Hi Felipe,

thanks for your feedback! What you describe is definitely part of the juggle of 'definition'. In this case, the unit - house - which should act beyond a simple functional unit as a 'home' would be created in a relatively 'docile' social environment. The emphasis, at this point, with this 'example' or experiment, would be to look at functional social/environmental issues surrounding relatively straightforward living scenarios. Those, however, include designing for as broad a range of contexts and environments as possible (the most functional and efficient being those of some of my former colleagues in Addis Ababa). So the discussion here is also critical for helping define what that could be as a postulate, vision or design environment.

cheers,

stephen

On 11.03.2012, at 17:56, Felipe Fonseca wrote:

> Just echoing here... reflecting on an "IOT House" can mean ifferent things depending on the understanding of what a "house" is. Some cultures tend to see the house as a kind of safe haven in terms of privacy. How that relates to networked things is an interesting question. Also, parts of the house have a kind of porosity that can inform the whole IOT thing. OTOH, the very idea of house carries a lot of biases about social dynamics - the house as habitat for (especially middle-class) family, the building block of industrial societies. How can different social arrangements enabled in part by networked technologies (but much much more heavily by changes in society in the last decades) can provide guidelines for the redefinition of what a house is? What kind of porosity of both information, goods and people will a more adequate construction of places for living require? How does that relate in first place with broader issues such as urban violence, housing deficit, waste management and relationship with different social groups and in second place with the very sense of "community" (what does that mean btw?).
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> Also, open source city is another theme I am very much interested into. Stephen, please let us know how that evolves...
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