HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF A URBAN SPACE SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF MEDIA?
CityMurmur tries to understand and visualize how media attention reshapes the urban space and the city.

On-line newspapers, information agency, blogs and personal websites, thematic media are monitored to highlight the pattern of perceptions on the urban space. This monitoring activity leads to the creation of an atlas that will produce – in real-time – different maps based on news sources, themes, and time. The atlas allows users to understand the urban space as a function of media attention and biases and social and cultural diversity of the city itself.
The goal of the project is to show how different media differently describe the urban space through the attention that is payed on each street of the city. In the hypothesis of the increasing importance of the on-line presence in contemporary society, a media geography has been generated intersecting the media scape with the geographical reality of the city.

Murmur, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

After a week of cañas, tapas, fried food and heavy work this is the first result of the Visualizar’08 Workshop.

More specifically this is the wiki page of murmur

Density Design Lab, Knowledgecartography.org and ovrflw, under the nom de plume Writing Acamenic English, are proud to annouce that Murmur is one of the selected project for VISUALIZAR’08: DATABASE CITY.

I have been discussing a lot about quality of life in the last month in very different situations, and it made me thinking this is a key and imperative issue now.
I presented a paper in Changing the change conference in Turin. The conference was about design research for sustainability and was a very outstanding place for exchanging ideas and meet interesting people. I spoke with Chris Ryan

Complex Faces, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

TWDC – Designing connected places Summer School -
Thank you all, it was amazing.

Reviewing the book “Shaping Things”, written by Bruce Sterling, John Thackara states: “Our dilemma is not that we receive too much information. We don’t receive anywhere near the quantity of data it takes to overload our neurons; our minds are capable of processing and analyzing many gigabits of data per second—a lot more data than [...]

The Hospital system map “From client to patient” introduced by Manuela Ciancilla at “The 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Intersections of Visualization Practices and Techniques” 7th-9th May, Loughborough University. “A JISC funded joint event hosted by vizNET and 3DVisA Following the successful vizNET 2007 event, vizNET 2008 event aims to establish an international medium for the [...]

Quoting from Paola Antonelli interiew: What has changed in scale is that is not anymore about the dimension, but rather about the complexity (via SwissMiss)

Mapping Me / Mapping You A roundtable meeting about cartography between An Mertens (and other members of Saturdays, Woman and Free Software) , Liesbeth Huybrechts (Cultural studies PHD KuLeuven, researcher, curator), Nicolas Malevé (Tresor software, Towards.be) and Peter Westenberg (Routes + Routines) investigating GEO data control, different layers and perspectives on the art of mapping, [...]

The DensityDesign team is involved in the organization of the workshop “Complexity maps” included in the programme of the Summer School entitled “Designing Connected Places” :

Designing Connected Places is an international summer design school. But there is much more. It is also a programme for action throughout Piemonte. Using the tools of design, solutions will be outlined for 6 problems expressed by 6 local bodies. These are: health and well-being, food and new food networks, urban mobility, security and quality of life in the city, new production systems, and forms of representation of the region and its communities.

The workshop will be leaded by Christian Nold. Apply now!