Head Map

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localisation . community and spatial interfaces . location aware devices . nomads . mapping sex . futurearchitecture [life without buildings] . unlearning . new geography . community schisms . waypoints

headmap redux

know your place

headmap

location aware devices

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Contents

1introduction 1

know your place 1background 1the geomesh 1new world 1inertial navigation 2street lights functioning as wireless mesh network nodes 2location aware devices 2internal models 2plasticity 2intersections 2nodishness and spatialness 3location aware emergence 4closest friend 5

social software and spatialinterfaces 5localis(z)ation 5

essential interfaces 5digital objects and creatures 5different meanings 5invisible architecture 5seeing the space differently 5counter culture precedent 5localisation 5spatial and social exploration 6

community and spatial inter-faces [soft architecture] 6

community and spatial interfaces 6spatialising despatialised communities 6knowing where they are 6location aware possiblilities 6localising technology 6new ways to mark, demarcate and annotate space 6symbolism and utility spectrum 7utopian, distopian, inevitable 7real life 7new ways to relate to each other and leverage and extend thepossibilities for local community 8new ways to formalise the sharing and exchange of non mon-etised latent value 8moving from a web model to an externalised identity model 9ltering, reputation, trust systems and infomediaries 9architects and their machines for living in 10

semantic web interfaces 10

point of view is worth eighty i.q. points 10concept mapping [tinderbox view] 10interfaces to the semantic web 12the paragraph of text 13back to the oral tradition through skywriting 13gysin, burroughs, cut ups and knowledge management 14the ancient art of memory and architectonics 14the connections between things more interesting than the indi-vidual things 2context aware applications 2

augmented capitalism 3

freedom ants 3the declaration of interdependence 3scarcity and greed 5capitalism hasnt failed 5equity 5products 5house shops 6community transactions 6object orientated retailing 6right now there are a nite number of digital watches 6value 6rabid change in the techno economic subsystem 6free stuff 6micropayments 6auctions 7markets and funding 7olmecs 7

new carburetor 7

new carburetor 7misunderstood technology 7..the nineties resemble the twenties 7interfaces for human beings 8psychological time 8shining metal 8gropius 8

getting outside 8

facilitating community 8proximity 8mechanically regulating community 9seemingly innocent english villages 9double meanings [howard hughes hitch hiking] 9the richest most satisfying playground 9the space program 10signs 10augmentation precedents 10persona vitrea 11senses 11the at sided deep 11incompleteness 11i trust it more than my eyes. 11place the organising principle 11email 11information recongured according to context 11the observer at the center 11contingent on the interests of the beholder 12the tyranny of categories 12the observer augmented 12behind the next hill 12guides 12degenerates 12

geomesh infrastructure 13

wireless networking as a precursor to augmenting 13connect everything to everything 13semantic reality 13the expansion of the highway system 13internet is not the same as freeway 13coordination and support of eld operatives 13military origins 14the ally 14instant tools 14

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mesh networks politics andlaw in software 14

software as constitution and law 14linux 15addapt 15chess 15the landmark lessig ruling 15

social organisation 17

twelve principles of collaboration 17heterarchy 18a new dominant form of social organisation 18the network is the new dominant form of social organisation 18society as shelter 18domestication of grains made possible living in cities 18community as value proposition [men are better than gates] 19peer to peer companies, klogs and blogcliques 19transcend mob mentality [stig quote] 20howard rheingold barcode observation 20mapping companies 20corporations as robots 21community 21classication 21despatialised community 22cryptographically secure communities 22actors 22outsiders 22free cities 22a typical nomadic band consists of... 22real communities brought together or sustained by the net 22conferences as temporary communities 23logistics 23addressing 23augmented logistics 23

soft architecture 23new architecture 23

journey architecture 23new architecture 23path and place 24lost cat 24real space [outside versus inside] [augmenting reality vs simulat-ing it] 24abstraction and empty space 24city images 24aborigines 25waynding 25the discovery of culture in other animals 25brutus 25the landscape serves as a vast mnemonic system [and plays asocial role] 26skateboard 26mental maps 26athens 26utopia [a] 26utopia [b] 26dreams shaping reality 26pilgrim 27cathedral theory 27wooden cathedrals 27ritual 27synaesthesia through augmentation 28simulation and augmentation 28storytelling 28dunne and raby 28artist engineering 29walk home 29magical associations can inhibit if they lack exibility 29storage and retrieval city 29soft architectures 29

lost spaces 30

denition of architecture 30a new form of parasitic architecture [augmentation as] 30optimism in architecture 30human beings are nomadic at a very fundamental level 30mnemonic architectures 30psychological projection [its not really there] 30sacred space 31a locus is a place easily grasped by the memory 31the new world 31voyages of discovery 31voyages, navigation and the extension of knowledge 31new worlds inspire hope and new ways of thinking 31memory maps and symbol systems [organising and structuring]31most architectures exhibit both process and mnemonic aspects 31physical buildings function on many levels 31clay grahams symbolic arrays 31a cathedral is a symbolic clearing in the woods 32using archetypes to convey the purpose of a space 32temporary architecture 32the myths and rites constitute a mesocosm, a mediating, middlecosmos 32trees 33tree of life 33how religions work 33visualisation should help people interpret information 33the collective consciousness 33culture 33cultures give shape to worlds 33simulation and politics 33scientic annotation 33space as hierarchy of values replaced by space as a system of magnitudes 33gallileo 33the ability to think rationally is pretty rare 33cartesian systems plus emotion 34augmenting reality 34not so much a dwelling as a memory machine 34crenellations and slit windowed towers 34lions and unicorns 34externalising the internal 34memory theatre 34syncretism 34apple and cabala 34language 34the intuition of space 34evolution 34synaesthesia 34lost spaces [better use of lost spaces] 34rooms adrift 35existence is everywhere 35secede 35our time 35

land [implicit boundaries] 35

implicit boundaries 35