Interactive mechanisms would be given out in the form of a modular kit of parts, each containing four input mechanisms along with four outputs. These set-ups have been selected to yield long-term benefits, while awarding city dwellers with the instant gratification of an interactive urban fabric. In opposition to the deliberate assigning of these mechanisms to specified areas, their placement is in the hands of the city dweller, who is more readily able to assign them to places of necessity.

INPUTS

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Microphone/Recording drive Nuvoton ISD1700 chipcorder

Code

The input/output board uses an intermediate processing language which is incredibly

easily picked up an manipulated. Here is an example of the most basic code.

int ledPin = 13; // LED connected to digital pin 13

// The setup() method runs once, when the sketch starts

void setup() {

// initialize the digital pin as an output:

pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);

} void loop()

{ digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH); // set the LED on

delay(1000); // wait for a second

digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW); // set the LED off

delay(1000); // wait for a second

}

I. Input:Motion Output:Illumination

I. Input:Gas Detector Output:LED Matrix

I. Input:Microphone Output:Chipcorder

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an app that never falls asleep

two scripting/processing adventures

a maritime messenger company

two remodeled offices in downtown detroit

a desktop agricultural experiment

a trend-bucking competition entry

a sparse-urban mapping exercise

a junkyard shelter creation

two approaches to illumination

an essay on mcdonald’s and hipsters

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“Wake Up!” / gopalkrishna sharma / Computer Science Engineering, BSE 2010 / http://umich.edu/~gopalkri/

“Yanni” / Nick Senske / [degree phase] // zunheng lai / UG03 / http://reas.com/

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“rouse_D” / chris johnson / UG03 / http://chmijoss.blogspot.com

“Detroit Analysis” / david theisz / UG03

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[vol 1.] what’s inside:

“Don’t Stop Believin’!”

“If you’ve been in Ann Arbor long enough, you know that the buses can take forever to get from place to place. You’re also probably sleep deprived most of the time. Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could just doze off on the bus and not have to sleep in fear of shoot-ing past your stop? Yep, that’s exactly what “Wake Up!” does.”

McDonalds corporate strategy is based upon the notion of power. According to their corporate

pod-casts “McDonalds USA is operating from a most definite position of strength.” As a way

to gain market share from Starbucks, McDonalds is positioning itself to become what it calls

“a beverage destination”. This strategy of power has been with the company for many years,

and therefore has been with us just as long. The McDonalds birthday party is a day of power

and indulgence; to consume, entertain, desire, and celebrate all the while wearing a crown. As

McDonalds has sown its seeds deep within our collective memory it has grown and evolved

along with its consumers needs and wants.

More recently McDonalds has launched the Dollar Menunaire campaign. According to the ad

agency’s website,

“McDonald’s Dollar Menu lets you eat like a hero for not a lot of money. But getting a good

deal isn’t just about saving money once in a while; it’s about a lifestyle. The Dollar Menunaire

lifestyle.”

The latest iteration of the campaign is The Reality House, which I would argue is one of their

most culturally complex projects on McDonalds.com. This advertising campaign strategically

articulates a collective cultural memory of gen-x through y as those who watched the birth

of reality TV shows, most notably MTV’s The Real World, which first aired in 1993, and is now

in it’s 21st season. The McDonald’s reality house adopts a similarly conflicting mix of people

representing larger cultural identities defined by stereotypes. Paul the Menunaire is the main

character, who is socially omniscient and steeped with a nonchalant confidence.

Looking closely at the character profiles, one quickly learns of the carefully composed

personalities of each member of the house. The housemates reflect past MTV real world

personalities, as well as generalized stereotypes held collectively in America’s consciousness,

like Farida the quintessential “Goth” or Ben, who is the passive, sensitive “emo-artsy” type that

likes Robert Rauschenberg, and spends his time decorating high-end boutiques, according to his

profile page.

Paul, the Menunaire, is a cultural hybridization of social constructs the creators mashed up to

form a complex interplay of stereotypes that leaves the viewer amused, but also empathetic.

Paul is culturally omniscient, and plays off of a societal fear of categorization that is clearly

illustrated through reality television shows. To view MTV’s Real World from home as an

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