Cookies
Cookies are text files with small pieces of data—like a username and password—that are used to identify your computer as you use a computer network. Specific cookies known as HTTP cookies are used to identify specific users and improve your web browsing experience. In the context of urban planning and design, a cookie is a small item or feature that provides a pleasurable, individualized experience. These “cookies” are also called city comforts, delicate details, memory points, and micro-experiences. In an urban environment, these include drinking fountains, wayfinding, public art, and many other small design elements that make life more enjoyable.
Easter Eggs
An Easter egg is a message, image, or feature hidden in software, a video game, a film, or another—usually electronic—medium. In the context of urban planning and design, an Easter egg is a message, image, or object hidden in the public realm that is meant to be discovered intentionally or accidentally. These “Easter eggs” include hidden environment controls, micro-graphic design, miniature public artworks, optical illusions, Trompe-l’oeil, and many other hidden design details with a sense of discovery and humor.
Message in a Bottle
Summer and Fall 2023 Green Cities students participated in a public art activity related to sense of place and discovery, Easter eggs, and urban design. The “Message in a Bottle” public art project final report will be online first quarter 2024.
Message in a Bottle December 17, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Font
Summer and Fall quarter Green Cities students selected and/or designed more than 100 icons related to artificial intelligence. These icons were converted to font characters and the Artificial Intelligence font is free for personal use.