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thesocialcomputer.eu

June 21, 2010

I stumbled upon this site which is the project site of a group who are attempting to realise The Social Computer. I’m in the processing of contacting the right people in and around the project. http://thesocialcomputer.eu “The social computer is a future computational system that harnesses the innate problem solving, action and information gathering powers… » read more

Architecture, Arts, city, Civil, Computers, Creative, English, information society, Knowledge, Links, News, participation, Project, Technology, Voting

Tightening Feedback Loops

February 6, 2009

This work is in the Public Domain. The whole project is about “tightening feedback loops” which is aiming to address the fundamental problems with the current world systems communism, capitalism, democracy, organisation etc. The majority of the problems are there because the feedback loops are slow and dumb so the bigger problems can not be… » read more

Architecture, city, Civil, English, Experiments, information society, Knowledge, participation, Project, Technology, Voting, Workshops

2001 BBC interview about city culture festival

October 3, 2008

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://uk.youtube.com/v/af3Nu0d1M2Y” width=”320″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] This was the project that initially sparked the idea of a building with a very special function. This festival is the basic format I will use for the Sandbox festival which is a city wide experimental Civil Sandbox within an event. For me, this is the best way to… » read more

Architecture, Arts, Background, city, Civil, Creative, Experiments, Feedback, information society, Interviews, Music, News, participation, Press, Project, video, Workshops

2002 Interview clip about an intelligent city building

This work is in the Public Domain. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://uk.youtube.com/v/pcx_XjHRoYM” width=”320″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Aladdin Ayesh and Karina discuss ideas of how to use a Social Computer in terms of intelligent buildings and usage of congnitive technologies. They are looking at what we could use the building to help the citizens deal with civil decisions. Some… » read more

Architecture, Background, Brainstorm, city, Civil, Computers, English, Experiments, Feedback, information society, Interviews, participation, policy, Project, Technology, video, Voting, Workshops

Civil Sandbox entry for Google Project 10^100

October 1, 2008

http://www.project10tothe100.com/index.html [kml_flashembed movie=”http://uk.youtube.com/v/M1Mbi-lH0Qg” width=”320″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] What one sentence best describes your idea? A new kind of city building that serves as a risk-free, continous city-improvement platform for big ideas. Describe your idea in more depth. (maximum 300 words) The Civil Sandbox is a name for a new kind of building. The building is… » read more

Architecture, city, Civil, Creative, Experiments, Music, News, participation, Project, Proposals, Technology, video

From inbredTV to Social Computer 2004

September 30, 2008

This work is in the Public Domain.
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This is an explaination of what happened after the Blue Moon project and a brief interview with Pete Kercher …

Architecture, Background, city, Civil, Computers, Creative, English, Experiments, Feedback, information society, Interviews, Knowledge, Music, participation, policy, Project, Technology, video, Workshops

Introducing the “Civil Sandbox”

January 21, 2008

This work is in the Public Domain. I started in 2000 with a process of understanding, developing and discussing a complex conceptual framework I called “The Social Computer”. This could be seen as a thought experiment along the lines of – What can a society achieve if it was more “reprogrammable”, and what could a building achieve… » read more

Architecture, Background, city, Civil, Computers, documents, English, information society, Knowledge, Links, Project, Technology