Susan Piedmont-Palladino, curator, National Building Museum is on stage now talking about the history of urban technologies.

Keynote Conversation: What Makes an Intelligent City?
Representatives from the Administration, technological innovators, and philanthropic leaders discuss our national priorities for creating today’s intelligent cities and explore how data and information technology can help create more sustainable communities.

  • Anne K. Altman, general manager, Global Public Sector, IBM Corporation
  • Dr. Xavier de Souza Briggs, associate director for General Government Programs, Office of Management and Budget, the White House
  • Michelle Moore, Federal Environmental Executive, the White House
  • Susan Piedmont-Palladino, curator, National Building Museum
  • Judith Rodin, president, Rockefeller Foundation  
  • Richard Stengel, managing editor, TIME (moderator)

A bight and early introduction to the #iCities program from @Corbett3000

If you had just 24 hours to impact your city, what would you do? As a creative experiment in temporary urbanism and digital innovation, the 24-Hour City Project explores the intersection of data, arts, and technology within the built environment. The project aims to demonstrate how technology, imagination, and innovation can envision our future cities. On June 5, the 24-Hour City Project will launch a beta competition within the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. Three interdisciplinary teams will put together temporary physical and digital exhibitions to see who can most effectively visualize the intersection of data, arts, and technology with the built environment. Through these experiments, teams are encouraged to make the built environment more engaging, relevant to our lives, and accessible to all. Teams will be judged on their creativity, relevancy to the general public, interdisciplinary approach, and ability to be replicated elsewhere. Delegates to the National Building Museum’s Intelligent Cities forum will server as judges, but we are also looking for YOUR vote for the experiment that you think makes our communities more intelligent.  All projects will be built on-site beginning Sunday, June 5 and remain on display through the Intelligent Cities Forum on Monday, June 6, 2011.
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If you had just 24 hours to impact your city, what would you do?

As a creative experiment in temporary urbanism and digital innovation, the 24-Hour City Project explores the intersection of data, arts, and technology within the built environment. The project aims to demonstrate how technology, imagination, and innovation can envision our future cities.

On June 5, the 24-Hour City Project will launch a beta competition within the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. Three interdisciplinary teams will put together temporary physical and digital exhibitions to see who can most effectively visualize the intersection of data, arts, and technology with the built environment. Through these experiments, teams are encouraged to make the built environment more engaging, relevant to our lives, and accessible to all.

Teams will be judged on their creativity, relevancy to the general public, interdisciplinary approach, and ability to be replicated elsewhere. Delegates to the National Building Museum’s Intelligent Cities forum will server as judges, but we are also looking for YOUR vote for the experiment that you think makes our communities more intelligent. 

All projects will be built on-site beginning Sunday, June 5 and remain on display through the Intelligent Cities Forum on Monday, June 6, 2011.

OpenStreetBlock turns lat/lon into city block description

OpenStreetBlock is a web service for turning a given lat/lon coordinate (e.g. 40.737813,-73.997887) into a textual description of the actual city block to which the coordinate points (e.g. “West 14th Street bet. 6th Ave. & 7th Ave”) using OpenStreetMap data.

There are likely many applications for such a service. It should be quite useful any time you might need to succinctly describe a given location without using a map.

GPS enabled music

The first GPS encoded music album from the DC Based group Bluebrain will launch soon and will focus on the National Mall. Music changes as the listner moves from one monument to another. The group is working on future albums to explore Brooklyn’s Prospect Park & California’s historic Route 1 up the coast. This should be available for a free download on the Apple app store soon.  Pretty cool.  Here is a link to a story about it in CityPaper. - Scott Kratz

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/03/25/bluebrain-theres-an-app-for-that/

OpenStreetBlock turns lat/lon into city block description

OpenStreetBlock is a web service for turning a given lat/lon coordinate (e.g. 40.737813,-73.997887) into a textual description of the actual city block to which the coordinate points (e.g. “West 14th Street bet. 6th Ave. & 7thAve”) using OpenStreetMap data.

There are likely many applications for such a service. It should be quite useful any time you might need to succinctly describe a given location without using a map.

http://transit.frumin.net/openstreetblock/

Sapporo World Window

Sapporo World Window is an interactive screen-based application that allows people to share their creativity and knowledge about places around Sapporo. The large screens in the passage bring together people’s creative outputs including videos, images, and comments about places Sapporo from various social media services such as YouTube, Flickr, Foursquare, and Twitter. By using QR Codes, pedestrians can easily find out more about the places shown on the screens, including what it is, how to get there, and what others have said about the places, as well as expressing their own thoughts about it. In turn, Sapporo World Window helps people to turn the passageway into a lively social place, a “point of connection” that is thriving on and inspires people’s sharing of creativity with the locals and visitors alike.

Urban Infomatics

Tech for Transit: Designing a Future System

In November 2010, Latitude Research and Next American City launched a study to investigate how new technologies and information access can improve transit and other life experiences. Specifically, the study sought to uncover how cities, transportation providers and technology companies can work together to develop these information-based solutions and, ultimately, encourage adoption of more sustainable transit.

A 3-part discussion of study findings will be published at www.latd.com over the next few weeks (first installment already available), and the PDF report can be accessed directly at http://latd.tv/Transit/Tech-For-Transit-Summary.pdf

Mapping Main Street is a project funded by public media to tell “radio stories” in a new way.  While the core of the project was a content team that traveled over 14,000 miles documenting main streets across the country.  They then built an open platform that allowed others to tell the story of their hometown Main Streets.  This has resulted in hundreds of photojournalists, writers and artists using the platform to represent their community on a broad national platform.
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Mapping Main Street is a project funded by public media to tell “radio stories” in a new way.  While the core of the project was a content team that traveled over 14,000 miles documenting main streets across the country.  They then built an open platform that allowed others to tell the story of their hometown Main Streets.  This has resulted in hundreds of photojournalists, writers and artists using the platform to represent their community on a broad national platform.

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