Tag: urban data science

We hosted SMART CITIES? Impossible Objects, Political Objects, and Measuring Objects with Storefront for Art and Architecture on April 23. Three panels of scholars, designers, planners, and artists people explored new terms, new indices, and new tools for urban intelligence.

Here you’ll find photos of the event, here’s the program, and below you’ll find video documentation of the three panels. Here’s who came:

PANEL ONE:

• Jorge Otero-Pailos, artist, architect, preservationist, Professor and Director of Historic Preservation, Columbia
• Jürgen Hermann Mayer, architect and artist
• Lydia Matthews, curator, writer; Professor of Visual Culture, The New School
• David Smiley, architect, architectural historian, chair of CUP’s board of directors
• Luke Swarthout, Director of Adult Education Services, NYPL, with a background in education policy
• Vyjayanthi Rao, anthropologist, Director, Terreform

PANEL TWO:

• Ingrid Burrington, artist and writer
• Farzin Lotfi-Jam / Mark Wasiuta, curators of Control Syntax Rio exhibition @ Storefront
• James Venturi, documentary filmmaker
• Dawn Barber, Co-Founder, NY Tech Meetup + NY Creative Tech Week
• Matthijs Bouw, architect and urbanist
• Dorit Avganim, doctoral student @ Milano, Digital Equity Research Fellow

PANEL THREE:

• Paolo Cirio, artist and hacktivist
• Ariane Lourie Harrison, architect and author
• Jeff Maki, technologist and Senior Director, Innovation and Strategy, Intersection
• Agnieszka Kurant, artist