Situated Technologies Pamphlets: Series Launch and Panel Discussion

Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series
publication launch and panel discussion

http://www.situatedtechnologies.net

Friday, December 14, 2007
7:00 p.m.
The Urban Center
457 Madison Avenue
New York City

A reception and panel discussion celebrating the launch of the
Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series. Adam Greenfield and Mark
Shepard, co-authors of Situated Technologies Pamphlet 1: Urban
Computing and Its Discontents, together with Eric Paulos of Intel
Research, will consider the opportunities and dilemmas of ubiquitous
computing for urban life in this panel discussion launching the series.

The Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series emerged out of a three-day
symposium presented by The Center for Virtual Architecture, the
Institute for Distributed Creativity [iDC] and the Architectural
League of New York in October 2006. Published by the League and co-
edited by Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz and Mark Shepard, the series
explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture
and urbanism: How are our experiences of the city and the choices we
make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media,
ambient informatics, and other 'situated