Eric Paulos
Biography
Eric Paulos is a Research Scientist at Intel in Berkeley, California where he leads the Urban Atmospheres (http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/)
project—challenged to use provocative methods to understand the future fabric
of our emerging digital and wireless urban landscape. Eric received his PhD in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California,
Berkeley where he researched scientific, and social issues surrounding internet
based telepresence, robotics, and mediated communication tools. Eric has
developed several internet based tele-operated robots including, Mechanical
Gaze in 1995 and Personal Roving Presence devices (PRoPs) such as Space
Browsing helium filled tele-operated blimps and ground based PRoP systems
(1995-2000) (www.prop.org).
You can find my personal homepage at
www.paulos.net.
Position Paper
The city has always been a site of transformation: of lives,
of populations, even of civilizations. With the rise of the mega city, however; with the advent of 24/7 rush hours; with the inexorable conversion of
public space into commercial space; with the rise of surveillance; with the
computer-assisted precision of redlining; with the viral advance of the
xenophobic, the contemporary city is weighted down. We dream of something more.
Not something planned and canned, like another confectionary spectacle.
Something that can respond to our dreams. Something that will transform with
us, not just perform change on us, like an operation. We seek to understand how
our future fabric of digital and wireless technologies will influence, disrupt,
expand, and be integrated into the social patterns within our public urban
landscapes.
We seek urban-scale projects for which the city is not
merely a palimpsest of our desires but an active participant in their
formation. From dynamic architectural skins to composite sky portraits to
walking in someone else’s shoes to geocaches of urban lore to hybrid games with
a global audience, we desire projects that transform the “new” technologies of
mobile, social, pervasive computing, ubiquitous networks, and locative media
into experiences that matter.
“Let us embrace the full scope of urban life with all of its emotions and experiences”
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