Desperately Seeking Serendipity

by Ethan Zuckerman on May 12, 2011

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"Desperately Seeking Serendipity" - what can the design of cities teach us about designing serendipity in digital spaces?

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Desperately SeekingSerendipityEthan Zuckerman(@ethanz)12.5.11

in 1800, 3% of the world’s population lived in urban areas. by 1900, 14% was living in urban areas. by 2008, the majority of humanity lives in cities. data: world bank

textile market, Lagos, 2003 photo by

“A Throne for King Cholera” Punch, Winter 1852

Old Amsterdam Boursefrom a woodcut reproduced inH.F. Helmolt, “History of theWorld”

CosmopolitanismΚόσμος ΠόλιςCosmos Polis

“Diogenes, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1860

switchboard in Santa Fe, New Mexico 1921

William Gibson Neil StephensonNeuromancer (1984) Snow Crash (1992)

cities are serendipity enginescities are serendipity engines photo by Werner Kunz, CC

“Trajects pendantun an d’une jeuneﬁlle du XVIearrondissement”from “Paris etl’agglomérationparisienne”Paul-HenryChombart deLauwe, 1952

Zachary SewardFoursquare check-ins, 2010

Zachary Seward yellow pins represent check-insred blocks are majority African American

homophily photo by Cobalt123

Bill RankinChicago Boundaries

Fox Drudge BBC ABC WaPo News Visualization of US news attention Slate.com, April 2010. Data from Gentzkow and Shapiro. NYT color represents audience ideology non-US sites highlighted in yellow HuffPoUSA Today

99.9% 93.9% 98.0% 93.6% 99.1% 98.7% 95.4% 97.0% 98.0% 98.8%Percent of news page views from domestic sites, Google Ad

Tunisian protesters with a Mohamed Bouazizi banner (AFP)

curation search social

Jane JacobsRobert Moses

photo by wili_hybrid, CC

desirepaths photo by keeshu

photo by Cobalt123

Pico Deli Pico Deli

curated wanderingBlack Heritage Trail Boston, MA

wandering throughgameplay

reshufflin gstructure s

how do we design real spaces toencourage serendipitous encounter?what lessons about serendipity can we learn from cities and apply virtually? how can we virtually annotate thephysical world without isolating and limiting ourselves?

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