Testbed as Urban Epistemology – Calvillo, Halpern, LeCavalier, Pietsch
“cisco’s strategic planners envision a totalising sensory environment in which human actions and reactions from eye movements to body movements can be traced, tracked, and responded to in the name of consumer satisfaction and work efficiency ”
– It seems like Songdo in a way plans to de-humanize people in their efforts to data-mine all human actions, do we already see this happening now in cities in America?
– What do they mean when they say ” in the name of… work efficiency”?
– How far does Songdo plan on influencing the behavior of human/city interaction?
– Are they re-defining the boundary of public/private?
The $100 Billion Jackpot – Townsend
– “Such green gadgetry seems irrelevant…” writes Tim Edelsten a conservationist in Korea, “when you realize that a vast natural paradise has been destroyed to create all this new office space.”
– Is Songdo headed in the wrong direction? Should we be focusing on how to make our current cities smarter and extending them, rather than building completely new smart/green cities from the ground up?