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Urban Interaction Design Luoning Zhang Yueting Ji Manoj Bonnke

Quick Activity: Balloon Tower Form 2 groups of around 5 people each. ● Make a balloon tower as tall as possible by using just balloons and some ● sticky tape within 5 mins . The balloon tower must be unsupported and freestanding after 5 mins. ● The team with the tallest balloon tower wins! ●

Collaboration Planning Power of Many

One Efficient Solution 1. Inflate and tie each balloon so all balloons are approximately the same size. 2. Tie the knotted ends of balloons together in pairs. 3. Twist one pair of balloons over another pair at the knots so the balloon structure becomes a set of four to make basic layer. 4. Continue making similar structures and layer them atop each other.

Urban Interaction Design Urban Interaction Design revolves around the interaction of human beings with their urban surroundings . It is about providing citizens with ways to make their everyday urban experiences more pleasurable, interesting, productive and efficient. It’s a multi-disciplinary field and is not limited to the planning and building of cities.

Urban Interaction Design In order tackle the complex urban problems of networked society, people working in one particular discipline have started to incorporate the methodologies and approaches of formerly separated domains or institutions who work in the domain of urban interaction design. URBAN (coming from a focus on societal issues) ● INTERACTION (coming from a technology background) ● DESIGN (coming from an interdisciplinary arts tradition) ●

Urban Environment Elements Usually, good urban environment is essential to create good urban design, so urban environment always be identified by 5 elements: Buildings ● Buildings are the most pronounced element in urban environment. They shape and articulate space by forming the street walls of the city. Public Space ● In the public space, people can come together to enjoy the city and each other, they make the city have high quality life. Squares, Parks and Plaza etc. all belong to public spaces. Streets ● Streets always connect spaces with places, the dimension and size always be defined by the places they connect.

Urban Environment Elements Usually, good urban environment is essential to create good urban design, so urban environment always be identified by 5 elements: Transport ● Transport connect the part of city and help to shape them, include road, rail, pedestrian way etc. Landscape ● Landscapes are the green part of the city, landscapes always help to define the beauty of the city and create the comfortable and soft environment.

The Role of Technology What has changed in the last decade is the widespread usage of the internet. With it comes the availability of all sorts of data about urban life, ranging from air quality to traffic congestion. This data for example, is being used to improve services like easing traffic woes and making public transport more efficient. Innovations like blockchain, IoT, AI, Machine Learning and autonomous vehicles are slowly changing the way people work, communicate and travel , etc. This opens up a lot of opportunities for potential application to real world issues.

Dynamically Transparent Window A dynamically transparent window responds to the movements of people passing by. Passers-by are tracked by a camera, and the data is processed by a system that controls custom-built, interactive windows in a facade.

Interactive Shop Window The interactive shop window is compatible with plasma, LED, LCD, projection or reprojection screens. Shop owners can also link the system with existing software such as content management or merchandise information systems, enabling access on the display to all stock within the store. The proposed interactive shop window differs from existing touchscreen technology by using a series of cameras to generate two stereo or 3D images that are processed by visualization software to control the display

Uniqlo Cubes Clothing Store Cubes made of translucent plastic, they attract evening visitors to investigate by revealing the colorful glow of the clothing inside.

The Danish Pavilion EXPO 2010 The Danish pavilion balanced digital art, urban design, and architecture. The enormous media facade attracted visitors, and reflected the human activity inside the construction, where people were able to view the Little Mermaid while walking or bicycling on the internal paths.

How are cities formed? People were mainly nomadic hunters and gatherers before the first cities were founded. The development of agriculture and the domestication of animals, however, allowed people to stop roaming and settle in one place - the city. Some cities were formed by virtue of being located on trade routes/ports with the marketplace coming into prominence. Others were formed as the center of a kingdom or government. Walled cities were common back then due to war threats. Main Factors: Good sources of water, Land to grow food, Marketplace, Safety

Cities vs Villages What advantage do cities offer? The GDP from cities is nearly 70% of the total GDP in a country. It’s more economical to have resources concentrated in a central location for a large number of people. The city is more networked in terms of resources that people need and person to person connections.

Challenges facing cities today Healthcare Drastic air pollution levels Poor existing infrastructure Garbage Crime Housing shortages Traffic and transportation

Water Shortage in Cape Town

Overcoming these Issues 1. Better Governance 2. Co-design 3. The Opportunities that Technology offers 4. Community Driven Initiatives 5. Creative Thinking

01 Better Governance Most of the taxes paid by citizens go towards improving public infrastructure and services. The government and policy makers play a massive role in how cities develop and are managed. Good urban governance is about managing cities in a way that enables citizens to exercise their rights and perform their duties, while providing them with a fostering environment in which to live and work. It requires transparency and its essential that they communicate with citizens appropriately, keep them well informed and actively involve them in local negotiation and decision-making processes.

02 Co-Design Collaborative design is an approach where the users are involved in the design process. The process enables a wide range of people to make a creative contribution in the formulation and solution of a problem. It’s important to have this participatory design approach because cities are not just about concrete buildings and skyscrapers - it’s also about the people who live in them. By involving citizens and other stakeholders in the process the city becomes open to more ideas and involvement in the decision making, than if done by architects alone.

The Stakeholders in Urban IxD Urban planners Architects ICT consultants Government Urban anthropologists Citizens Economists HCI researchers Businesses Designers Environmentalists

Tinder for Cities New digital tools are helping to make the urban planning process more transparent, inclusive, and interactive for citizens. Santa Monica, California, is testing out a Tinder-like app that allows pieces of its forthcoming urban plan, from murals to street furniture, to be evaluated by the public by allowing them to swipe left if they oppose it or swipe right if they support it. Another example: On the “Kiez-Karte.berlin” map people can enter their own urban design requests : Let’s add a zebra crossing here, a traffic light there, a garbage can over here, or a playground in this particular spot.

03 The Use of Technology 55 billion IoT devices by 2025, up from about 9 billion in 2017. Mobile phone usage crossed 5 billion users in June 2017 AI and Machine Learning (Eg: Autonomous vehicles) Virtual Reality and AR slowly becoming more mainstream. Blockchain is at a nascent stage, but has the potential to disrupt many industries.

Sidewalk Labs Sidewalk Labs is an urban innovation organization. Its goal is to improve urban infrastructure through technological solutions, and tackle issues such as cost of living, efficient transportation and energy usage.

04 Community Driven Initiatives Shared public gardens in unused lands ● Unused lands in cities are temporarily converted into open public gardens where nearby residents can grow and harvest food. Open Street Fest ● Certain stretches of roads are closed for vehicles on holidays and are used as public spaces for arts, craft, games and flea markets. Car-pooling ●

Hacking the City This is a voluntary movement involving making small DIY improvements to urban living. ● It’s about creative disruption that aims to transform ideas, spaces, and buildings and ● tackle themes such as street art, surveillance, dead space, and how we can positively interfere with the very fabric of the city. Benefit : No longer need to wait for the councils/governments to offer opportunities. ● Eg: Balloon sensor project where large, sensor-equipped balloons were designed to ● visualize a city’s pollution levels across the sky, to be visible from far away – when the air is very clean, the balloons remain white; once pollution rises to high levels, they turn red.