120217 what are social cities of tomorrow

What Are

Social Cities

of Tomorrow?

Martijn de Waal www.themobilecity.nl

Wait-a-minute:

Where are all the people?

http://scodpub.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/garden-cities-by-ebenezer-howard/

It’s not a blueprint;

It’s a design approach

a way of thinking about cities

that are highly technological

but they’re not about technology

they are about people

‘If only we can get to an architecture that really responded to human wish as

it occurred’

Peter Cook, Archigram

‘There is no desire to communicate with everybody, only with those whose

thoughts and feelings are related to our own’

Archigram

If only we can get to cities

where citizens feel they belong,

and feel the city belongs to them as well?

How do we design for ‘ownership’?

Social Cities:

Designing for ‘ownership’

Engage and empower

‘publics’ (groups of people)

to act on

communally shared issues

Engage and empower

‘publics’ (groups of people)

to act on

communally shared issues

communally shared issues & resources

(Open) Dataas a new

collective resource

Trash Track MIT Senseable City Lab

Senseable City Lab Trash Track

Using The Internet of Things

To bring out these‘issues of concern’

Bringing ‘Issues’ back in Public Space

In the Air (Medialab Prado)http://intheair.es/

Engage & Act

CoCollage

http://www.cocollage.com/

Create a Sense of Place

Making individual contributions visible

Cisco Urban EcoMap

http://ams.urbanecomap.org/?locale=en_US

Engage through play

Commons The Game

http://www.commonsthegame.com/

Biketastic

http://urban.cens.ucla.edu/projects/cyclesense/

Fallen Fruit

http://www.fallenfruit.org/

Publics

‘collectivising’ private resources

Collaborative Consumption

http://collaborativeconsumption.com/

‘networked public’Geluidsnet

http://collaborativeconsumption.com/

Social Cities of Tomorrow:

Engage and empower

‘publics’ (groups of people)

to act on

communally shared issues

Engage and empower

‘publics’ (groups of people)

to act on

communally shared issues

How do we design Social Cities?

Can we port the collaborative principles of online culture to

urban design?

What are new models for organizing various stakeholders

around complex issues?

What are new models for collaboration between

disciplines?

Thank you!

Further Reading:

www.socialcitiesoftomorrow.nl

‘Ownership in the Hybrid City’

www.themobilecity.nl

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