Soft City Culture and Technology: The Betaville Project
discusses the complete cycle of conception, development, and
deployment of the Betaville platform.
Betaville is a massively participatory online environment for
distributed 3D design and development of proposals for changes to
the built environment an experimental integration of art, design,
and software development for the public realm. Through a detailed
account of Betaville from a Big Crazy Idea to a working "deep
social medium," the author examines the current conditions of
performance and accessibility of hardware, software, networks, and
skills that can be brought together into a new form of open public
design and deliberation space, for and spanning and integrating the
disparate spheres of art, architecture, social media, and
engineering.
Betaville is an ambitious enterprise, of building compelling and
constructive working relationships in situations where roles and
disciplinary boundaries must be as agile as the development process
of the software itself. Through a considered account and analysis
of the interdependencies between Betaville's project design,
development methods, and deployment, the reader can gain a deeper
understanding of the potential socio-technical forms of New Soft
Cities: blended virtual-physical worlds, whose "public works" must
ultimately serve and succeed as massively collaborative works of
art and infrastructure."
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