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Media architecture's combination of the digital and the physical can trigger, enhance, and amplify urban experiences. In this paper, we examine how to bring about and foster more open and participatory approaches to engage communities through media ...

Media façades and reactive architecture are playing an increasingly important role in media circulation and the experience of the city. The highly visible and data-reactive low-resolution displays of buildings like Toronto's CN Tower or New York's ...

This paper explores the wider contexts of digital policy, transparency, digitisation and how this changes city administration and the role of the (digital) publics, using City Bug Report as a design case. Employing a mix between design research and ...

Networked public displays are being portrayed as "a new communication medium for the 21^st century", potentially having the same impact on society as radio, TV, and the Internet. In order to understand how this new medium can impact the society this ...

Media are becoming constitutive elements of the built environment. From the perspective of mediatization theory, this paper explores the implications of such a claim, with the automobile as an illustrative case, which in turn leads to four observations ...

To what extent can information be successfully communicated through a media façade and what are the relevant parameters? In this paper, we focus on the issue of information design for media façades, which is not often discussed separately. As a thought ...

New lighting technologies with means to control urban lighting pursuant to sensor data in real-time are approaching the market and design schemes. However, there is a lack of design tools for designing adaptive lighting without programming skills. In ...

This paper sets out to develop and extend current literature on design practices for ambient media façades. It does this by bringing together theories of ambient media, computational aesthetics, and urban aesthetics. This unique theoretical combination ...

Mobile devices and wireless networks have a prominent place in our interaction with the environment and with each other. Like every new technology, it has been a subject to inflated expectations. Scholars, writers, artists and architects have explored ...

The article considers the urban digital gallery as an opportunity to reclaim public space from digital factors of spatial determinism in the media city. It considers the affective quality of urban digital artworks as interface between 'human' and '...

As a knowledge based practice UNStudio's approach is to link the practical experience within the demands of the global building market with a soft conceptual design and research approach, through which innovation constantly feeds back into and ...

Designing interactions with media façades bears several challenges. One of them arises when multiple users are interacting with a media façade simultaneously. In this work we report on our experiences designing a mobile multi-user interaction system ...

Nowadays, due to advances in electrical devices, new digital media, lighting, information and communication technologies, cities are being used 24/7. The paper discusses critical aspects of Media Architecture in the context of public spaces as well as ...