IO DENCIES environment, which focused on diverse international urban environ- ments, in this instance the megacities of Tokyo and Sao Paolo, facilitated collaboration and the emergence of insights about urban processes. Its system represented the forces of the city visually via live Internet data and let remote participants intervene directly on the representation:
By using special tools (“attractors”), Internet users may intervene in these force fields. Every modification in these zones changes the flows, and these interventions are displayed immediately. However, users see not only the changes and consequences of their own interventions, but also the interventions and desired changes effected by other users “working” in the same hypothetical urban area. In this way, users may gain a deeper insight into the complexity and inner connections of networked, connective agency.