I have been a member of Archinect for a while, more as a voyeur than anything else, but I would like to ask your thoughts on the following:
I am not an architect nor an LA, however, I am contemplating the switch. Professionally I work in technology, developing communication devices and applications (websites, iPhone apps, etc.) that enable users to engage and experience a brand, organization or entity from a handlheld wireless device. I would like to merge my current career and my passion in a new path - while I don't have all the answers, or even the questions, the futurist in me believes that it is only a matter of time until technology progresses into our built and natural surroundings, affording a sentient experience, where technology sense our landscape and vice versa.
As I prepare for schools I wonder if anyone knows of schools, programs or researchers working on these types of ideas: the integration of technology and landscape architecture.
usman haque
anthony townsend
kazys varnelis (networked urbanism)
dan hill (city of sound/ARUP Sydney)
carlo ratti, et al. (MIT)
jan chipchase (nokia)
see ubicomp in general
not necessarily landscape architecture, but urbanism
all you need to know about landscape architecture is green side up.
we still use shovels.
cameron mcnall, electroland...
does alot of things integrating architecture and user controlled environments... see the RGB project at SCIARC on their site... http://electroland.net/
seems pretty much a given that surfaces are going to be interactive with mobile devices in the near future... basically you can place your phone or digital camera on the table for example and drag and drop content onto devices or share content on the table surface...
on the more prosaic applications of technology, I have to wonder if the use of digita. technology to manage micro-irrigation systems using environmental sensors might be able to greatly reduce water use by landscapes. I know a lot of these techniques are being adopted in intensive commercial agriculture buy I haven't seen or read anything about such use in designed recreational landscape design.
I have a background in LA and am also passionate about seeing how technology will be used as a design material in landscapes and the built environment.
Postscapes* put together a list of 100 people tracking the term 'Internet of Things' and many of the people in the list have backgrounds in Urban Design and Architecture that you might find interesting to follow.
Future of Technology In Landscape Architecture? Sentient Landscapes?
Hi All,
I have been a member of Archinect for a while, more as a voyeur than anything else, but I would like to ask your thoughts on the following:
I am not an architect nor an LA, however, I am contemplating the switch. Professionally I work in technology, developing communication devices and applications (websites, iPhone apps, etc.) that enable users to engage and experience a brand, organization or entity from a handlheld wireless device. I would like to merge my current career and my passion in a new path - while I don't have all the answers, or even the questions, the futurist in me believes that it is only a matter of time until technology progresses into our built and natural surroundings, affording a sentient experience, where technology sense our landscape and vice versa.
As I prepare for schools I wonder if anyone knows of schools, programs or researchers working on these types of ideas: the integration of technology and landscape architecture.
I'd love to hear your thoughts?
thanks.
Yes, definitely. RISD offers node courses with the digital media and landscape architecture departments. See a listing here: http://digitalmedia.risd.edu/node-courses/
Check out the Network Urbanism program at Columbia and the Sensible City program at MIT.
Adam Greenfield "Everyware"
usman haque
anthony townsend
kazys varnelis (networked urbanism)
dan hill (city of sound/ARUP Sydney)
carlo ratti, et al. (MIT)
jan chipchase (nokia)
see ubicomp in general
not necessarily landscape architecture, but urbanism
all you need to know about landscape architecture is green side up.
we still use shovels.
cowerd, I don't use a shovel... ;-)
cameron mcnall, electroland...
does alot of things integrating architecture and user controlled environments... see the RGB project at SCIARC on their site...
http://electroland.net/
mit media lab...
a variety of research going on related to technology and environments... wearable computers etc...
http://media.mit.edu/research/groups/responsive-environments
there's also low tech interactive landscape architecture stuff like west 8's schouwburgplein plaza...
http://www.west8.nl/projects/all/schouwburgplein/
sensitive floor / wall...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epGIHK4FfCs
also... microsoft's upcoming computer coffee table... project milan:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html
seems pretty much a given that surfaces are going to be interactive with mobile devices in the near future... basically you can place your phone or digital camera on the table for example and drag and drop content onto devices or share content on the table surface...
on the more prosaic applications of technology, I have to wonder if the use of digita. technology to manage micro-irrigation systems using environmental sensors might be able to greatly reduce water use by landscapes. I know a lot of these techniques are being adopted in intensive commercial agriculture buy I haven't seen or read anything about such use in designed recreational landscape design.
I have a background in LA and am also passionate about seeing how technology will be used as a design material in landscapes and the built environment.
Postscapes* put together a list of 100 people tracking the term 'Internet of Things' and many of the people in the list have backgrounds in Urban Design and Architecture that you might find interesting to follow.
http://postscapes.com/top-100-thinkers-tracking-the-internet-of-things
*Disclaimer I run the site
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