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Terms and conditions applyEdition Bauhaus Vol. 14 Dot.City - Relational Urbanism and New Media
Torsten Blume and Gregor Langenbrinck
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Format: Book
Pages: 191
Publisher: Jovis Verlag
Date Published: Jan 2005
Stock Code: 37437
ISBN: 9783936314946
Binding: Paperback
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Cell phones, automatic teller machines, and the Internet have become part of our daily lives, an indistinguishable part of our everyday activities. Life does not seem to have been fundamentally changed by these hi-tech, information-giving tools of convenience; Or has it? Have we, unawares, become accustomed to a new way of living? And how can designers make creative use of these new digital possibilities?
This publication of the Fourth International Bauhaus Kolleg, a year long thematic graduate session run by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, offers strategies for employing digital media to integrate the unpredictable and the unplanned into urban existence. Dot.City asks and seeks to answer many questions: Can the use of information and communication technology counteract the continuous processes of devaluation, the loss of urban identity and the lack of multifunctional networks? Can the activation and implementation of new social techniques of knowledge production compensate for missing economical impulses and functions? How do such processes generate new species of urban values? Is it possible to re-program local social resources using intelligent network technologies? What do urban action areas designed for this purpose look like? And how can urban information spheres and physical urban spaces penetrate each other?
Edited by Torsten Blume and Gregor Langenbrink, this book is ideal for anyone interested in the future of technology and its effect on urbanism.
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