Foursquare Map for Leidse Square ‘Entertainment Area’ in Effect

Finally got around to go the AUB Ticketshop at Leidse Square during the daytime to view the Foursquare Display we setup in action (previous blog post).

A video of the screen:

The screen in context:

It is a welcome refresher from the static posters and the static videos that usually litter these high profile locations. The foursquare coloured view of the area is always fresh and shows a view on the local flavour and the people that visit the venues around.

From an urban development point of view it may be odd to draw more attention to the already highly crowded Leidse Square area. But it comes to reason that new developments such as these will be tested on high density locations first. We would be very interested to create augmentations in public space to make locations in Amsterdam’s periphery more appealing.

Video of The Rising Tide of Data

Watch Alper give a broad sweeping introduction on the field of data at a recent Mobile Monday Amsterdam:

Video for Civic Duty

The previous video for Civic Duty in a Hyper-Connected World was somewhat poorly accessible because it is locked in a HVA courseware environment. The Club of Amsterdam has graciously provided the raw video which we converted and uploaded to Vimeo.

Sound is not completely in sync, but this should serve as a nice narrative accompaniment to the slides posted here before:

Civic Duty in a Hyper-Connected World from Alper Çugun on Vimeo.

Video of Club of Amsterdam Presentation

The video of my recent presentation for the Club of Amsterdam (slides and notes) has been posted to the HVA site. Find it here (start at index: 44:30): The Future of Hacking

Working on releasing it in more formats.