Apresentação na Convenção Anual da Media Ecology Association na Ryeson University em Toronto/ON, Canadá, junho de 2014.

1. Syntropic Cities
Macello Medeiros, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Federal University of Reconcavo fo Bahia
CECULT – Bahia / Brazil
15th Annual Convention of The
Media Ecology Association
June 19- 22, 2014
Ryerson University – Toronto / CA

4. Critical Events
In Physics terms, events are occurrences and
phenomena that arise in a particular time and space.
As previously mentioned, when the flow in these
events undergoes retention, the result are some
critical situations such as traffic jams and landslides.

6. City
and
Information

7. Information Theory
A model of information
transmission, created by
Claude Shannon, in which
data could be transmitted
from a sender to a
receiver, point to point,
with as little loss as
possible.

8. Entropy
In the Information Theory is how to measure the
amount of disorder of data that generate uncertainty
and disruption in the communication system: "From
our previous discussion of entropy as a measure of
uncertainty it seems reasonable to use the conditional
entropy of the message, knowing the received signal,
as a measure of this missing information "(Shannon,
1948, p. 20).

9. Syntropy
Negative entropy (also known as negentropy), able to
take the entropy to zero from negative values
embedded in the system: "The entropy of a
continuous distribution can be negative. The scale of
measurements sets an arbitrary zero corresponding
to the uniform distribution over the unit volume. The
distribution which is more bold than this has less
entropy and will be negative "(ibid., p. 38).

10. Maxwell's Demon

12. Urban Instructional
Information
Some characteristics capable of translate the
relationship between the data obtained in the
environment (context), for example, through a
network of sensors of different capacities (RFID tags,
WiFi antennas, surveillance cameras, bluetooth areas,
etc.), generating this kind of information.

13. POE
The instructional or biotic information is presented on
the concept of POE (Propagation Organization: An
Enquiry) authored by Robert Logan, Stuart Kauffman,
Robert Este, Randy Goebel, David and Ilya
Shmulevich Hobil, being responsible for its
organization and propagation of living organisms with
based on the meanings generated by the environment
in which this system is biotic, in addition also of other
elements.

14. Syntropic Agents
Syntropic agents are tools capable of collecting and
processing data on the environment and, through an
autocatalytic process, produce urban instructional
information.

15. Waze App

16. Wheelmap
http://wheelmap.org/en/

17. Thank You!
macellomedeiros@gmail.com
medeiros@ufrb.edu.br