Toward the Sentient City: Computing, Architecture and The City

My friend, Laura Forlano, one of the coolest people I know, is always sending me invitations to some of the most unique events in NYC…and the upcoming exhibit “Towards the Sentient City” is no exception.

You are invited to the opening reception for

Toward the Sentient City

An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous computing, architecture, and the city

Thursday, September 17, 2009

6:00 — 9:00 p.m.

457 Madison Avenue/New York City

Exhibition on view September 18 — November 9, 2009

Curated by Mark Shepard and organized by the Architectural League of New York

Featuring five newly commissioned projects:

Too Smart City

JooYoun Paek, David Jimison

Amphibious Architecture

Living Architecture Lab (David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang), xdesign Environmental

Health Clinic (Natalie Jeremijenko)

Natural Fuse

Usman Haque, Nitipak ‘Dot’ Samsen, Ai Hasegawa, Cesar Harada, and Barbara

Jasinowicz

Trash Track

SENSEable City Laboratory, MIT

Breakout!

Anthony Townsend (Institute for the Future), Georgia Borden, Amanda Kross,

Jung Hoon Kim, Antonina Simeti (DEGW ), Dana Spiegel (NYC wireless), Laura

Forlano (Parsons The New School for Design), Tony Bacigalupo (New Work City),

Sean Savage (PariSoMa), Elysse Preposi (Sarah Lawrence College)

Toward the Sentient City was made possible by the J. Clawson Mills Fund of the

Architectural League and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine

Arts. Additional support has been provided by the Department of Architecture,

School of Architecture and Planning and the Department of Media Study, College

of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo.

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FYI: Laura Forlano is Kauffman Fellow in Law at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She received her Ph.D. in Communications from Columbia University in 2008. Her dissertation, “When Code Meets Place: Collaboration and Innovation at WiFi Hotspots,” explores the intersection between organizations, technology (in particular, mobile and wireless technology) and the role of place in communication, collaboration and innovation.