As you may have noticed, the Computing for Emergent Architecture blog has always been a bit of a one man show. Tom Carden has often been prolific with his posts, but unfortunately he is leaving us for sunnier climes.

We wish him well, but with his leaving it is time to roll up this blog. We will be replacing it with a new roll up of student blogs, so watch this space, but this will be the last post from this feed.

Goodbye, we hope you've enjoyed reading the blog, and hope you'll return to the new page in the future, where we hope to post examples of Processing sketches by the students.

Manchester's technology and music festival Futuresonic is next week. I'll be taking part in the Social Technologies Summit as part of Urban Play. I'm on a panel with Stanislav Roudavski and Matt Webb entitled Iterative Architecture (Built on an Internet of Things):

SMS and low grade media have swept all before them over recent years, with games consoles a lonely ghetto for high end visualisation, but there are now some signs of integration with a resurgence of interest in shared 3D virtual worlds such as Second life. Coming from this background Tom Carden, Matt Webb and Stanislav Roudavski look at how models of behaviour derived from games, anthropology, sensors and mobile devices can feed back into the experience and iterative design of buildings, real and virtual.

Electronic Democracy Spaces
Maybe an alternative proposal for the use of infromation technology and virtual spaces...

2nd International Conference on Intelligent Environmnets IE06.
5 - 6 July 2006, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

An EngD VEIV group project is running a trial today and tomorrow at UCL. Katrin Jonas writes:

We are monitoring the number of people entering and leaving the Bloomsbury café plus observing their distribution within the café area through beam breaking gates and a vision system. Via Bluetooth and wireless network we then send the information to a database. Right in front of the entrance of Gordon’s café we have placed a display, showing the live occupation of the alternative café which is taking the records from the database, again using wireless network. This way we offering information on a remote location at the moment of decision offering information on an alternative choice should the place they are looking at be full.

I'll be visiting tomorrow and will try and post some photos.