Urban Culture as Interface Culture

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Urban Culture as Interface Culture. From BLVD-Urbanism to MSN-Urbanism Martijn de Waal University of Groningen / University of Amsterdam Research project: ‘New Media and Urban Culture’ www.martijndewaal.nl / www.themobilecity.nl
Overview 1. What is Urban Culture? ★People’s Park Complex, Chinatown Singapore ★Towards a more general theory of urban culture: BLVD-Urbanism 2. New Media and Urban Culture: ★Towards MSN-Urbanism? Iphone Urbanism, Long Tail Urbanism, Google Earth Urbanism, Ebay Urbanism
\"But we theorised, and you people are getting it built!\" (Maki)
Maki: (1) Coexistence and conﬂict of amazingly hetereogeneous institutions and individuals. (2) Unprecedented rapid and extensive transformation in the physical structure of society ...

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I presented a paper at the <a href=\"http://www.isea2008singapore.org\">International Symposium for Electronic Arts</a> in Singapore. I addressed the themes listed in the abstract below by making an analysis of the People\'s Park Complex, a building build according to metabolist architectural theory, in Singapore\'s Chinatown.

In this paper/talk I would like to address the concept of locative media from the perspective of urban culture. My main questions is: how does the emergence of locative media change our understanding of urban culture, and the related concepts of \'dwelling\' and \'public space\'? With locative media I refer to both artistic locative works that address issues of locality, identity and public sphere and the appropriation of new - often commercial - locative services by consumers/citizens in the practice of daily life.

Urban culture can be understood as the philosophical idea of the city as an \'organization of differences\'. Starting with the Chicago and German School, urbanists have pointed out that the modern city brings together (or according to some - produces) diverse groups of people with diverse backgrounds and different identities, lifestyles and goals. Two concepts play an important part in this definition of urban culture: \'dwelling\' and \'public space\'. \'Dwelling\' is the process of \'making or feeling oneself at home\', the process in which local structures are appropriated or exerted to express or strengthen one\'s (group) identity. The public sphere is the place and process of confrontation and exchange, of clashes, innovation, political organization and cultural development.

If locative media offer the possibility to establish new types of mediated geospatial experiences (Bleecker), producing new spatial practices and new interfaces to appropriate space, how then should we re-theorize the concepts of dwelling, public space and urban culture? What part do locative interfaces play in the experience of a localized urban culture? Theories range from optimistic ones (Rheingold\'s smart mobs-scenario in which thanks to the mobile phone, location technology and social networks, nobody has to bowl alone anymore) to overtly critical ones, in which \'software sorted cities\' (Graham) extend current trends of privatization, parochialization and exclusion and disciplinization. less