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Smart Cities: Interactivity, Art & Technology.ZOOM SMART CITIES 2016

Being smart is being able to quickly adapt to changes in the ecosystem.WHAT IS SMART?Bill BuxtonPrincipal Researcher, Microsoft

ST. MARK SQUARE, VENICE 2012

Great interactionbuilds great experiences.At EDIGMA we look very closely to all new forms of communication and are often inspired by art that is able to generate new and unexpected relations between existing infrastructure, the surrounding context and its dwellers. MAKE IT INTERACTIVE

Conceived as a dynamic, interactive landscape, Impulse responds to how it is used, allowing the public to complete the work. The seesaws form repetitive units of light and sound that can be activated and played by the public to create a temporal, ever-changing event.

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IMPULSE, MONTREAL 2016

We need to think beyond technology to engage and motivate communities.TECHNOLOGY IS NOT ENOUGHTheres a huge infrastructural component which is part of the smart city definition but an even bigger part is perhaps the social and experience capital generated for and by the people of that city towards achieving their objectives.

OSAKA, JAPAN 2011Since 2011, the Kingyobu collective has reprocessed and reinstated old phone booths in Osaka as urban aquariums filled with squirming, live goldfish.

For most of us,design is invisible untilit breaks, untilit fails.GOOD DESIGN IS SEAMLESSBruce MauMassive Change, 2004

FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI, 2011The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was an energy accident at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, initiated primarily by the tsunami that was triggered by the Thoku earthquake on 11 March 2011. The damage caused resulted in three nuclear meltdowns and the release of radioactive material.

Cities are now aiming to reach a very sophisticated level of control.A WORLD FULL OF SENSORS: A GOOD IDEA?Britain has aCCTV cameraforevery 11 people.Source: The British Security Industry Authority (BSIA)

DRONE AVIARY, 2015The Drone Aviary - an R&D project from The Superflux Lab - is an investigation of the social, political and cultural potential of drone technology as it enters civil space. Through a series of pieces the project aims to give a glimpse into a near-future city co-habit with intelligent semi autonomous, networked, flying machines.

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People are reacting to life in increasingly monitored environments.POWER TO THE PEOPLECCTV cameras and facial recognition algorithms are some of the technologies fueling the debate.

BANSKY, LONDON 2008an enormous protest against Britain's surveillance society painted just feet from a CCTV camera.

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CVDAZZLE.COMCV Dazzle explores how fashion can be used as camouflage from face-detection technology, the first step in automated face recognition.Since facial-recognition algorithms rely on the identification and spatial relationship of key facial features, like symmetry and tonal contours, one can block detection by creating an anti-face.

Apply ICTs to support citizen engagement in the transformation process.WHAT CAN BE DONE?Technology can help citizens enable themselves and their communities and in this transform their cities from the bottom up.

ASPIRE News appWhile the front page functions like a regular news app, when you go to the Help section of the page it provides a list of local domestic violence resources and a Go Button, that, once pressed, alerts the users chosen contacts, local authorities and service providers about the violent or potentially violent situation.

Participatory processes and new ways to connect data, people and knowledge.HOW CAN IT BE DONE?Create conditions that can lead to significant empowerment of those who at present have little control over the forces that condition their lives and their cities.

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ZOOM SMART CITIES 2016