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A proposal to observe and engage with the city in its shifting technological and social contexts, by spending time in public and semi-private spaces, finding ways to execute digital and performative scripts, interacting with ubiquitous computing in the wild. | A proposal to observe and engage with the city in its shifting technological and social contexts, by spending time in public and semi-private spaces, finding ways to execute digital and performative scripts, interacting with ubiquitous computing in the wild. | ||
== Context == | |||
=== The right to what? === | |||
It is around us and under our foots, plenty of networks are growing and changing at the street level, from critical state run infrastructures, to lightweight parasitical on-demand networks such as electric scooters. | |||
In the contemporary city, spectacular investment-driven discourses like the one of smart city encounter the long-term material economy of housing-stock administration and real-estate interests. | |||
All of this, seem to be out-of-scale powers that determine the form of neighbourhoods and cause some of their inhabitants to move out towards the outskirts, making the city a place that is affordable to live in to a declining range of forms of life. | |||
At the micro level, though, things are still possible, housing struggles are still fought and sometimes won, networks and power dynamics can be engaged with and subverted, and, most importantly, the current lively and livable aspect of cities can be enjoyed by many different people and communities. | |||
== People == | == People == | ||
This Issue is guest edited by [[SI_24_Contributors#Martino Morandi|Martino Morandi]] with contributions by [[SI_24_Contributors#Alex_Zakkas|Alex Zakkas]], [[SI_24_Contributors#Aggeliki_Diakrousi|Aggeliki Diakrousi]], [[SI_24_Contributors#maxigas|maxigas]], [[SI_24_Contributors#Louisa_Teichmann|Louisa Teichmann]], [[SI_24_Contributors#Davide_Tidoni|Davide Tidoni]], [[SI_24_Contributors#Imane_B._K.|Imane B. K.]] | This Issue is guest edited by [[SI_24_Contributors#Martino Morandi|Martino Morandi]] with contributions by [[SI_24_Contributors#Alex_Zakkas|Alex Zakkas]], [[SI_24_Contributors#Aggeliki_Diakrousi|Aggeliki Diakrousi]], [[SI_24_Contributors#maxigas|maxigas]], [[SI_24_Contributors#Louisa_Teichmann|Louisa Teichmann]], [[SI_24_Contributors#Davide_Tidoni|Davide Tidoni]], [[SI_24_Contributors#Imane_B._K.|Imane B. K.]] | ||
Revision as of 15:58, 18 March 2024
loiter (v.)
early 15c., "idle one's time, dawdle over work;" perhaps from or akin to Middle Dutch loteren "be loose or erratic, shake, totter" like a loose tooth or a sail in a storm; in modern Dutch, leuteren "to delay, linger, loiter over one's work".
A proposal to observe and engage with the city in its shifting technological and social contexts, by spending time in public and semi-private spaces, finding ways to execute digital and performative scripts, interacting with ubiquitous computing in the wild.
Context
The right to what?
It is around us and under our foots, plenty of networks are growing and changing at the street level, from critical state run infrastructures, to lightweight parasitical on-demand networks such as electric scooters. In the contemporary city, spectacular investment-driven discourses like the one of smart city encounter the long-term material economy of housing-stock administration and real-estate interests. All of this, seem to be out-of-scale powers that determine the form of neighbourhoods and cause some of their inhabitants to move out towards the outskirts, making the city a place that is affordable to live in to a declining range of forms of life. At the micro level, though, things are still possible, housing struggles are still fought and sometimes won, networks and power dynamics can be engaged with and subverted, and, most importantly, the current lively and livable aspect of cities can be enjoyed by many different people and communities.
People
This Issue is guest edited by Martino Morandi with contributions by Alex Zakkas, Aggeliki Diakrousi, maxigas, Louisa Teichmann, Davide Tidoni, Imane B. K.
Schedule
Week 1
Monday April 8th
Week 2
Monday April 15th
Alex Zakkas is joining us.
Week 3
Monday April 22th
Week 4
☀️ May Holiday! ☀️
Week 5
Monday May 6th
Aggeliki Diakrousi is joining us.
Week 6
Monday May 13th
Davide Tidoni is joining us.
Week 7
Monday May 20th is Holiday
Week 8
Monday May 27th
maxigas is joining us.
Week 9
Monday June 3th
Week 10
Monday June 10th
Image B. K. is joining us.