Stephen Graham - Sentient Cities

Sentient Cities: Ambient intelligence and the politics of urban space Steve Graham and Mike Crang Department of Geography University of Durham

Towards “Enacted Environments”: (Cuff, 2003) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

3 KEY STARTING POINTS ONE: Best understood not as a real/virtual binary of ‘real city’ & ‘virtual cyberspace.’ Rather, simply the latest process in long history of urban ‘ remediation’ ,[object Object],[object Object]

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THREE: Paradoxically, ambient, ubiquitous or locative media, like all new technological systems, tend to become hidden and ‘disappear’ at precisely the moment that they become most important: ,[object Object],[object Object]

Socially ‘Black boxed’ to become the ‘engineer’s stuff’: ‘Infrastructure’ ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Multiple, Simultaneous, Trajectories ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

1. Consumerisation; ‘Friction-Free’ Capitalism? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

RFIDs: Smooth Flow, Just in Time Management, Ubiquitous Tracking

E.g. “Advanced User Resource Annotation “ ,[object Object],[object Object]

‘ Software-Sorting’ techniques often used to ‘unbundle’ and recommodify public urban infrastructure into neoliberal mobility marketplaces

Road Pricing: Unbundling Public Roadspace Monopolies:

The Internet: ‘Squelching the Scavenger Class’ ,[object Object]

Call Centres: The Politics of Speed-Up and Slow-Down ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

“ The public sphere malled”? Kang and Cuff ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Code Place: Software-Sorted Cities ,[object Object]

II Securitisation and Militarisation: Towards Passage-Point Urbanism?

Targeting ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Code Space: Software-Sorted Mobilities

Code Face: Toward Software-Sorted Streets?

Surveillance Creep: Embedded Systems Become Securitised

The ‘New Manhattan Project’: Surveillance Systems for ‘Unconventional War Targets’ ,[object Object]

DARPA’s Combat Zones That See: Persistent Urban Surveillance ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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III Art and Activism: Reenchanting, Reanimating, Repoliticising the City? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Locative Media and the ‘Viscosity’ of Space ,[object Object]

Hyperlinking the City e.g. Grafedia ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Digital Collective Memory e.g. 34N118W:

Revealing Bodily Mobilities e.g. Urban Tapestries ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Opening out authorial empowerment e.g. Yellow Arrow Guerrilla Mapping, Innsbruck ,[object Object],[object Object]

Participatory urban visualisations: e.g. Christian Nold’s Greenwich emotion map: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Opening Out City as Gamespace e.g. Asphalt Games

‘ Relational Architecture’: Rafael Lozano Hemmer

Urban Screens: Making Things Public

Contesting Urban Data Politics e.g. Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles (NKLA)

Conclusions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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