The Architectural League of New York
Request For Qualifications

Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City
An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between
ubiquitous/pervasive computing and urban architecture

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 27, 2008

The Architectural League of New York invites architects, artists,
designers, technologists, engineers, urbanists, or teams thereof, to
submit qualifications for an exhibition that will critically explore
the evolving relationship between ubiquitous/pervasive computing and
urban architecture. The League will commission five to seven teams to
develop urban interventions–to be installed in and around New York
City in spring 2009–that will imagine alternative trajectories for
how various mobile, embedded, networked, and distributed forms of
media, information and communication systems might inform the
architecture of urban space and/or influence our behavior within it.
Commissioned projects will receive support ranging from $5,000 to
$25,000.

The exhibition continues the League’s commitment to supporting
original research into the implications of ubiquitous/pervasive
computing for architecture and urbanism. In fall 2006, the League,
along with the Center for Virtual Architecture and the Institute for
Distributed Creativity [iDC], presented “Architecture and Situated
Technologies,” a 3-day symposium organized by Omar Khan, Trebor
Scholz, and Mark Shepard, that brought together researchers and
practitioners from art, architecture, technology and sociology to
explore the emerging role of Situated Technologies in the design and
inhabitation of the contemporary city. The project continued in
winter 2007 with the publication “Urban Computing and Its
Discontents,” the first of nine pamphlets to be published over the
next three years that explores how our experience of the city and the
choices we make in it are affected by mobile communications,
pervasive media, ambient informatics and other Situated Technologies.

Selection Panel (In formation)
Amanda McDonald Crowley, Executive Director, Eyebeam
Rosalie Genevro, Executive Director, The Architectural League of New
York
Omar Khan, Co-Editor, Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series
Laura Kurgan, Director, Spatial Information Design Lab
Gregg Pasquarelli, Partner, SHoP Architects
Trebor Scholz, Co-Editor, Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series
Mark Shepard, Co-Editor, Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series
Gregory Wessner, Exhibitions Director, The Architectural League of
New York

For more information, go to www.situatedtechnologies.net.