Reading this post after I just read this line in a book:"Examples of the phenomenon of Encroachment can be found everywhere in our society. A blatant example is the 'do it yourself' movement,...."
Strange. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Janna Hicks DeVylder <[email protected]>wrote: > Has anyone had involvement with the DIYcity group & project? > > http://diycity.org/ > > >From their site: > > > What is needed right now is a new type of city: a city that is like the > > Internet in its openness, participation, distributed nature and rapid, > > organic evolution - a city that is not centrally operated, but that is > > created, operated and improved upon by all - a DIY City. > > > > This is the DIYcity Challenge: *can we, working together, define and > build > > a version 1.0 of the Do-It-Yourself City*, a city that operates on open > > data flowing through decentralized, open source tools, that actively > engages > > residents not only as users but as participants and owners of the system? > > > > *Can we build this not only for our own individual cities, but for cities > > everywhere?* Can we build an open toolset that any city, anywhere in the > > world, can access, modify to suit their needs, and deploy on their own > > terms? > > > > Some of the proposed projects are things like: > > Cooperative Bike Share > Distributed Smart Phone Bus Tracker > Bar Code Bus Tracker > Taxi Share > Open Source Post Office > Open Source Ridesharing App > Zoning Application* > > *Looks like some interesting ways to utilize your IxD skillset for systems, > services, or even digital applications. > Even IxDA local groups could tap into this. > I would love to hear if anyone has been participating. > > Janna > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
