mark shepard

A chapter I contributed to the Routledge Companion to Smart Cities, edited by Katharine Willis and Alessandro Aurigi.

Predictive Geographies, in New Geographies 7: Geographies of Information. Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD).

Everyday entanglements of technology and urban life. An essay for Harvard Design Magazine’s issue on Urbanism’s Core (HDM 37).

Pro+agonist: The Art of Opposition is a companion publication to Discourse and Discord: Architecture of Agonism from the Kitchen Table to the City Street, a symposium presented by the Walker Art Center and Northern Lights.mn in Spring 2012.

Inscribing a Square: Urban Data as Public Space, edited by Dietmar Offenhuber and Katja Schechtner, emerged from the Sensing Place / Placing Sense symposium that took place during the 2011 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.

An op-ed piece on open source architecture for Domus magazine organized by Carlo Ratti that I contributed to with Paola Antonelli, Adam Bly, Lucas Dietrich, Joseph Grima, Dan Hill, John Habraken, Alex Haw, John Maeda, Nicholas Negroponte, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Casey Reas, Marco Santambrogio, Chiara Somajni, and Bruce Sterling.

Sentient City: ubiquitous computing, architecture and the future of public space is an edited volume of case studies and essays that critically address the evolving relations between contemporary technologies and urban life.

‘Open’ 19: Beyond Privacy examines and reconsiders the concept of privacy from the legal, sociological, media theoretical and activist perspectives. 

The first pamphlet in the Situated Technologies Pamphlets Series, co-authored with Adam Greenfield, is an overview of the key issues, historical precedents, and contemporary approaches surrounding the design of situated technologies and inhabiting cities populated by them.

The Situated Technologies Pamphlets Series extends a discourse initiated in the summer of 2006 by a three-month-long discussion on the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC) mailing list, which culminated in the Architecture and Situated Technologies symposium.

I contributed an article on the Tactical Sound Garden to 306090 09: Regarding Public Space, published by Princeton Architectural Press.