Hybridization, fusing, melting, coalescence and salmagundi

Ubiquitous computing leads to the fusing of the digital and the physical. The talk will present some projects that exemplify this trend and focus on the underlying question caused by this hybridization: how technologies reshape our relationship to space and place through projects and examples.
The point would be to show that certain technologies make explicit phenonemons which are invisible or implicit (pollution, people's behavior, etc.), how the online interactions can be reshaped by physical activities and how the physical interactions can be restructured by activities in digital realms.
Ubiquitous computing applications, pervasive games, social systems are all concerned by this phenomenon and in the end it's less a matter of "augmented space" or "controlling the digital via physical activities" but really the fusing of the material and the digital.

The presentation will conclude about why this is important, what are the implications and what we can expect.