Meeting Notes 11.21.11

Bas Kalmayer Levente Polyak Tahir Hemphill Jamie O'Shea Catharine Mark Nova Taeyoon Brian House Chantal Schoemaker Participatory Urbanism: Crowdsourced maps and public spaces Levente Polyak Questions of visibility Patrick Geddes' Outlook Tower c1910/1920 Citizens viewing the city, control of urban space Otto Neurath - education of public through visualization. Diagrams Latour - making invisible visible (Latour) Rise of cartography popularity Radical Cartography (book) Experimental Geography (book) NYC BigApps - for example, mapping trees in the city What happens when cartography is not based on a single dataset, but is crowd sourced. Maps can claim terrain, can become a matter of life and death Brian Lehrer - WNYC - crowd sourcing using his 10,000 radio audience +++ projects Secondhand culture vs design street Prague watch - ushahidi - witnessing and interpreting +++ NYC - reforming behavior in public space, Panopticon - Reyner Banham POPs - 1961 zoning regulation, 1975 seating and trees required Rules defined by owners: ambiguous definitions How to create zoning text can reinforce good design? What language is capable of generating attractive AND accommodating public space Metal seating too cold in winter, too hot in summer - ways of controlling behavior in public space Anti homeless design - Regulations at Zuccotti Park - changed after the start of OWS +++ What is public space - is it that it is a place where you can go anytime and do whatever you want? Who is responsible for sidewalks? Is a free open democratic public space a myth? Where does it come from? There's a mapping project Ideas for occupation that aren't spatial? Occupy time - blocking subways, etc Did these POPs get conceived as a place for protest?