[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The first hint of something specious is this guy is writing commentary about
neocolonial UCD on a word processor for an old world journalism rag, instead
of secluded in a design studio reading spatial news listservs, playing urban
simulator/junior policy analyst games, or evaluating high value urban
systems integration scenarios for big bucks clients.
Nothing like Penn justifying its branding efforts using its own hack,
without full disclosure. And, much shame on this local rag, City Paper, for failing
to perform due diligence, when publishing commentary.
what struck me odd about the article was how it seemed so
'second hand' -- as if the author didn't actually encounter
any of the stickers himself, and was only retelling a
selection of opinions that had already been aired here. for
one thing, he gets the words of the stickers wrong (they
don't say "university city is just a marketing scheme", they
say "university city is a marketing scheme"). and we've all
read how similar his speculations were to ones made here a
while ago. and where does one even see these stickers
anymore? they all seem to be gone.
the article reads like belated 'damage control' or post
spin, as though it was placed, for the record, rather than
written as a spontaneous timely reaction to something
actually ongoing and visible, and which readers could
respond to. it feels more like an old skool, top-down pr
approach to community engagement, not like any of our
current interactive/online horizontal models of exchange.
in the absense of any local gazebo [ROSS!], we'd do well to
look more closely into our available public squares -- where
they're located, whose participation means sharing, whose
participation means controlling. meanwhile, we'll be dealing
with stickers and big painted bridges, with listservs and pr
machines, with public parks and not-so-public park groups...
..................
UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
[aka laserbeam®]
[aka ray]
SERIAL LIAR. CALL FOR RATES.
does anyone know who actually painted the bridge? who asked
for it? who designed it? who approved it? who paid for it?
until we do, it's just as anonymous as the stickers. and
after all, it's our identity that's at stake.
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