Tag: close and remote

Social City Talk – Graham Harwood

  GRAHAM HARWOOD has lived and worked with Matsuko Yokokoji (YoHa English translation ‘aftermath’) since 1994. YoHa’s graphic vision, technical tinkering, has powered several celebrated collaborations establishing an international reputation for pioneering arts…

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Social City Talk – Nigel Tyrell

  NIGEL TYRELL is currently Head of Environment for the London Borough of Lewisham. He has a particular interest in the development and application of mobile technology. In 2004 he founded ‘LoveLewisham’…

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Social City Talk – Jennifer Gabrys

  DR JENNIFER GABRYS is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Principal Investigator on the European Research Council starting grant, “Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice.” Her work…

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Social City Talk – Olivia Solon

  OLIVIA SOLON is a writer and editor specialising in technology, science startups and digital culture. Currently Associate Editor of Wired.co.uk, she has also had work published in The Telegraph, Marketing Week,…

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Secure City Talk – Dolan Cummings

  DOLAN CUMMINGS is an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Ideas, having been its research and editorial director from 2001 to 2010. He continues to edit the IoI’s online review Culture…

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Secure City Talk – Kasper De Graaf

  KASPER DE GRAAF is a specialist in enterprise communication and information strategy, with experience of delivering large-scale innovative projects in the commercial sector as well as for national and local…

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Secure City Talk – David Barnard Wills

    DAVID BARNARD-WILLS researches the politics of security and surveillance technologies. He is a Senior Research Analyst at Trilateral Research & Consulting LLP, and has previously been a Research Fellow…

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Secure City Talk – David Matthews

  DAVID MATTHEWS is an award-winning writer and journalist who has written for the Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, Esquire and the Mail on Sunday.  David also wrote and presented the highly acclaimed three-part documentary series for…

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Sound City Talk – Cathi Unsworth

  CATHI UNSWORTH is the author of four pop-cultural crime novels, Weirdo (2012), Bad Penny Blues (2009), The Singer (2007) and The Not Knowing (2005) and the editor of the award-winning…

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Sound City Talk – Francesca Panetta

FRANCESCA PANETTA is a multi award-winning producer and sound artist. She is currently working as Special Projects Editor leading on innovation in storytelling and new platforms, at The Guardian’s audio department. She also…

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Sound City Talk – Peter Cusack

  PETER CUSACK is a field recordist and sound artist with a special interest in acoustic ecology. He initiated the “Favourite Sounds Project” to discover what people find positive about their…

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Sound City Talk – John Levack Drever

  JOHN LEVACK DREVER is a sonic artist and soundscape researcher with a focus on the minutiae of everyday soundscapes, background noise and human utterance. His practice bridges collaborative art practice,…

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Smart City Talk – Christian Nold

  CHRISTIAN NOLD is an artist, designer and researcher working to develop new participatory models and technologies for communal representation. He has written the books ‘Mobile Vulgus’ (2001) and ‘Internet of…

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Smart City Talk – Emilie Giles

  EMILIE GILES is a producer, artist and educator. Her work spans creative technology, pervasive gaming and maker culture. She is based in London and works for Codasign as Producer and as an…

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Smart City Talk – Matthew Fuller

  MATTHEW FULLER is author of various books including ‘Media Ecologies, materialist energies in art and technoculture’, (MIT) ‘Behind the Blip, essays on the culture of software’ and ‘Elephant & Castle’.…

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Smart City Talk – Ajit Jaokar

    AJIT JAOKAR is the founder of the London based research company futuretext which specialises in identifying and researching cross-domain technology trends. In 2009, Ajit was nominated to the World Economic Forum’s…

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Smart Cities and the Internet of Things – Empowering the Citizen

The ex-Chinese Premier Wen Jiabo once said “Internet + Internet of things = Wisdom of the earth” Indeed the Internet of Things revolution promises to transform many domains .. Here,…

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