Surveillance is becoming the omnipresent and ubiquitous element dreamt by sci-fi novelists and writers. What is the influence of urban surveillance and control upon our understanding and experience of space? As urban beings, how do we behave under the constant surveillance of other people, the State and the market? Does this change the way space and place are perceived, built and experienced by us?
These and many other questions bear in mine and other colleagues minds, who wonder what are going to be the implications of the escalating use of surveillance and methods of control for places, for space and for our cities.
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André posted on his carnet de notes about a very interesting project called Urban Mobs, which alledgedly maps people's emotions in European cities. Quoting their official website: "Urban Mobs provide a tool to study crowd communication activities and paint a popular emotion cartography".
Of course that D-tower and Urban Mobs have their similarities in the way relational concepts are applied (with the aid of technologies) to depict, question and think through spatial manifestations. But, essentially, they do it and happen in different scale. I would say they both have similar ideas, one at the building (or architecture) scale, and another at the urban or regional (or global) scale.
