[spectre] Situated Technologies Pamphlets 2: Urban Versioning System 1.0

[Mark Shepard]

Situated Technologies Pamphlets 2:
Urban Versioning System 1.0
Matthew Fuller and Usman Haque
(Illustrations by David Cuesta)

Now available from Lulu.com – http://www.lulu.com/content/2734646

The second volume of the Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series asks  
the question: what lessons can architecture learn from software  
development, and more specifically, from the Free, Libre, and Open  
Source Software (FLOSS) movement? Written in the form of a quasi- 
license, Urban Versioning System 1.0 posits seven constraints that,  
if followed, will contribute to an open source urbanism that  
radically challenges the conventional ways in which cities are  
constructed.

+++ About the Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series +++

Series Editors: Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard
Published by the Architectural League of New York

The Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series extends a discourse  
initiated in the summer of 2006 by a three-month-long discussion on  
the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC) mailing list that  
culminated in the Architecture and Situated Technologies symposium at  
the Urban Center and Eyebeam in New York, co-produced by the Center  
for Virtual Architecture (CVA), the Architectural League of New York  
and the iDC. The series explores the implications of ubiquitous  
computing for architecture and urbanism: how our experience of space  
and the choices we make within it are affected by a range of mobile,  
pervasive, embedded or otherwise “situated” technologies. Published  
three times a year over three years, the series is structured as a  
succession of nine “conversations” between researchers, writers and  
other practitioners from architecture, art, philosophy of technology,  
comparative media studies, performance studies, and engineering.

For more information about the series, visit  
www.situatedtechnologies.net

+++ About the Architectural League +++

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