Looking at the City with New Eyes: How Could We Make It Better? Dr. Gabriela Avram
Urban technologies p How can digital technologies enhance and augment life in a city? p How can they support active citizenship and community involvement?
Amsterdam Hackable Metropole p 27 Sept 2013, Amsterdam, focusing on the future of media and architecture p Martijn de Waal-3 ways by which new media can influence the urban environment, or how buildings can become ‘interfaces’ ■ Media-architecture (such as urban screens and media facades) can alter the ambience of an environment. ■ Urban sensing – used for either spatial planning or real-time interventions. ■ Media Interfaces http://www.themobilecity.nl/2013/10/17/amsterdam-hackable-metropolis-hot-100-workshop-report/
Media Architecture p Media façades and urban screens
Urban Sensing
Cycle Atlanta Project of the Participatory Publics Lab at Georgia Tech
Media Interfaces
From AR to Hyperreality
Top Down Smart Cities p Two different perspectives: ■ US – technology-centric (IBM, Cisco, Siemens) ■ Europe & Asia –led by governments and motivated by an ambition to build green, sustainable cities p Big Data – generating data at every step p Who uses it? Who has access to it?
Bottom up DIY urbanism p open code, do-it-yourself philosophy and citizen participation p User-centric interfaces and controls p Examples: ■ Fix My Street (.com, .ie) ■ Smart Citizen (a kit containing sensors for measuring environmental indicators and connecting via the online platform Cosm) –FabLab Barcelona ■ DataCitizenDrivenCity- MediaLab Prado ■ Tidy Street- Brighton Source: http://blogs.cccb.org/lab/en/article_intel · ligencia-ciutadana-a-la-metropoli-de-les- dades/
Urban Interaction Design p “Interaction Design, in an urban context, (UrbanIxD) is an increasingly important field of research. City populations are currently in a state of rapid flux. Conurbations are fast becoming a hybrid of the physical environment and the digital world. How we, as physical beings, will connect with, interpret and adapt this increasing dataflow residing in our cities is already becoming a significant research question.” Source: http://urbanixd.eu/about/
Inspirational challenges… Carlos J.Gomez de Llarena Venezuelan media architect http://med44.com http://cityinterface.com/ Reader from the UrbanIxD project Summer School that took place in Split, Croatia in August 2013 http://urbanixd.eu/documents-publications/
Urban Technologies in use in Limerick p Traffic monitoring p Real time bus displays p Water supply monitoring p CCTV cameras p Urban screens p Websites dedicated to local matters p Newspaper & radio stations web presence p Social Media
Past Projects
Interactivos? – Medialab Prado p a hybrid between a production workshop, a seminar and a showcase. p July 2012 – Hack the City: Current and Future Needs – Science Gallery, Dublin p 2014 – Participatory City -how urban media facades as a temporary field of interaction can become a catalyst for shared encounters and a platform for urban activism
Discover Limerick p Android app p Proof-of-concept developed by 3 students p User evaluation in situ
Limerick’s Limericks p 12 points of www.limerickslimericks.com historical interest p Each featuring a plaque with a limerick and a QR codes p Webpage containing historical facts and the limerick
Urban games? p During Design Jam Limerick 2012, a group came up with the idea of a Limerick-based game: the Limerick Domino Effect Hub p Challenges ■ To create a civic culture for Limerick; ■ To help people become proud of our city; ■ To help people who are passionate about stuff to connect to people who are interested in the same things.
Urban Intervention p act or fact of intervening p interference so as to modify a process or situation Meaning / Definition: p Urban Intervention practice in the city can be understood as a participatory act performed to stimulate community involvement in order to create social awareness regarding urban issues.
Categories p Performative Interventions ■ Performance, Participation, Media Art p Social Interventions ■ Making Visible. Social Impact, Re-enacting the Situation p Political Interventions ■ Provocative p Spatial Interventions ■ Architectural, Land Art (according to D.Gangani, Urban Intervention Practice)
Performative Interventions p Abundance | Camille Utterback
Performative Interventions p Usman Haque – Mini Burble
Social Interventions p Usman Haque – Starling Crossing
Social Interventions p Mara Balestrini – Making Sense
Political Interventions p The Pussyhat project
(Digital) Volunteering or Crowdsourcing
Wikipedia
Open Street Map
Ushahidi
Urban Informatics Issues p Technologies for homeless, refugees p Navigating the city at night – “HCI after dark” p Mapping resources like abandoned buildings, spaces for guerilla gardening p Crowdsourcing bus timetables
What next? p Our role as designers – designing for a better, sustainable future p The city as ? (platform, interface, playground) p Communities and local government working together
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