Category: Urban Planning

Design Fiction Futures for NYC Libraries

Dec 13, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in City Planning, Community, Design, Design Fiction, Urban Planning, Web/Tech

I have long been a fan of design fiction to frame what the deployment of a design idea looks like after it has been created and is in use. I have used this quite a few times in my own work over the years. But, seeing great examples of design fiction in public isn’t a…
Urban Planning to Social Business: Social that Scales

Mar 14, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in City Planning, Community, Complexity Lenses, Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd, Urban Planning, User Experience

Overview In November of 2011 Gordon Ross and I presented What Urban Planning Can Teach Us About Social Business Design at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara (the presentation is loaded at the end of this post). I was excited about the presentation as it was a great opportunity to place the foundations of…
Cooperation, Coordination, and Competition

Jan 12, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Community, Complexity Lenses, Enterprise, Location, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd, Urban Planning

There has been a lot of discussion of late in the social media circles about cooperation and how all social tools and services and their managers need to embrace that model. What is really clear is they have never run or tried to run social environments at any scale that have a broad representation of…

Category: Urban Planning

Design Fiction Futures for NYC Libraries

Urban Planning to Social Business: Social that Scales

Cooperation, Coordination, and Competition