Sense and the City. Towards a New Digital Common

Sense and the City. Towards a New Digital Common - urbanNext, July 31, 2019. - 3484 words.

Actar, Carlo Ratti, Daniele Belleri, Essay, expanding design practices, Imminent Urban Commons, No Density, SENSEable City Lab, Senseable Technologies, Technology and fabrication

Architect’s role, Bigdata, Data, Data as mediation, Dataviz & simulation, Digital technologies, Emergent technologies, Environmental technologies, Essay, Future Commoning Cities, Global Awareness, Imminent Commons, New technologies, Planetary urbanizations, Responsive Environment, Responsive technologies, Sensing, Sensors, Seoul Biennale 2017, Technology, Urban Paradigms


The world today is awash with data. In 2016 alone, people produced as much information as was created in all of human history. Every time we send a message, make a call, or complete a transaction, we leave digital traces behind. We are quickly approaching the creation of what Italian writer Italo Calvino omnisciently called the “memory of the world”: a complete digital copy of our physical universe.





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