Thomas Brushwood

Sense and the City

A picture or two from London Transport Museum’s current exhibition, Sense and the City. The exhbition is amazing, well worth a visit, particularly if your field has anything to do with technology, or you just a nerdy streak. I’ve been twice in the last week for something like over 5 hours… Lots to see. I need not say more.

Posted 2 months ago

The exhibition was fantastic. One section includes a live project with the RCA discussing transport solutions in 2020. The student projects were interesting and well thought out, and very relevant to the topics I’m covering. I’ve already discussed Alice Moloney’s Discover Your Borough here, but other projects to mention are:

The Window: Turning CCTV into a window in the London Underground network. The CCTV footage from underground platform is projected overground on station entrance while footage from overground is projected underground. This tackles community by transforming a symbol of authority into a platform of communication between the people. By Leena Kangaskoski and Ana Minguez

Augmented Wayfinding: Intergrating social networks, dynamic content, augmented reality displays and touchscreens into London’s wayfinding system Legible London. Its question is how can we share personal knowledge of the city with others? The answer is an interactive and socially networked wayfinding system that combines review sites and user reviews into the user’s experience. Not only can you use any information point to find anywhere you’re looking for in London, you can also see whether it’s any good. By Michael Lum

tombrushwoodfmp:

This map shows hotspots in the amount of Oyster card uses in London.

A new exhibition has opened up in London Transport Museum: Sense and the City. It looks at the use of new technology in London, particularly smartphone use, and it’s effect on us. As it grows in popularity in the near future, we will need to be able to measure, control and assess its affect on us in order to understand it fully.

Sense and the City @ London Transport Museum

Sounds like a great exhibition, I can’t wait to go.

Reblogged 2 months ago from tombrushwoodfmp

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A Talk With Matthew Shannon

I spoke with Matthew Shannon about the project’s progress a couple of days ago. A very brief summary of the things I picked up I’ve listed below. Still to come are a great number of research sources that have been suggested to me, including various cities around England and their respective community projects, and already available tools designed for connecting people together. I’ll post these over the weekend.

About the idea:

It’s separated itself from community. Focus on an area like Hackney and show people the real human sides to the business. E.g. in Hackney there’s a wine shop that encourages punters to bring their own bottle to fill up.
A good idea will be able to be a commercial idea, so don’t focus on that aspect. The commercial aspect will come from creating something sellable to businesses and free to customers.
Focus on a smaller area and really nail it: You can’t improve community if you don’t know it. I think I need to learn all I can about local community projects. The problem with London is there are so many separate communities. Getting them to blend is the key.

Seriously though, enough talking. It’s time to show some pretty graphics of already existing projects!

Posted 3 months ago