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August 4, 2011
The Revival of Mental Maps

Recently, a team of students from the School of Information at University of California in Berkley, working on their final master project, enlisted the help of San Fransisco residents to find out how people see vs. imagine their city. The purpose of this research? To discover whether an age old process in planning, such as Mental Mapping can be combined with today’s digital mapping tools tools (ie: GIS ) to create a balance of accuracy and precision, truth and objectivity using unconventional combinations of techniques and imagination that comes from access to “local' knowledge of any respective place.

June 13, 2011
NYC Mobile Tech Salon

Join MobileActive.org for June's Mobile Tech Salon focused on mobile data trails. Are they useful for social good or do they compromise the privacy and security of individuals? Mobile Tech Salons are a regular gathering of people passionate about mobile technology for social change. Bring your projects, passions, tools, and conversation!

Mobile data (and the way it's stored, transmitted, and used) has been a hot topic in the news recently. Questions about location tracking and data collection have many mobile users wondering about privacy and security.

But mobile data can be beneficial as well. Cities and towns want to use mobile data to improve social services, and social benefit organizations believe our mobile “data exhaust” could be used to alert us to slow-moving crises in vulnerable populations.

Find out answers to your questions:

January 17, 2011
Augmented City 3D

The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape, more and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise; an immersive interface may become as much part of the world we inhabit as the buildings around us.

Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

January 17, 2011
Augmented City 3D

The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape, more and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise; an immersive interface may become as much part of the world we inhabit as the buildings around us.

The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape, more and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise; an immersive interface may become as much part of the world we inhabit as the buildings around us.

October 23, 2010
Where Good Ideas Come From
September 9, 2010
Manor Labs

It’s not often that one is able to use the words ‘research and development’ when describing new initiatives within their local government.  If you’re one of the lucky 6,500 people living in Manor, Texas, research and development just entered a new era.  This small community on the outskirts of Austin has partnered with Stanford University’s Peace Dot Project to create Manor Labs, the official research and development division of the City of Manor.

It’s not often that one is able to use the words ‘research and development’ when describing new initiatives within their local government.  If you’re one of the lucky 6,500 people living in Manor, Texas, research and development just entered a new era.  This small community on the outskirts of Austin has partnered with Stanford University’s Peace Dot Project to create Manor Labs, the official research and development division of the City of Manor.