Tabula Rase: New Sondo – Feng

Smart City

  • P21 “It would sense the layout of the modules and reassemble them overnight into a new pattern to provoke, delight, and otherwise stimulate the retreat goers.” In those words, there is a possibility or tendency for flexibility. Dose the flexibility good for a building or architecture for users.
  • P28 Why dose author said, “…Songdo became too big to fail.”?
  • The upgrade speed of “smart thing” is much faster then infrastructure. (For example the least iPhone already can not connect to the least MacBook without a usb a-c adapter.) How would people deal with them?

Test Bed as Urban Epistemology

  • At the 4th paragraph of Automated Infrastructures. “at the domestic level, it is assumed that every wall, every mirror and every surface can become an interface that offers users everything from on-demand data and weather reports to home medical monitoring.”   It’s very convenient if people could get data of information from anywhere at home, but would it become a problem about information overload at home for people?