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Nice video documentation on current LED-augmented architecture in Shanghai. By Frank Kaltenbach

History Pin [historypin.com] hopes to become the largest user-generated archive of the world’s historical images and stories. The website acts like a digital time machine, and uses Google Maps and Street View technology to allow the wide public to dig out, upload and pin their own old photos, as well as the stories behind them, onto an interactive map. Uniquely, Historypin lets people layer old images onto modern Street View scenes, providing a series of geo-located time tunnel views into the past.

More:

Look Back Maps
Sepia Town

Make History
Paris in 26 Megapixels

Truly a great initiative!

Well referenced post on historic aspects and examples of urban screens as architectural element.

(via @a456 )

Design against crime using an augmented reality scenery on a digital billboard.

“Public service employees in the Netherlands face aggression and violence on the streets more and more often. Onlookers unfortunately do not intervene often enough when they encounter a situation like this. A live interactive billboard in Amsterdam and Rotterdam is used to place people in a similar situation witch confronts them with their inactivity.”

via @themobilecity @nielshendriks

Good series of articles on the DIgital City from the November 09 issue of Wired UK. The full Digital Cities package:
– Networked information will reshape our cities
– ‘Sense-able’ urban design
– London after the great 2047 flu outbreak
– The transport of tomorrow is already here

More here

Participative media facade project as a hommage to blinkenlights. Good range of tools for creating content for the facade: 1.) a standalone AIR app 2.) a video importer/converter 3.) a processing library to build own p5 sketches

Pulse is a 45 meter LED facade display being activated by passing traffic. It shows light patterns based on the passing vehicles.
2009, Los Angeles, California

“The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study. The project was run by EXP, an architectural research group at the University of Westminster. It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and made possible by the members of Archigram and their heirs, who retain copyright of all images.”

A four-step model for implementing user experience metrics for a new Google product:

* Define user experience goals.
* Identify signals for user experience success or failure.
* Translate signals into metrics.
* Identify ways to track metrics.

Illustrated with real-world examples from a process that took place at Google throughout 2009