Looking at the City with New Eyes: How Could We Make It Better? - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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?
p How can digital technologies enhance and
p How can they support active citizenship and
p 27 Sept 2013, Amsterdam, focusing on the
p Martijn de Waal-3 ways by which new media can
■ 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/
p Media façades and urban screens
Project of the Participatory Publics Lab at Georgia Tech
p Two different perspectives:
■ US – technology-centric (IBM, Cisco, Siemens) ■ Europe & Asia –led by governments and motivated
p Big Data – generating data at every step p Who uses it? Who has access to it?
p open code, do-it-yourself philosophy and citizen
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
■ DataCitizenDrivenCity- MediaLab Prado ■ Tidy Street- Brighton
Source: http://blogs.cccb.org/lab/en/article_intel·ligencia-ciutadana-a-la-metropoli-de-les- dades/
p “Interaction Design, in an urban context,
Source: http://urbanixd.eu/about/
Reader from the UrbanIxD project Summer School that took place in Split, Croatia in August 2013 http://urbanixd.eu/documents-publications/
Carlos J.Gomez de Llarena Venezuelan media architect http://med44.com http://cityinterface.com/
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
p a hybrid between a production workshop, a
p July 2012 – Hack the City: Current and Future
p 2014 – Participatory City -how urban media
p Android app p Proof-of-concept
p User evaluation in
p 12 points of
p Each featuring a
p Webpage containing
www.limerickslimericks.com
p During Design Jam Limerick 2012, a
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.
p act or fact of intervening p interference so as to modify a process or
p Urban Intervention practice in the city can be
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)
p Abundance | Camille Utterback
p Usman Haque – Mini Burble
p Usman Haque – Starling Crossing
p Mara Balestrini – Making Sense
p The Pussyhat project
p Technologies for homeless, refugees p Navigating the city at night – “HCI after dark” p Mapping resources like abandoned buildings,
p Crowdsourcing bus timetables
p Our role as designers – designing for a
p The city as ? (platform, interface,
p Communities and local government working