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

Facebook Urban Hackathon



From Co.Design:

Hoping to Win Over a Town, Facebook Wants to Scrap Its Fortress Vibe

Facebook is moving from tony Palo Alto to blue-collar Belle Haven, and they want to woo residents with community-oriented design.

Some social networks still function better in the flesh, and so, on Saturday, Facebook played host to a massive “design charrette” that brought four bus loads of architects, designers and urban planners together for an all-day cram session devoted to re-imagining Menlo Park’s Belle Haven community, soon-to-be home of the company’s global headquarters.

Intelligent Cities / National Building Museum

Who: National Building Museum, Time Magazine, IBM, Rockefeller Foundation

What: For as long as we have lived in cities we have reflected on their form, feel, and function. From the launch of the first hot air balloon to the creation of geospatial information software, we have developed technologies that enable us to assess what we have done, what we are doing, and what we wish to do. Today, the scale and complexity of neighborhoods, towns, and cities are unprecedented, and so are our tools for understanding them. Intelligent Cities, an initiative of the National Building Museum, supported by its partners TIME and IBM and funded by The Rockefeller Foundation, explores the intersection of information technology and urban design to understand where we are, where we want to be, and how to get there.

Where:

When: 2010 -

Tools:

Snap-Shot-City

Big - Snap-Shot-City 2007

Who: Bonnie Shaw

What: Snap-Shot-City is a simultaneous world wide photographic treasure hunt.

It aims to bring people together on-the-ground and on-line, to celebrate the cities in which we live. It challenges people to open their eyes to the extraordinary; everyday; everywhere, by challenging them to become artists for a day and to create simultaneous fun for our extended social networks all over the world.

We had players set up local events anywhere in the world, and then sign up teams of 5 players. At 2pm local time all around the world, we would hand out lists of categories like “Odd One Out”, “Up Up and Away”, “Time Travel” and “Wrong Side of the Tracks”.

Teams would have 5 hours to explore their city, translate those themes into photographs, upload, map and caption them with a story, and then return to the venue for a giant party that we would like with photos as they came in from around the world.

Where: Global

When: 2006 - 2009

Tools: Crowd Sourced, Games, Storytelling, Mapping, Mobile, Facebook, Web, Social Media

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