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The Responsive City

http://www.theresponsivecity.org/

‘The Responsive City’, TReC [2008] is a network of designers, artists and scientists with loose ties who live in Amsterdam, Istanbul, Cairo and London. Our work falls into the cross-section of architecture, urban design, planning, game design and governance. We develop city games to generate design and planning scenarios.

Common interest of the network is perceiving cities as self-organizing systems. Cities are always subject to processes where simple realities end up in complex urban situations regardless of specific political and socio-economic conditions. Shrinking cities of Eastern Germany, growing informal settlements as in Accra or Buenos Aires, mushrooming gated communities at the peripheries of Istanbul are all subjects of systems theory.

As TReC, we have been developing a special eye for analyzing such open and complex urban systems. We not only analyze but also propose strategies and tactics to deal with such urban processes.

Currently we are forming the PLAY the CITY foundation to make space for researching and applying city design games in the real-time making of cities. Precise application of new media and social networks are an inevitable part of this process.

Kaleidoscope Fractal Animation - some visual and aural inspiration

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2011/03/fte_20110310_0830.mp3 please listen to ABC podcast from 9.30

IBM City One - Real Worl Game Real World Impact

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/solutions/soa/innov8/cityone/index.html

CityOne: A Smarter Planet gameThink you know what it takes to make the energy systems that serve a city more efficient? Given the opportunity, could you make the city’s water cleaner and more plentiful, its banks more robust and customer-centric and its retail stores more innovative?

See fantastic video from IBM video 'Decade of the Smart'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLvPsZVaIfk

We are living in a time of turbulent change, putting pressure on businesses of all sizes and across all industries. The world is also changing, in other fundamental ways. It is becoming smaller, flatter and smarter.

As a result, leaders across all types of enterprises are faced with new challenges in order to remain successful. Those organizations who address these challenges are best positioned to outperform in the "Decade of Smart."

6 Ways to make a smarter planet

Organizations are overwhelmed with data. On a smarter planet, the most successful organizations can turn this data into valuable insights. With advanced analytics, you can open new opportunities for business optimization by enabling rapid, informed and confident decisions and actions.

In a slow growth environment, organizations must do more with less. To succeed, your organization must drive continuous and sustainable operational improvements to lower costs and reduce complexity.

On a smarter planet, change is the only constant. The most responsive and agile firms—supported with innovative business models and processes—will be positioned to lead their industries and surpass their competition.

Innovation comes from collaboration. And collaboration comes from everywhere. Firms that embrace the power of social technologies will unleash the productivity and innovation throughout the entire value chain—from employees to partners to suppliers to customers.

Torrent Network connections and DNAudio introduced