How this technology will eventually work in "real life" is anyone's guess, but it looks like the collective of technologists, architects, and designers is definitely making some waves in the smart home space.
Smart City is an an urban development mission and concept we hear increasingly as a range of thinkers, technologists, architects, engineers, designers, artists and environmentalists come together to plan smart ways of building cities for citizens.
The structures were created through collaborations between carpenters, music technologists, blacksmiths, architects, musicians, sound artists and "wing nut" tinkerers.
Speakers include architect, artist and Umbrellium founder Usman Haque on empowering people to transform their cities and technologist, designer and writer Tom Armitage on adapting existing city systems for smartness, and communications and change strategist Katz Kiely on designing digital solutions to city challenges.
When you start the game, you must choose between two factions, the Animators (nature lovers) and the Architects (technologists).
Although the projects are billed under the names of the individual artists, "Civic Action" joins each participant with practitioners and professionals in related fields: architects, technologists, historians and urban specialists.
Prior to joining Mzinga, Nugent served as EVP and CTO at CA. Earlier in his career, Nugent was senior vice president and CTO of Novell, and before that senior vice president, CTO, and CIO at MunichRe/American Re; senior vice president and CTO at Xerox Corporation and chief technologist and software architect for BellSouth Corporation.
He's more of a product architect and technologist in training, orientation, and focus.
The BBC spoke to a series of architects and technologists about some of the more unusual buildings that might populate our future cities.
Each chapter conveys the unique voice of the architect, musician, technologist, or banker who essentially coauthored the book with me.
