Volume 7 marks the end of Ubiquity, weaving a thread through 50 years of Leonardo, the Balance Unbalance Conference series and an immersion in ecologies, domestic things and quantum states. This is the final Volume of Ubiquity Journal of Pervasive Media. Ubiquity will be published as Journal of Pervasive Media from Volume

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3–16: Architectural paradox in the smart home – ALEXANDER ĆETKOVIĆ Abstract Bernard Tschumi pointed out that architecture redefines itself continuously out of the conflict between it being a product of abstract design and the condition that architecture is experienced sensually – conditions that are interdependent and, at the same time,

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Leonardo: A ‘mind space’ in transit – CHRISTIANA KAZAKOU Abstract This ultimate Archaeology celebrates the legacy of Leonardo, an idea that became a Journal that developed into a global transdisciplinary community. The author reflects on the last half century of innovation in the practice of art and science that has

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Lab report: Balance-Unbalance. Ecology and citizenship – RICARDO DAL FARRA Abstract It can be difficult to acknowledge our own fragility. The equilibrium between a healthy environment, the energy our society needs to maintain or improve its usual lifestyle, and the world’s interconnected economies can pass more quickly than expected from

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Ubiquity, an end piece – MIKE PHILLIPS & CHRIS SPEED A little synthetic autopoetic GPT-2 (OpenAI 2019) summary of Ubiquity, the Journal of Pervasive Media, volumes 1–7, might look something like this: 1 ‘‘‘ 2 # Load Model 3 print(‘ubiquity_vol1-7=True’) 4 A smart paranoid thing of magnitude and the consequences

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Ubiquity will be published as Journal of Pervasive Media from Volume 8 (2020). ISSN 26338785 , ONLINE ISSN 26338793 Journal of Pervasive Media is the new title for Ubiquity. The title change will come into effect from Volume 8 (2020) The Journal of Pervasive Media is an international peer-reviewed journal for transdisciplinary researchers and practitioners engaging with

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Editorial Over the last four years the editors have been interested in tracing how the art, design and technology community have responded to the advent of all things blockchain. From the rise and fall of the Bitcoin currency to the explosion of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), creatives have been quick to develop theoretical

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Three Articles: The three articles begin with an investigation into the use of blockchain for the charity sector as Elsden et al describe how different design methods provide insights into the uses of a technology that at the time, was looking for a problem to solve. Plessas’ personal glossary of

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Furtherfield Manifesto Furtherfield is one of the longest running nonprofit international hubs for critical explorations in art and technology. Since we started in 1996 we have developed an international reputation for initiating experiments in artistic participation and collaboration across digital networks. We have continued to invest time and energy in

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Michel Bauwens is the co-author of the upcoming report P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival: Towards a P2P Infrastructure for a Socially Just Circular Society on how shared perma-circular supply chains, post-blockchain distributed ledgers, protocol cooperatives and three new forms of postcapitalist accounting, could very well save the planet. He is

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