in New York in 1853 something happened that
changed the history of cities
such as we are known forever
places
this the exhibition of the industries of
all nations this great building of
crystal and responsible this man is
possible that his name sounds in liza
Grace otis against what some may
think
otis did not invent the elevator the elevator
in fact it is a thousand-year-old invention
first reference the to the idea of a
machine that allows us to ascend and
download a structure is from archimedes
but teese and it was an essential invention a
innovation that could present in the
international exhibition of
industries the brake the brake that
it allowed the elevator to be safe
that if it collapsed nothing will happen and
in his presentation he showed people
that the future of cities does not
only elapse horizontally
but increasingly more up
the elevator becomes at that moment
in new elements that give it life that
is in the essence of the city of
20th century until the era of the elevator
the cities are characterized by a
topography where people with more
resources low life and the poorest
live up
the invention reverses the relationship already
from that moment the views
tall plants are the ones that convert
in more precious but above all the
elevator change the cities
belt became much denser and to the
seeing it more dense made them more
diverse
a few decades after otis
invent the elevator that extends
for all the big cities of the world
in detroit in 1908 a new invention
exchange rates and definitely the
shape of the city and that the city of
20th century
is of course he formed from the pti the
first automobile for everyone the
first automobile produced in series to
a price that allows it to reach
of a lot more people and the car
becomes a way to open the
distance between the place of residence
instead of work and return the
limits of the city something very much
more porous and this one
that the forte inaugurates the era of
automobile that transforms the city
of the twentieth century in a space
much wider in which for a
side we gain space but on the other hand
we lose our sense of community and
course also inaugurates another was the
Jam was the era that puts
city at the service of the automobile was
that makes the car more
important that the citizen who captures
a lot of public space and that pollutes
its air was defined from some
way by slavery towards the
automobile as the center of the city
we are in 2017 we have 17 years of
21st century and probably soon to
know what technologies will change the
21st century city in the same way
in which the car and the elevator
they changed that it was glacial 20th century
but I think we already know some things
we know that there are for example two
technologies are less visible that are
much smaller some
directly are ethereal that are
changing towards the 21st century
a beautiful one knows very well because I am
almost certainly the vast majority of
you 30 am and I was wearing it on the
pocket or in a bag
I’m talking of course they march is
incredible to think that it is March only
is 10 years old and has already
become such an intimate object that
it is the most personal objects that pass
more time physically attached to
us but also the smartphone is
possible by another invention by another
innovation that is actually more
important and that is the result of
much more time throughout the
last two decades we have been creating
a great tangle around the planet
whole formed by cables and waves
electromagnetic that connects us to
some with us
the connectivity that mana from heaven
upon us which satellites
gps system we send our
position of the wifi networks that we
allow us to connect to the internet from
airports of libraries of the
mobile phone antennas that are
over the rooftops of the city by the
that we walk and that connect us
permanently to a line of
mobile phone even if we are in
movement and even the cables
submarines that fill the bottom of the
ocean through which our
photos our songs our
personal messages
the smartphone is the first thing you see a lot
people to get up in the morning and löw
what he sees when falling asleep that is in many
cases also a technology that
alters our sense of reality and
that we also new senses
when we are in the space of
smartphone
we are in the place where we are
but we are also at the same time in another
place
we carry a bubble around us and
that bubble connects us with other people and
our other is easy is the
smartphone in some way such form the
physical sense of reality that we
surrounds
but it has also transformed things from
very determinant way in the era the
smartphone we are no longer with someone
one hour a site so
unchangeable because we are in
permanent contact with that someone is
a process of permanent renegotiation
we no longer need to know a neighborhood to
find a pizzeria even without
need to ask someone not
we need to raise our hand to stop
a taxi because it is possible that they are exhibited
spends already know us and indeed
where are we going to the smartphone
also definitely by in our
pocket a map of the entire world a
map with such a degree of detail that only
in first moss would occupy 45 kilometers
from one end to the other and for the first time
in the history of cartography by
first time in the thousands of years of
history of the maps on that map
we appear we are the blue ball
blinking but of course also
not only connects us but also
disconnects and sometimes isolates us
be in a space surrounded by people already
the time we disassociate ourselves from them as
technology when it emerges during a
time we are babbling with her
we are learning to walk with her and
we do things wrong and we have to engage
a social conversation process of
negotiation to better understand their
potentialities but also that
that makes us feel maybe less
comfortable for the city however for
the city as a reality you the
strongest impact of these
March technologies connectivity
it has to do with the capacity that it has
to help us coordinate and
collectively do things even with
people we do not know on a scale that
it was unthinkable
it’s exciting to talk about this to fishing
its meters from one of the places
essential for the 21st century city
40 people at the end of a
manifestation at the door of the sun it
They put together a tweet on account
twitter and two days after those 40
people are ten
thousand people and those 10,000 people
they are sharing something in general and
they create a community that at the same time unites
with people from the city and from all
world
this is a photo of the summer of 2011
they are people in the great way the two of
the morning they have decided to cut the
street turn it into a space for a
assembly in the 21st century
the smartphone and connectivity do not
It is doing so we can schedule
spaces and turn them into spaces
reduce and transform them like this every
Once more we find coffees that
they are not coffees in the era of economics
digital many people work in a cafe
because the separations between his life
staff and his professional life among
them and work are increasingly
porous a car can be transformed into
a taxi and sometimes at that time and
that your driver does not want without need
of being painted in colors and wearing a
oak light or a house can become
on specific days in a hotel
these changes of course generates many
tensions that generate tensions and
dangers for those who are displaced
and see how their professions
traditional are threatened by the
emergency of a model that
harms and maybe they do not understand by
neighbors who see how their neighborhoods
they go from being communities to becoming
in tourist ghettos without anyone
I asked for permission without knowing how
can stop it in every process
emergence of a technology there is a
social negotiation process and
politics
there is a space that we have to define
what do we want to promote and what
is what we want to preserve what we have
done many times before along
the last two centuries
we will have to do it again but that
the notion is not going to change the function
essential connectivity as a way
towards programming the city until that
mutant city more and more the city
is reprogramming its new spaces
technologies that come close to us
the next years
also as a consequence of the
connectivity will reinvent completely
this city towards a city that
we will recover spaces that we had
lost those are autonomous cars the
cars that are capable of driving be
themselves and that will allow not
we need cars that are 90% of the
time standing because these things can
be in motion all the time by
so we can recover spaces that
we had lost and converted as it happens
increasingly in cities spaces that
they had been snatched in new
public spaces
this is times square in new york the
plaza more
and chronicle of the city of which already
is disappearing cars is
becoming a new space for
all citizens
experiments that also allow to create
new forms of coexistence between
citizen transport these are the
supermanzanas in barcelona a project
innovative in which nine apples
recover the tragic to do in the
center of the four crosses of the center
four public places and these four
squares become new parks
in spaces where people come together
practice sports or do yoga
even the programmable city of some
way is the city consequence of
decide how we want to use the
potentialities of the smartphone and the
connectivity to recover spaces that
we had lost and we can
program in many ways I can
schedule in time for example I’m
is a raging dance party that
celebrates in Helsinki every year
for one day a year
anyone can set up a restaurant
that day any person and only
during the 24 hours you can assemble a
restaurant in the streets of helsinki
this is that its plus is a new kind of
bus in which the meetings of
bus the stops change all the
time people get on the bus
choose the stops you want
go down and those that do not and the bus change
your route in real time in some way
Bus stops can also be
be mutant and very close to us a
more time
Latin barrier in barley field
barley of madrid a project of
international reference in which the
users decide what the
space can be in every moment
sometimes a summer movie theater is sometimes a
track to practice sports is sometimes
a park where people meet and in
the furniture the furniture is
can move and change places because the
Sun gives on the square in places
different depending on how the
year one of the fundamental people
to understand the history of the 20th century and
his influence the 21st century rejected a
Mr. Fuller many decades ago
I thought this is insane that the
typewriters norman beautiful
buildings while there are people who sleep
in shacks our beds are
empty two thirds of our time
rooms are empty seven eighths the
time our offices are empty
half the time it ‘s time that
let’s think a little about this in the
crossroads in the passage of the 20th century to
21st century in the emergence of the era of
the connectivity
we are able to start forging
a new model of city a city
mutant as he had dreamed that
chacón mister future
and I invite you all to think how
we want to change this city so that
be more our more livable and more
shared thank you very much
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