This project hit a personal interest for me because I am currently working with the topic of the modern day city and I am reading the book Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino, which is the name sake of the project. Invisible Cities, created by Christian Marc Schmidt and Liangjie Xia, maps information that ” reveals social networks present within the urban environment.”  The project was developed in Processing and uses “realtime mapping” of  Twitter and Flickr updates to display the change in densities and geography social interactions within the city that we otherwise would not see. It will be interesting to see what applications this data may be applied to in the future. My mind first jumps to tracking, but it could also be interesting to survey this information after a long period of time to see how our interactions in this “Invisible City” change.

Invisible Cities (alpha) from Christian Marc Schmidt on Vimeo.