Tuesday, March 24, 2009

readings: on soft infrastructure and streets

Two pieces on Cityofsound

A presentation on soft infrastructure at the Lift 09 conference. 

The street as platform - a brilliant essay on streets and technology.

The way the street feels may soon be defined by what cannot be seen with the naked eye.

Imagine film of a normal street right now, a relatively busy crossroads at 9AM taken from a vantage point high above the street, looking down at an angle as if from a CCTV camera. We can see several buildings, a dozen cars, and quite a few people, pavements dotted with street furniture.

Freeze the frame, and scrub the film backwards and forwards a little, observing the physical activity on the street. But what can’t we see? 

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