THE RESPONSIVE CITY: a four-part series
The Responsive City speaker series explores the diverse ways that digital media and telecommunications technologies are expanding possibilities for research, design and practice within the field of urban studies and planning. The work presented in this series either intervenes or investigates the interface between people, technologies and the city. Our assertion is that the digital revolution is changing the way we live today as radically as the Industrial Revolution did almost two centuries ago. As such, the speakers and panelists in the Responsive City series propose various ways to investigate and anticipate these changes and their implications at the urban scale: ranging from waste disposal to historic preservation to building social capital through real estate development. This work draws on diverse fields such as urban planning, architecture, design, management, engineering, computer science and social science to capture the multi-disciplinary nature of urban problems. |