Presentation in Split, Croatia, Dec 2012.

1. What Makes a City Smart? :: Interaction
Design and the Future Hybrid City
Michael Smyth
Centre for Interaction Design
Edinburgh Napier University, UK
@michael_smyth
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2. We live in a world where everything seems
possible and as a consequence have lost
the sense of wonder.
Branko Lukic, NonObject, MIT Press (2011)
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3. Where do these moments of
design inspiration come from?
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4. One method favoured by Interaction Designers
is ethnography.
Observation that aims to provide insight into
work, culture and behavioural practices.
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5. A tension between the pressure of solution-focused
design practice and ethnography’s concern with
meanings and culture.
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6. Critical Design acts as a catalyst or provocation
for thought (Anthony Dunne, 1999).
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7. Critical Design challenges our
assumptions and preconceptions about
the role that products and services play in
everyday life.
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8. Street Art (Tom Welsh, 2009).
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9. Video as a way of understanding the design space.
Layers of meaning.
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11. Defining trend for the first half of this
century is the growth of urbanisation.
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12. Today, half of the world’s population,
3 billion people live in urban areas.
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13. How do people interact with technology
in the urban environment?
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14. How do we gather data from the environment?
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15. How does the environment gather
information about citizens?
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16. As pervasive technologies become
increasingly prevalent, will this
change our relationship with the city?
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17. What happens when we have no choice
about how and when we interact?
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18. No such thing as a Smart City.
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19. It is the individuals who inhabit cities
that make them smart.
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20. Individuals as creators and sharers of data.
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21. Yellow Arrow Project (2004)
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22. a cartography of the intimate & the everyday
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23. Walking Path to Avoid CCTV in New York (2001)
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24. Derive App :: Cachucho (2012)
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26. Dead Drops :: Aram Bartholl (2010)
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30. Trash|Track :: MIT Lab (2009)
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34. The Copenhagan Wheel ::
Senseable City Lab, MIT (2009)
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37. Ingress :: Niantic Labs (2012)
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38. AR game that encourages players to input
data about physical monuments.
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39. The hybrid city is characterised by
increasing layers of data.
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40. A human centred approach to Urban
Interaction Design gives the opportunity to re-
think what intelligent connected communities
of the future might actually look like.
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41. urbanIxD :: EU FP7 Coordination Action (2013)
www.urbanixd.eu
@urbanixd
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42. www.michael-smyth.co.uk
www.urbanixd.eu
@michael_smyth
@urbanixd
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