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. The symposium was held at the Urban Center and Eyebeam in New York that October, co-produced by the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies, the Architectural League of New York, and the iDC.

The series explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism: How are our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics, and other “situated” technologies? How will the ability to design increasingly responsive environments alter the ways we conceive of space? What do architects need to know about urban computing, and what do technologists need to know about cities? How are these issues themselves situated within larger social, cultural, environmental, and political concerns?

The series is structured as a succession of nine “conversations” between researchers, writers and other practitioners of architecture, art, philosophy of technology, comparative media study, performance studies, and engineering. It takes on the urgent and ambitious task of exploring the implications of emerging technologies and their intersection with daily life.

Series Editors
Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard

Advisory Committee
Keller Easterling
Anne Galloway
Malcolm McCullough
Howard Rheingold

Publisher
The Architectural League of New York

Pamphlets Coordinator
Gregory Wessner,
Digital Programs and Exhibitions Director, Architectural League

Image Research and Permissions
Varick Shute,
Digital Programs and Exhibitions Assistant, Architectural League

Design
Jena Sher