Excerpts to be found on ISSUU.
Books
Néo-nomadisme : Mobilités, partage, transformations identitaires et urbaines (FYP Editions, 2011)
“Mobilization: an investigation of Barack Obama Presidential Campaign and Peer-to-peer Identity” in Abbas, Y. and Dervin, F (Eds.) Digital Technologies of the Self (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009): pp. 85-106
“Les néo-nomades sont-ils immortels ? La mort en réseau” in Dervin, F. and Abbas, Y. (Eds.) Technologies numériques du soi et (co-) constructions identitaires. (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009): pp. 104-120
“Environnement néo-nomades, système écologique ?” in Fred Dervin et Aleksandra Ljalikova, Regards sur les mondes hypermobiles: Mythes et réalités (Paris, L’Harmattan: 2008): pp. 19-36
Journals
Abbas, Y. and Osseo-Asare, Dk. “Polychromy in Ghana’s Mobility Market” in New Geographies 03: Colors. 2010: pp. 8-11
“Masdar Takes a Pulse” in Volume 23 (special edition): Almanakh 2 (The Netherlands: Stiching Archis, 2010); p. 244-245
Conferences
“Neo-vernacular/Non-pedigreed Architecture : Design Authorship and Expertise at the Time of Participatory Culture and Crowdsourcing” in Terzidis, K. (2009) Who Cares(?), Second International Conference on Critical Digital, Harvard Graduate School of Design; pp. 145-151
Abbas, Y., Huang, J.-E., Konomi, S., Roussos, G. “Pervasive Shopping Workshop: Shop / I don’t need help, I’m just browsing!” in Pervasive 2009, the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing held May 11-14, Nara, Japan.
“Parasites?” (Paper presented at the “Metapolis and Urban Life” workshop, UbiComp2005 Conference, Tokyo, Japan, September 10-11, 2005) + participation to the interactive 2 day workshop. http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/UbiComp2005/
“Neo-nomads and the Nature of the Spaces of Flows” (Paper presented at the “UbiComp in the Urban Frontier” workshop, UbiComp2004 conference, Nottingham, UK, September 7, 2004) + participation to the one day workshop. http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/UbiComp2004/
“Expression of the Edge” (Paper accepted for publication, and presented at the ACSA Odysseys conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, February 22, 2002)
Theses
Neo-nomads: Designing Environments for Living in the Age of Mental, Physical and Digital Mobilities, Doctor of Design Thesis, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2006.
Embodiment: Mental and Physical Geographies of the Neo-nomad, Master of Science in Architecture Studies Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001.
Future Trends
“Morceaux Choisis de Ville” in JCDecaux, Mobilités: Les Audiences dans la Ville (2008): p. 60
“TAXICITY-TOXICITY” in JCDecaux, Mobilités: la Clé des Villes (2006): p. 98-99 + interview of William J. Mitchell on the Paris Bus Line project in collaboration with the RATP; both contribute to a prospective reflection on cities initiated by the Chronos Groupe, Observatory of Chronomobility.
Internet
LeMonde.fr – IBM Supplément Partenaire –
→ Les écotones, ces espaces de travail néo-nomades.
→ Masdar City, la ville verte au pays de l’or noir.
→ Pour un néo-nomadisme écologique.
Building Space With Words –
→ avatars and hypertexts.
→ (dis)place.
→ why can’t we get past the Situationists?
→ is home a spatial matter?
→ encompassing.
→ distributed spaces.
