Neo-nomad is simply moving to this address: http://blog.neo-nomad.net, as I am converging the blog with my website: http://neo-nomad.net...

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To soothe the transition, I am hoping that http://neo-nomad.kaywa.com will stay up!

I look forward to hearing from you!

Yasmine

Image taken by Jérôme + Éléonore

La carte postale reste incontournable : elle peut survivre longtemps, collée sur le réfrigérateur ou épinglée sur le mur de son bureau, quand les messages sur les portables sont souvent effacés en quelques secondes... D'ailleurs, les inconditionnels de ces bristols illustrés sont les collectionneurs, qui les achètent, les classent, les échangent et les vendent. Alors qu'on ne connaît pas de collectionneurs de SMS...

Enfin, moi je les collectionne les SMS… J’hypertexte aussi pour tomber sur une définition de la maximaphilie... Serais-je atteinte de nomadophilie, alors que je collectionne le rien, l’éphémère, le fonctionnel (avec une tendance spéciale à justifier l’ornement comme nécessaire à son bien-être)?

Osuna's box trays are used to hold plants in customers' cars. We saw them as a consumer touch point and provided a brief (albeit entertaining) message to encourage recycling.

Simultaneous thinking or not, it is good and flattering to see that I have fostered a field of inquiry on its own, and that the neo-nomad wording/thinking spreads, though I mainly speak about psycho-socio-cultural aspects and spaces. I look forward to read this article.

As I wrote in a reply to Bill Thompson after discovering his BBC article, In Search of the Neo-nomad, I have been working on the neo-nomad since the time I was enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1999. The title of my MIT thesis (MIT, 2001) is Embodiment: Mental and Physical Geographies of the Neo-nomad. Since, I wrote many articles about neo-nomads, some for Ubicomp conferences… I also graduated from Harvard with a Doctor of Design, which title is: Neo-nomads: Designing Environments for Living in the Age of Physical, Digital and Mental Mobilities (Harvard, 2006). I opened my research blog much later in 2005… Thanks to Jerôme Chevillat and Roger of Kaywa, my words have spread to the point of peaking to 722 visits a day for the month of June 2007!

My book, Neo-nomads, is coming soon... patience!

Anyway readers, for your information, here is a list of relevant publications, interviews and talks I gave around the world on neo-nomads:

Forthcoming publication “Environnements néo-nomades, système écologique ?” in Synergies Pays Riverains de la Baltique n° 4 (2007)

Wrote with Vaucelle, C. and Abbas, Y. 2007. Touch: sensitive apparel. In CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, CA, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM Press, New York, NY, 2723-2728.

Video-conference discussion: City in Flux: Eco-Mobility? with Dr. Ben Croxford, Lecturer MSc Environmental Design and Engineering; intended to students enrolled in the Master of Science Adaptive Architecture and Computation program, Digital Space and Society module taught by Ava Fatah gen. Schieck, The Bartlett, London, UK, January 22, 2007 . Event hosted by Critical Digital at Harvard GSD

Presented my up to date research on neo-nomads to students enrolled in Digital, a class taught by Michael MacPhail at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, November 1, 2006

Interviewed by Rudy de Waele for m-trends.org, Women in Mobile # 16, September 23, 2006

Wrote TAXICITY-TOXICITY in JCDecaux, Mobilités: la Clé des Villes (St-Amand-Montrond, Clerc: 2006) p. 98-99 and Interviewed William J. Mitchell on the Paris Bus Line project in collaboration with the RATP; both contributing to a prospective reflection on cities initiated by the Chronos Group, Observatory of Chronomobility . JCDecaux presented the book of trends at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, June 2006

Gave a Lecture to students enrolled in the Master of Science Adaptive Architecture and Computation program, Digital Space and Society module taught by Ava Fatah gen. Schieck, The Bartlett, London, UK, November 14, 2005

Presented and debated with Nigel Thrift and Ranjit Makkuni at Ci’Num, the Digital Civilizations Forum: Conquests and Conflicts, forum “dedicated to the future of the digital revolution and designed to evaluate its social, cultural, and economic impacts”, Bordeaux, France, October 8, 2005

Interviewed by Pierre Tillinac for Sud-Ouest, the second daily French regional newspaper with a circulation of over 300.000 readers; interview entitled “Quand Les Mobilités Changent Nos Vies” = When Mobilities Change Our Lives, published October 3, 2005

Wrote “Parasites?” (Paper presented at the “Metapolis and Urban Life” workshop, UbiComp2005 Conference, Tokyo, Japan, September 10-11, 2005) and was selected to participate in the interactive 2 day workshop

Presented “Neo-nomads and the Making of Boundaries in the Age of Mobility” (Paper presented at the Mobile Geography, Presidential Choice Session, SASE2005 conference, Budapest, Hungary, July 1, 2005) . BTW, this is when and where I have met John Urry who is the mind behind the Mobilities Journal, where the article spotted above was published!

Wrote “Neo-nomads and the Nature of the Spaces of Flows” (Paper presented at the “UbiComp in the Urban Frontier” workshop, UbiComp2004 conference, Nottingham, UK, September 7, 2004) and was selected to participate in the one day workshop

Wrote “Expression of the Edge” (Paper accepted for publication, and presented at the ACSA Odysseys conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, February 22, 2002). A post MIT Thesis reflection on neo-nomads...

I figured that it might be very difficult for you reader to make sense of all the bits and pieces of information, from art to technology. But think about the blog as a convergence of disciplines… As I often say and write, and thank you to Deleuze and Guattari for their inspiring thinking, what gives matter to things is not only the parts, but also the assemblages, what is in-between…

Fritz Lang’s black/white masterpiece Metropolis projected onto the wall of the last historical industry building at the Harbour of Copenhagen to music of the ground-breaking avant-rock band, Art Zoyd.

Experience the Metropolis Biennale opening with the ultimate cult film that provided endless discussions and became implemented on the world political arena. Fritz Lang’s black/white Metropolis film will be shown in city parameters on the outer wall of a massive storage tower in Copenhagen harbour – a building that is going to be demolished in due course.

“Metropolis will have no equal”, said the master of movies, Luis Bunuel, after the premiere in 1927. The ground-breaking French avant-rock band Art Zoyd accompanies the film with their minimalist installations and compositions created specific for this film.

Fritz Lang’s masterpiece experienced on a massive screen accompanied by live music is a unique cocktail you won’t forget. (Metropolis website biennale)