“Tinkering Toward Utopia”
- “ Dodgeball had taught him that knowing where you are wasn’t actually that valuable; the value was in using that information to unlock new experience.” From this book, “Foursquare” is successful because of exploration new experience from current information. In this situation, to say there are a lot of data exchange in a single day in this world, but what is useful what is not useful? The biggest challenge of “DIYcity” is how to gather useful information(data) or how to use current information(data) for exploration new valuable interactions behind these data?
- There is a very interesting part between “Bottom-up and up to bottom” ways. DIYcity which is totally bottom up organization…there was nobody giving orders but up bottom “Smart city” which has clear orders from the government. In this two ways, hackers or self-organizations seem to have different characters: one is “hand”, the second is “mind”. The contradiction here is should mind compromises to hand or hand compromises to mind? Then who could give this contradiction an order?
Engaging the Idiot in Participatory Digital Urbanism
Such “reports” might be considered idiotic since they slow down the assumed ways in which citizens are meant to participate in maintaining streets and instead raise open-ended questions and complaints that reveal how many types of street-based concerns and politics are not easily amenable to “fixing.”
- The author talked about “the idiot” in participatory digital urbanism, these “reports” are idiotic, they are wasting time, misleading, slowing down the process. But the real idiot is data – wrong data. Although the idiot participatory cannot be avoided because Smart city is based on all citizens, based on people when we engage in participating digital urbanism, could we have a solution to filter the un-useful data?