May09

Adam Greenfield is the author of Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, former head of design direction for service and user-interface design at Nokia, and now runs his New York City-based practice Urbanscale.

Greenfield will talk about urban experience design, addressing the growing range of connected objects in the urban landscape, from CCTV cameras, sensor-equipped bus stops and networked bollards to Tower Bridge and its Twitter account.

He will consider what life among these connected things implies for civic responsibility and ‘the right to the city’, explores how the capacities of these ‘new urban actors’ call established expectations and ideals for participation in urban life into question, and concludes by asking how we may need to re-think who or what is responsible for the performance and maintenance of civic activity.

A Festival of Ideas Event in association with Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE Bristol and the Pervasive Media Studio.

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