citizen volunteerism and urban interaction design
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This presentation was delivered at Interaction10 in February 2010.TRANSCRIPT
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One sentence version of this (title?)
solomon bisker (@sbisker) / citizen volunteerism + urban interaction designtoday is february 7th 2010
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hi. I’m sol, an interaction designer and computer scientist. I’m interested in using design and technology to reexamine and reimagine shared spaces
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Brescia – Ride Link
my background – software and mobile design for (and alongside, and inside) the city
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what now? tangible computing and technology in our physical communities
source: flickr, rene-germany
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three ingredients for community-driven urban interaction design
advocacy
self-organization
self-productionsource: flickr, makerbot
source: flickr, seattlemunicipalarchives
source: flickr, ivanwalsh
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advocacy and activism
advocacy city-wide values
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urban renewal – rebuilding to celebrate community
source: flickr, yourdon
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urban renewal – maintaining community at the expense of community
source: flickr, mit-librariessource: flickr, mit-libraries
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where to start? look around you
source: flickr, nostri-imago
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holly whyte – an advocate for starting with people
source: Whyte, “Social Life of Small Urban Spaces”
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advocacy – understanding a community’s needs and how government can meet them
source: flickr, adamgreenfield
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self-organization and volunteerism
self-organization community efforts
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creating a digital community to support physical community
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“turn key solutions” – a continuously revisited compromise
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volunteerism – providing essential service and establishing local identity
source: flickr, tom adamson
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extending volunteerism to the digital realm
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top-down meets bottom-up – government-encouraged volunteer communities
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self organization and volunteerism – cities supporting tech the way they do soup kitchens
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open-software, open-hardware and building community technologies
self-production individual tools
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from open software to open hardware…to open infrastructure?
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grassroots efforts at community engagement through open-hardware
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disposable electronics = a willingness to tinker and contribute to the commons
source: flickr, urban_data
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art? or littering? exploring and establishing societal expectations
source: flickr, adam.zethraeus
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self-production – encouraging individual experimentation in a brave new world
source: cnet
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my work – applying these themes to design platforms for public computing
advocacy
self-organization
self-production
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learning from each other - using technology to “democratize” advocacy
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self-organized volunteer engineering, self-production with off-the-shelf electronics
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can people design their own technologies to observe and influence their world?
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…and can more autonomous technologies engage public spaces for them?
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something old, something borrowed, and something new.
advocacy
self-organization
self-production
city-wide values
community efforts
individual tools
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individuals designing self-empowering technologies for use in the places we share
personal public computing
source: flickr, woodsfehr
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personal public computing – interactions that belong to everyone
source: flickr, keren
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One sentence version of this (title?)
solomon bisker (@sbisker) / interaction10 / citizen volunteerism + urban interaction designtoday is still february 7th 2010
thank you
you can reach me at: [email protected] / twitter: @sbiskerwww.biskerrific.com
cheap plug: www.cmu.edu/mtid
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Extra slides
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cambridge systematics – applying design to institutional thinking and planning
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failed top-down applications of technology to societal problems
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Image: cdsphotos.com
17 more to gowhere is the line between a city and a community?
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1 more to gohypothesis (and hope) - cities have to have faith……new design methodologies can reinforce community trust and dialogue
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Pitti-Mobi(diagram? Mirja shot?)
16 more to gopitti.mobi - hybrid physical and digital interaction design for social spaces
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15 more to gounderstanding a community - delicate interactions for delicate situations
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14 more to golesson - embrace space as a design constraint, not a design problem
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12 more to goecowearables – making sustainability part of one’s physical identity
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11 more to goecowearables – creating a personal, public identity
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10 more to gogroupshare – using serendipity and technology to reshape brescia
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lesson – encourage digital volunteerism like we encourage soup kitchens
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this is me – aspiring interaction designer slash computer scientist…
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8 more to gobatosi – building tools that leverage political responsibility and passion
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7 more to golesson - no two bureaucracies are the same…nor should they be
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concern – data overload leads to data misinterpretation 5 more to go
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3 more to go”arbitrary” openness can redefine a community’s expectations
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2 more to gotradeoffs– interaction design patterns as vocab for dialogue about identity
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18 more to go…slash urban planner? reexamining and reimagining our communities
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18 more to go…slash urban planner? reexamining and reimagining our communities