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You are invited to... Wireless London: Future Urban Infrastructures #2: Semantic City ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.