Adam Greenfield asks whether architecture is organized to "think holistically about the urban milieu" anymore, particularly as our lives are increasingly saturated with ubicomp. Thoughts?
Adam Greenfield asks whether architecture is organized to "think holistically about the urban milieu" anymore, particularly as our lives are increasingly saturated with ubicomp. Thoughts?
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I recently ranted on TC about the elementary school event I organized. I had the space perfectly composed: decorated for atmosphere, rigged for safety, stocked with snacks for fuel, and populated with a presenter and, thanks to clever marketing, a bountiful audience. It was designed to perfection.
Then the occupants of the city - the student audience - went crazy and made their own unplanned use of the space, and the whole thing was a disaster.
Thinking holistically about the urban milieu is, to so many of us, just too damn daunting. Then again, I love, and love that Ed Bacon loved, how skateboarders took over Love Park.
Interesting point .... one of my Urban Planning profs remarked to me (quite seriously) that the profession's greatest challenge was when to tell the public "no".
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