysseys conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, February 22, 2002)

POP articles

As written on Bruno Latour’s website, POP articles are “Aiming at the diffusion of research“…

Posts on Building Space With Words. Thank you to Anne-Laure Fayard, Aileen Wilson, and Laura Forlano.

  1. avatars and hypertexts
  2. (dis)place
  3. why can’t we get past the Situationists?
  4. is home a spatial matter?
  5. encompassing
  6. distributed spaces

“Morceaux Choisis de Ville” in JCDecaux, Mobilités: Les Audiences dans la Ville (2008); p. 60

“TAXICITY-TOXICITY” in JCDecaux, Mobilités: la Clé des Villes (St-Amand-Montrond : Clerc, 2006) p. 98-99 + interview of William J. Mitchell on the Paris Bus Line project in collaboration with the RATP; both contribute to a prospective reflection on cities initiated by the Chronos Groupe, Observatory of Chronomobility. JCDecaux presented the BOOK OF TRENDS at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, June 2006

Theses

Neo-nomads: Designing Environments for Living in the Age of Mental, Physical and Digital Mobilities, Doctor of Design Thesis, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2006.

Embodiment: Mental and Physical Geographies of the Neo-nomad, Master of Science in Architecture Studies Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technologies, 2001.

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