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<p>Dear Shama,</p>
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<p>I am fascinated by your discussion of time, flow, and space in urban environments. This is especially interesting to think about over the course of the past year, as trajectories within and between urban spaces have altered and paused during the many lock
downs. I wonder about the tempo of the non-place spaces in city (like Marc Auge writes about) - the places in which people mostly just pass by or pass through. When those spaces are so slowed or even emptied, as during lock down, does it change them from non-places
into spaces? </p>
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<p>I'm sorry the video of my Augmenting the City Together talk was missing. It looks like the conference folks had changed some links. I've managed to upload a copy via my website now:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.rebeccarouse.com/talks.html" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk686090">http://www.rebeccarouse.com/talks.html</a><br>
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<p>The talk shares thoughts on embracing the playfulness in cities, and using augmented reality technology in co-design processes to reveal hidden or under-examined histories in cities. In terms of thinking about time and flow, the AR application has the potential
to introduce the type of flow-based interaction of games, but also the potential to provide a defamiliarizing effect through the layering of other times/spaces into physical space, maybe even the potential to give a bit of a sense of time travel. But unlike
VR (virtual reality) the effect is not immersive, but rather one of accretion or layering, that is intended to build on the already immersive environment of the city itself. </p>
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1. Week 4 | Flow and Real Time in the Urban (Shama Nair)<br>
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Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 14:32:23 +0000<br>
From: Shama Nair <shama@bicar-india.org><br>
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Hello everyone,<br>
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I?d like to thank Renate and Patrick for sharing this space with me. I?ve been following the exchanges here with great fascination and I?m happy to share my response to this month?s theme of Flow, Impulse, and Affect in Real Time.<br>
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I?ve always been deeply fascinated with our relationship with cities and architecture, and now, under Rohit's mentorship at BICAR, I?m forming my research interests in urbanism and critical theory more concretely. Keeping in mind the theme of our discussion,
I?d like to think through and hopefully hear some of your reflections about?the temporal experience of the neoliberal metropolis or ?smart-city?. I?m thinking about Flow in terms of movement (eg. ?flow' of traffic).<br>
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Often, we find ourselves describing a city with reference to its ?pace? - eg. a city I?ve known for a long time, Dubai, as ?dynamic, fast- paced, accelerated?. These words, through rampant advertising, quickly form the meta-narrative of the city on an international
platform and we tend to internalise a lot of this too, even if it?s at odds with the way we experience our day-to-day, on ground. Does this conditioning impede our ?impulses? as city-dwellers?<br>
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As for individual experience of??real-time?: How might two strangers experience time while moving from the same point A to B - where on the vertical axis of the city?s architecture do they live? Street level or in an apartment complex? How fast are each of
their elevators? Do they have to take the stairs? Do they have to wait for a cab or bus or walk to the metro station? Do they drive? Do they carpool? Do they try to avoid tolls? How does the constantly shuttling between online and offline shape our perception
of time??How do these different time-maps coexist and how do they create conditions for alienation??Whose experience is privileged and why?<br>
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This may be slightly unrelated but perhaps someone else may be able to make a more cohesive link to our theme ? but, I also find interesting the lexicon of time and what cognitive linguists might have to say about the way ?fast? words (quick, brisk, speed,
accelerate, and such) shape our individual behaviours and experiences in late capitalism. Along similar lines, Researcher & UCL Professor Mathew Beaumont in his book?The Walker: On Losing and Finding Oneself in the Modern City?(Verso, 2020) talks about how
our pace influences the way we experience the city on foot. To quote:<br>
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?Brisk?, a word which first crops up at the end of the fourteenth century in the Old Welsh form brysg, ?used of briskness of foot?, as the OED states, implies industriousness, purposefulness, busy-ness. In short, it means business.?<br>
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?People?s most ordinary mode of perambulation was reshaped by the discipline of capitalism. Business required busy-ness, briskness.?<br>
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?Hurried or brisk walking, to polarize rather crudely, marked one?s subordination to the industrial system; sauntering or wandering represented an attempt, conscious or unconscious, to escape its labour habits and its time-discipline?<br>
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Here are just some of my opening thoughts but I aim to return with some refined reflections on??flow and impulse? soon.<br>
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Dear Rebecca, thank you for sharing your thoughts on Flow and Real-time in Pandemic-time, I really enjoyed reading your post. I also came across the??Augmenting the?City Together? Keynote for??Game of Cities: Culture, Participation, Democracy? on your website
but unfortunately, the Youtube video is unavailable. I?d love to learn more and perhaps think about your work in?urban studies in relation to our theme.<br>
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