The Hackable City project
The Hackable City is a research project that explores the potential for new modes of collaborative citymaking, in a network society.
The Pool of Examples for CyberParks is a collection of material about the interaction between people, places and technologies, it is prepared on the base of the COST Action 1306 - CyberParks and on collaborative work.
The purpose of the POOL is to promote successful production of public open spaces that are inclusive and meet the people’s needs by improving knowledge exchange. In the face of this, CyberParks seek to increase the understanding of the benefits of TECHNOLOGY to ENHANCE PLACES in order to achieve an ADDED VALUE (new outdoor experiences, new possibilities of use, new types of spaces).
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The Hackable City is a research project that explores the potential for new modes of collaborative citymaking, in a network society.
A Smart Learning Journey, comprising 10 Points of Interest (PoI) was developed to explore the theme ‘Democracy’ along the main street of Valletta city. Smart learning is characterised by customised, networked, data-intensive, location-based, augmented learning.
«Sign on a Truck» is a traveling video instalation organized and produced by Jenny Holzer, that ran from 3 to 5 November, 1984
Barbara Kruger presented at High Line, a hand-painted mural titled Untitled (Blind Idealism Is…) featuring the slogan “BLIND IDEALISM IS REACTIONARY SCARY DEADLY,” (with REACTIONARY SCARY strikethrough) adapted from Afro-Caribbean philosopher Frantz Fanon.
Crown Fountain is an interactive video sculpture installed in Chicago's Millennium Park that opened in 2004. It was conceived by Catalan artist Jaume Plensa and executed by Krueck and Sexton Architects. It is a fountain reflecting pool placed between a pair of glass brick towers.
This mobile learning activity explores how Smartphones or e-tablets can enhance one’s experience while visiting a CyberPark.
"The Digital Water Pavilion is an interactive structures made of digitally-controlled water curtains, built at the entrance of the 2008 Expo in Zaragoza/Spain. Designed for the Zaragoza Expo 2008, the pavilion is a flexible and multi-functional space.
Yearly Festival along the river Danube and the park using digital information to create an new form of Space in relation with contemporary art including music, light, digital information and performance.
Landscape Alive is a collaborative project of Häme University of Applied Sciences Built environment in Finland and Birkenhead Park, Parks and Countryside Service in Wirral Metropolitan Council, UK. Digital park guidance has been developed and implemented at both sites.
This is the main urban park (green space) of the city of Volos, located at the waterfront and the centre of the city
A smart tree in the central square of the Trikala city in Greece.
Chopin Benches (musical benches) have been placed in 15 key sites connected with the places where Frederic Chopin - famous Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era - spent time in Warsaw in the first part of 19th century.
Visitors to the Harvard Graduate School of Design's Gund Hall may be welcomed by an unusual sight: an undulating concrete blanket sitting beside Gund's main entrance. The installation is actually an interactive soundscape comprising thousands of bits of real-time data.
Every second Sunday of the Carnaval, in mid February, in the city of Kavala a parade is organised by local schools, with a different main subject every year.
Zagreb Be There is an awarded mobile app that provides visitors/tourists in Zagreb with 7 different, less-conventional walking routes.
The spring of 2015 marked the fifth anniversary of the Parklet Program in San Francisco. In celebration of this milestone, Pavement to Parks released a new Parklet Manual and Video Series. Watch the Parklet Community Video by clicking here!
The first superblock in the street plan originally designed by Cerdà is now a reality. Changes to mobility in the area mean that the block between C/ Badajoz, C/ Pallars, C/ La Llacuna and C/ Tànger is now ready.
The Klanglicht Festival presents artistic sound and light installations on several hot spots in the city centre of Graz. It takes place once a year and gathers more than 50.000 visitors a night.
The Graz CityInfoTerminal is a cooperation between municipality, advertising industry and the cultural heritage commission. As part of the UNESCO world cultural heritage, the city center of Graz is strongly observed for new "interventions".
The National Palace of Culture - Congress Centre Sofia (NDK) is the largest multifunctional complex in Southeastern Europe that was opened in 1981 to mark 1300 years since the founding of the Bulgarian state.
White Night is a prestigious international art project designed to bring the contemporary forms of art to the public as well as untraditional, unrecognized and significant places of European metropolis.
Bluetooth low energy (BLE) technology is able to reach the devices of every user is visiting a place.
Solar integrated technologies, called SIT Station, installed in Al Qasemi Academic College Campus in 2016 allows people to free charge mobile phones and access the Internet through wi-fi.
One of the new places to visit in Sarajevo is the "music stairs", located in the Pruščakova street.The idea, is to refresh the old stairs and make this public space a more attractive place.
“Shadow WiFi” it´s a Wi-Fi network developed by Happiness Brussels that only operates on devices that are in the shade of the sun. The first installation was on the Playa Agua Dulce in Peru, launched with the Peruvian League Against Cancer.