DCRC - Digital Cultures Research Centre

The Digital Cultures Research Centre have teamed up with Festival of Ideas to invite internationally recognized writer, urbanist and design consultant, Adam Greenfield to speak at the Watershed on Monday 9th of May at 6pm. There are tickets available but they're running out fast - so book now!

In light of the recent foundation of his New York City-based practice Urbanscale, Adam 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."

The talk will explore how the capacities of these "new urban actors" call established expectations and ideals for participation in urban life into questions, and conclude by asking how we may need to re-think who or what is responsible for the performance and maintenance of civic activity.

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. 

This talk fits in with our broader interrogation of Connected Communities and is presented alongside Adam's Systems/Layers Walkshops here in Bristol and in London (with Central St Martins).