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Deepseeking the city (3/3)

Deepseeking the city (3/3)

Third of three, drawing together the learning from Shanghai’s urban environments with thinking about distributed technologies—to understand…
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Bruteforcing the city (2/3)

Bruteforcing the city (2/3)

Second of three posts reflecting on Shanghai’s convivial streets and small vehicles in which we explore the alternative, the bruteforced…
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Small Vehicles of Shanghai — DeepSeeking the city

Small Vehicles of Shanghai — DeepSeeking the city

How cheap, open, distributed and diverse systems, like the electric motor, could transform the bruteforced city and our approach to AI
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Read ‘Sideways’, by Josh O’Kane

Read ‘Sideways’, by Josh O’Kane

A short, legally-bound note on Josh O’Kane’s recent book ‘Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy’ (2022), about Sidewalk Labs
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The Battle for the Infrastructure of Everyday Life

The Battle for the Infrastructure of Everyday Life

Written for the inaugural NGV Triennal publication
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Grid, Non-Grid

Grid, Non-Grid

Distributed and decentralised urban technologies—for energy, mobility, waters, waste, building, learning, deciding—a ‘non-grid’ that sits…
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On Tesla Powerwall and network urbanism

On Tesla Powerwall and network urbanism

The skirmish between Moore’s law and physical laws
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The Incomplete City

The Incomplete City

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Shepherd, sheepdog

Shepherd, sheepdog

On people, robots and cities
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The unimaginable imagined: On geoengineering and Liam Young’s ‘Planetary Redesign’

The unimaginable imagined: On geoengineering and Liam Young’s ‘Plan...

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Two recent interviews on designing for technology and the city

Two recent interviews on designing for technology and the city

A presentation and Q&A for Urban AI, on designing for technology and the city, and a discussion about on tech, cities, public value…
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Lagom mobility

Lagom mobility

Co-opting a loose word—the Swedish concept of ‘lagom’—and redeploying it for our streets and neighbourhoods
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Landscaping connectivity

Landscaping connectivity

A recent thought on blurring streets and parks in Stockholm echoes an older thought on spatially shaping connectivity and informational…
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