ABSTRACT
This introduction discusses how the book offers a framework for analyzing a wide variety of urban screens: installations, media art, and media architecture in urban public spaces. Each chapter proposes a set of theoretical concepts to understand how such site-specific and situated screens and media surfaces reflect on their surrounding urban contexts and, by extension, on the contemporary condition of urban living. The question driving such an analytical perspective on how specific situated screens work, is critical as well as affirmative. How can the design—as a curation, dramaturgy, and scenography—of urban screening situations foster inclusive engaging and engaged shared socio-material public spaces that are “open” for various forms of mobility, transformation, and generativity?
