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Wireless London: Future Urban Infrastructures #2: Semantic City
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The second in a series of three lectures at the Architectural
Association.
Talk: Tuesday 15th Feb, 2005, 6:30pm-8.00pm
Title: Semantic City
Speakers: John Bell & Jo Walsh (see below for bios)
Location:
Architectural Association
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES
0207 887 4000
http://www.aaschool.ac.uk
To be followed by an open show and tell session: 8.00pm -9.30pm,
AA Restaurant. (see details below)
All talks are free, but places are limited. Please arrive early to avoid
disappointment.
This month's theme: Semantic City
London's infrastructures transfer electricity, water, goods, people,
money, sewage and information. Underneath the visible
environment of bricks, glass and steel, these infrastructures
determine how the city is used and imagined, and how the character
of its different localities emerges. Whereas many of these services
are provided by governmental or commercial interests, information
is often transmitted by peer networks: Speakers Corner, tags
and graffiti on the underground, stickers on every remaining
smooth-surfaced lamppost, and free wireless networks. This
month's theme addresses how information moves through the city,
how it can create new interpretations and feed back into
restructuring the physical environment.
Biographies of this month's Speakers
Jo Walsh
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jo walsh is a free software hacker, author and gonzo cartographer
based in London. In the past she has built web systems for the
Guardian, the ICA and state51. Currently she is trying to assemble
her interests in bots, the semantic web, spatial information
and public transport planning into something resembling
coherence.
John Bell
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After posts at The University of Westminster, The University of East
London, Kingston University and Arts Council England, joined
the AA in 2000. Has lectured widely. Visiting professor Auckland
University NZ 2003. Partner in transdisciplinary practice fxv.org.
Special interest in new technologies for design and production. Unit
Master Diploma Unit 9, Academic Advisor to the Diploma School
2003 to date. www.fxv.org
Open Show & Tell Sessions:
This month, featuring:
– Alexei Blinov of Raylab.com – Hive Networks demonstration.
– the EVNT project: Timo Arnall, Matt Webb & Jack Shultze
– a demonstration of the wireless london node database –
programmed by Jo Walsh w. Earle Martin from openguides.org
Each Wireless London talk event will run between 6.30 and 8.00pm
with speakers and discussion, immediately followed by an open
'show and tell' session at the AA from 8.00 to 9.30.
The 'show and tell' sessions are informal and open for anyone
to bring along and showcase projects. finished or work in progress,
that are relevant to this field. These sessions are an opportunity
for practitioners, students and professionals involved in free
networks, arts, wireless technologies, architecture, urbanism,
education, communications policy and local government, to meet
and discuss current and future projects.
If you would like to come and showcase your work, please
let us know by emailing -> [log in to unmask], or just come
along (with your own equipment) on the day.
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