For the last 8 months i have been working with Ben Cerveny and Juha van ‘t Zelfde together under the name: VURB. Our mission is to explore and research cities, and more specifically, urban computation and related systems. If you can’t quite stomach this wordy description then perhaps i could rephrase it as ‘it’s about how cities are are becoming more like networked computers and the Internet’. Follow us, whether it’s via Twitter or come to our monthly face to face gathering called Visibile Cities, which takes place in Amsterdam.
Urbanode just got funded by Digital Pioniers. Urbanode is research into responsive environments or interactive spaces. It’s a natural progression from the Roomware Project, which initially explored how we could make spaces more interactive and connect peoples online lives with their offline presence. That was 4 years ago. Urbanode is instantly familiar in approaching space by making it accessible via control points and a reusable open source framework (this time with a dedicated mobile component).
You can read more about the project on the VURB site. We’re currently in a research phase which involves mapping out systems, assessing technologies, doing a survey on the lay of the land. It’s also great to hear that Meeus and Bob, who are in charge of lighting for events at Club Trouw, are very much up for it!
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