Comments on: Augmentia http://blog.makerlab.org/2009/11/augmentia/ Go on, be curious Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:06:40 -0800 hourly 1 By: Brain Off » Holidays, in Snow and in Kibera :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet http://blog.makerlab.org/2009/11/augmentia/comment-page-1/#comment-1419 Brain Off » Holidays, in Snow and in Kibera :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:06:40 +0000 http://blog.makerlab.org/?p=821#comment-1419 [...] and how to peacefully live together. Even the design challenges tomorrow’s technologies, augmented reality, have everything to learn from how space is negotiated in off the grid, on the edge places. Kibera [...] [...] and how to peacefully live together. Even the design challenges tomorrow’s technologies, augmented reality, have everything to learn from how space is negotiated in off the grid, on the edge places. Kibera [...]

]]> By: Mikel Maron http://blog.makerlab.org/2009/11/augmentia/comment-page-1/#comment-1418 Mikel Maron Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:15:35 +0000 http://blog.makerlab.org/?p=821#comment-1418 There's a third pole of experience to compare to the heavily mediated urban/suburban artifice and the raw dirty hiking ecological uncontrolled beingness ... the unmediated, out of control, intensely human, constantly directly negotiated urbanization of much of the planet. Kibera or Ramallah or Mumbai are intensely exhilarating, reawakening senses dulled by pre-negotiated spaces of architecture and laws, and frustrating to the extreme that no artifact exists anywhere, and attempts to pull out to a wider perspective are dragged down by the immediate needs of security and any food at all, local and organic or manufactured, it makes no difference. Pressure at the edges and margins indeed. The experience of these places, my intuition tells me, is going to be extremely informative for the design of augmented reality, and a design challenge in itself. There’s a third pole of experience to compare to the heavily mediated urban/suburban artifice and the raw dirty hiking ecological uncontrolled beingness … the unmediated, out of control, intensely human, constantly directly negotiated urbanization of much of the planet. Kibera or Ramallah or Mumbai are intensely exhilarating, reawakening senses dulled by pre-negotiated spaces of architecture and laws, and frustrating to the extreme that no artifact exists anywhere, and attempts to pull out to a wider perspective are dragged down by the immediate needs of security and any food at all, local and organic or manufactured, it makes no difference. Pressure at the edges and margins indeed.

The experience of these places, my intuition tells me, is going to be extremely informative for the design of augmented reality, and a design challenge in itself.

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]]> By: links for 2009-11-04 « Blarney Fellow http://blog.makerlab.org/2009/11/augmentia/comment-page-1/#comment-1061 links for 2009-11-04 « Blarney Fellow Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:32:05 +0000 http://blog.makerlab.org/?p=821#comment-1061 [...] MakerLab Blog » Augmentia (tags: augmented-reality viapssteam) [...] [...] MakerLab Blog » Augmentia (tags: augmented-reality viapssteam) [...]

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