WHAT: Everyware author Adam Greenfield will discuss how the "computer" has begun to disappear into the fabric of everyday life. Relatively little thought has been given to specifically how these changes might unfold at the scale of the city and how the advent of a truly ubiquitous computing will change our urban places - both the way they're built, and the way we live them.

Greenfield's presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with: Christina Ray of Glowlab, a creative lab exploring psychogeography as it relates to contemporary art; Soo-In Yang and David Benjamin of New York architectural practice The Living, and area/code principal Kevin Slavin.

WHO: Adam Greenfield is a writer, consultant and instructor in Urban Computing at New York University's Interactive Telecommunication Program. His 2006 book, Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing, has been acclaimed as “groundbreaking,” “elegant” and “soulful” by sci-fi writer and futurist Bruce Sterling, and “gracefully written, fascinating, and deeply wise” by Wired Magazine's Steve Silberman.

WHEN: Monday, April 9, 2007 at 6:30 pm

WHERE: The Cooper Union, The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue, New York

INFORMATION: 212.353.4200 or www.cooper.edu

This lecture is made possible by the Gerald Philips Lecture Fund and is hosted by the School of Art and the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at The Cooper Union.

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The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a distinguished private college of art, architecture and engineering founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper, an inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. Since its founding, all admitted students have received full-tuition scholarships.

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