Frēstyl: Simplifying the Process of Promoting and Discovering Local Live Music

In this paper, we present a new service for web and iPhone for promoting and discovering live music, frēstyl. We will show how frēstyl addresses and attempts to solve the problem that emerging musicians, local promoters and small/medium venues face when publicizing their events, both on a local and global level, and the problem that music fans face when trying to gather a complete but not overwhelming understanding of local and global live music events

Living the urban experience: Implications for the design of everyday computational technologies.

This dissertation addresses the challenges of designing computational technologies that are used in a variety of everyday occasions. Specifically, it focuses on urban computing, the study of, and design for, the experience of inhabiting and traversing urban environments. Using a phenomenological perspective to approach lived urban experiences in terms of their situated aspects and the ways in which they are understood by both designers and users, this dissertation seeks to create a categorisation of urban life that reflects its richness while reducing its complexity, in order to guide the design of new everyday computational technologies. The dissertation will show how such a theoretical standpoint leads to a study of researchers and designers directly engaging with a variety of urban experiences - waiting in public places in London, being in transitional spaces in Orange County, visiting public toilets in Amsterdam and commuting by the London Underground - through fieldwork and design. The hermeneutic phenomenology-inspired analysis of the data collected from such activities will support the emergence of a new categorisation of urban life called "in-between-ness". This categorisation reflects the tensions proper to the urban experience, and acts as an actionable tool for reflection, which identifies both sites for design - awareness, engagement and legitimisation - and potential design approaches to those sites - integrate with, mirror and alter. This dissertation will conclude with a discussion of the ways in which this new categorisation of in-between-ness presents a starting point for researchers to reflect on the variety of trends emerging within urban computing, and inspiration for the design of new everyday computational technologies

In-Between Theory and Practice: Dialogues in Design Research

Why Wait? and Betwixt are two of the workshops we have recently run on the theme of in-between-ness. The approach of social computing, where researchers work to understand how the socio-cultural aspects of human life relate to the design of new technologies, was the starting point for our investigation. By observing actual instances of in-between-ness in context we explored how design activities can be used as an opportunity to discuss and take positions on a specific theme, and as a space for narrowing the gap in design research between theoretical and practical thinking

Musica dal vivo: coda lunga, eventi last-minute e i nuovi servizi digitali

Nell’ultimo paio di anni si è parlato di una crescente crisi del mercato della musica dal vivo; sono usciti per esempio in Italia articoli che annunciavano una diminuzione della vendita dei biglietti per i grandi festival come l’Heineken Jammin’ e l’Italia Wave

Political Science

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