Architecture’s primary role of authoring space is called into question by the ability of citizens to perform spatial relations in ways other than traditional design thinking. Devices like the Google phone (open source _ Android) and apples ipods/iphone are enabling ordinary citizens to take a more effective role in shaping the placing and spacing of the urban experience. In effect, these devices have become tools for organizing and negotiating, space, time and boundaries. We are increasingly finding information processing capacity embedded within and distributed throughout the material fabric of everyday urban space (WIFI, 3G, Bluetooth, GPS, open and closed, regulated and unregulated systems).

What distinguishes the emerging urban sociality enabled by mobile technologies and wireless networks? What post-optimal design strategies and tactics might we propose for an age of responsive environments, smart materials, embodied interactions, and participatory networks? How might this evolving relation between people and "networks and frameworks" alter the way we occupy, navigate, and inhabit the city?