links for 2008-05-29

• Uselog – product usability weblog
  (tags: blog design usability interaction interactiondesign delft)
• The Skateboard, The City, and Socio-Spatial Censorship
  via http://www.blackbeltjones.com/work/ : “Skateboarders have encountered a politics of space similar to the experiences of the homeless… [they] occupy urban space without engaging in economic activity of interiors, to the annoyance of building owners a
  (tags: skateboarding discriminatory architecture architecturesofcontrol control politics urban urbanism)
• Juan Freire – From the Analogue Commons to the New Hybrid Public Spaces – we make money not art
  “Many people are horrified by the fact that knowledge flows continuously. They wouldn’t have any qualms about electricity flowing around us freely but they find the idea of a never stopping flow of information highly disturbing. They would like to be able
  (tags: freire urbanism urban architecture information future public commons anticommons regine)
• Jan Chipchase – Conducive Surfaces
  “Surfaces invite interaction. To what extent are designers responsible for the interactions they induce?”
  (tags: chipchase surface interaction interactiondesign architecture affordances urban)