Situated Technologies Pamphlets 3: Situated Advocacy

by Benjamin H. Bratton

The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series, published by the Architectural League, explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. How are our experience of the city and the choices we make in it are affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics and other ÒsituatedÓ technologies? Situated Technologies Pamphlets 3: Situated Advocacy considers how situated technologies have beenÑor might beÑmobilized toward changing and/or influencing social or political policies, practices, and beliefs. What new forms of advocacy are enabled by contemporary location-based or context-aware media and information systems? Includes the ¥Community Wireless Networks as Situated Advocacy, by Laura Forlano and Dharma Dailey ¥Suspicious Images, Latent Interfaces, by Benjamin Bratton and Natalie Jeremijenko

100 pages, Paperback

Published November 5, 2008

About the author

Benjamin H. Bratton is a theorist whose work spans philosophy, computer science, and design. He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Director of the Center for Design and Geopolitics at the University of California, San Diego. He is also Visiting Professor of Critical Studies at SCI-Arc (the Southern California Institute of Architecture) and Professor of Digital Design at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.