Jun 12, 2009 0
Video of Spain Science Parks Talk (May 2009)
A video of my talk on the future of science parks forecast on May 8 in Spain has just been posted to the site of ESPAITEC, the science park in Castellon where the event took place.
Jun 12, 2009 0
Video of My Talk at IASP 2009
The Research Triangle Foundation has posted video of my presentation of our forecast on the future of science parks and technology regions. (Report - Prezi overview)
Apr 16, 2009 0
Video From Finland Science Museums Panel
I was on this panel in March - the video is here now. I think I said some smart things.
Apr 16, 2009 0
IEDC Newsletter Article
This article appeared recently in ED Now, the newsletter of the International Economic Development Council.
Download PDF: Regional Knowledge Ecosystems: Laying the Groundwork for Future Technology-Based Economic Development
Apr 15, 2009 0
Foreword to “Handbook of Urban Informatics”
This was published recently, and blogged about over on Richard Florida’s Creative Cities blog.
PDF (1.8 Mb)
Apr 13, 2009 0
Named to NFTC’s Global Innovation Forum Brain Trust
I have to admit I don’t see eye-to-eye with the National Foreign Trade Council on a lot of issues, especially around intellectual property, but it’s nice to be at the table with Amar Bhide, Dean Kamen and a great panel of other experts, as well as having the ear of their corporate membership. I suspect I’ll be the “open innovation”, “Silicon Valley” and “cluster” guy.
Press release: Global Innovation Forum Unveils Brain Trust
Jan 22, 2009 0
Augmenting Public Space and Authoring Public Art: The Role of Locative Media
A new article I wrote for a Spanish art journal published by the open University of Catalonia.
Abstract: Locative media remain a useful frame for understanding how collaborative sensing will broadly empower groups to author alternative narratives of urban public space. The case of Olafur Eliasson's New York City Waterfalls is used to describe this process in the context of a recent large public art work.
Also en Español!
Dec 3, 2008 0
Latest CV on Gdocs
I've decided to upload my CV to gdocs and publish it as a webpage there. Makes updating a snap for me and you can always fetch the latest version there.
Oct 28, 2008 Comments Off
DIYcity.org launches…
I’m working with colleague John Geraci from NYU’s ITP program to launch a new effort at leveraging web 2.0 technologies to make smarter cities. From John’s announcement:
Hello friends, acquaintances and greater Geraci network,
I’m excited to share with you my new web project,
DIYcity. Please check it out.DIYcity is a site dedicated to finding ways people can make their cities work better with the use of emerging web technologies.
What do I mean ‘making cities work better’? I mean making them more efficient, more effective, more sustainable, better able to respond to problems, friendlier and generally more accessible to the individual user. DIYcity aims to accomplish these goals with user-built applications created on top of existing web technologies. It is a site where problems are posed and solutions are offered in the form of functioning apps, submitted by anyone and for use by all.
This is an exciting time to be launching this project for two reasons:
One, we are increasingly aware of the need for our cities to be efficient, effective and sustainable, and yet at the same time cities’ abilities to respond to these needs are collapsing, as city budgets get cut due to the current financial crisis.
Two, virtually every day there are new applications and technologies on hand for organizing people, sharing information, plugging into central data pools, aggregating individual input, and doing all of this aggregating/accessing/organizing faster and more easily.
These two factors taken together make me think that cities, as systems, are on the verge of an intense and exciting period of reinvention.
DIYcity aims to be at the center of that reinvention.
The site, you will find, is very raw. I am announcing it now in its raw state because I need you all to help get it to the next stage, that of a thriving, diffuse place of discussion and ideas.
Please take a minute and check out the site. If you like it and are interested in the idea here are some ways you could help out:
- if you live in the NYC area, join the
DIY New York City group. That group will be holding a meetup some time in the near future.- if you live elsewhere and want, you can join DIYcity, log in and
create a group for your local area.- if you use twitter, please tweet about this.
- if you happen to blog, feel free to blog about it.
- finally, and if nothing else, sign up and join the
DIYcity main group and contribute to the thought process whenever you feel the urge.Feel free to forward this email. I welcome all feedback, and look forward to seeing you on DIYcity.
John
Jul 30, 2008 2
Current Projects
Here are some of the things I’m working on…
- Science in Place - research on future geogrpahies and architectures of R&D - http://www.iftf.org/innovation
- Future of Cities - http://www.futureofcities.org
- Blue Economy - http://www.blueeconomy.com
- Situated Technologies proposal
(ps. I also wanted to make sure this blog is now getting TwitterFeed-ed to Twitter)
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