National University of Singapore
From REMAP
Contact: Ryan Dorn, 310.825.5698, ryan -at- remap.ucla.edu
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) are undertaking a multi-phase collaborative research process to investigate the potential for embedded networks and mobile devices to invigorate urban public space and augment civic life. The first phase will yield demonstrations of how public artwork may be informed by technological and ethnographic research. These demonstration projects will explore topics such as cyclical pedestrian flow, festivals in public space, and the mapping of online social networks for utilization within built environments. Simultaneously, technological research threads will focus on the analysis and creation of unique network architecture and authoring tools, as well as original techniques for visualization and sonification. The second phase will apply the technological, cultural, and artistic discoveries of the first phase. A testbed infrastructure will be constructed to support experimental urban interventions through the use of embedded and mobile sensing devices.
With an overarching goal of grounding the design of related technology in civic reality, this exciting collaboration between two world-class institutions brings an inimitable approach to the challenge of representing the urban community’s emergent identity. Through participatory design of hypermedia systems, the process will encourage and aim to expand community involvement in the development and employment of urban public space.
NUS Collaborators:
- Prof Adrian Cheok
- Prof CC Hang
- Prof Stephen Wittkopf
NUS Visiting Scholars:
- Szue Hann Tan [1]
- Roger Thomas Tan
