It's been written by two of the contributors to Liftlab, Nicolas Nova and Fabien Girardin, who are both "designers methodically searching for processes and interaction within the urban environment". They both look at how understanding people could help in the design of future technology, particularly this notion of urban/ubiquitous computing.
On Girardin's blog I found this old post on Mapping Urban Computing. It depicts the image below, which was created by Karen Martin. I could really relate to the image, and saw how my own interests fall into this diagram. I wonder how I can make sense of it all, and find out how I can tie everything I'm interested in into a project.
I realised that Karen Martin had worked with Giles Lane in the past. Giles had come to IMD during my 3rd year, I think, to talk about his work with Proboscis.
I did a bit more digging around on Urban Computing, and found this article on Bruce Sterling's blog, where he mentions The Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series that "explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism: How are our experiences of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics, and other “situated” technologies?"
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