Updated presentation as of Oct 16, 2011

1. The problem
Rush hour traffic in Jakarta
MEET DHAKA
Only 1% of people have cars

2. What do we predict will happen
to Dhaka if nothing is done?

3. The problem
4 pm
TRAFFIC JAM
IN JAKARTA
August 2011
Rush hour traffic in Jakarta

4. Can we change the future?

5. DESIGN YOUR CITIES
LIKE YOU GIVE A DAMN
An initiative of the

6. DESIGN CHALLENGE
substantially improve the alternatives to driving in Dhaka
in 3 months or less
An initiative of the

7. DESIGN
YOUR
DHAKA
sexy sidewalks

8. DESIGN
YOUR
DHAKA
critical mass cycling

9. DESIGN
YOUR
DHAKA
car-free zones / days

10. DESIGN
YOUR
DHAKA
making the invisible visible

11. DESIGN
YOUR
DHAKA
the best way to see Dhaka

12. How?

13. 3 INSIGHTS
1 cities don’t innovate as much as they should and when
they do, they don’t share
2 we can seamlessly build effective glocal (global + local)
teams and share knowledge across space and time
3 we can now rapidly prototype physical, digital, and social
designs that address urban scale problems

14. a) the places that need 5 DESIGNED CITY
the help the most at
this time – and b) that
LEVERAGES NEW IDEAS
have a local team that TO REBRAND ITSELF AS 6 OTHER CITIES ADOPT
we can work with A CITY THAT IS SOME OF THESE NEW
LEAPFROGGING INTO EXPERIMENTS
1 IDENTIFY THE CITY and the THE FUTURE
URBAN-SCALE DESIGN
CHALLENGE
law of
unintended
consequences
research, crowdsource ideas
research, from local 4 BROADCAST EXPERIMENTS
research constitutents TO THE WEB WHERE
INVESTORS CAN HELP SCALE
2 BUILD A GLOCAL DESIGN TEAM 1-2 months THEIR FAVORITE EXPERIMENTS
IDENTIFY and REFINE THE BEST
IDEAS that can be RAPIDLY prototypes,
PROTOTYPED including design
files all open-
refine ideas sourced and
with the help freely available
of global to any city
experts
1-2 weeks
3 RAPID PROTOTYPE IN THE CITY
some members of global
team to assist in the local partners to own
rapid deployment of and document the
new ideas experiment’s progress

15. DESIGN YOUR DHAKA
LIKE YOU GIVE A DAMN
Launching January 2012
An initiative of the

16. WE ARE ALL
DESIGNERS
OF OUR CITY
Please contact Albert Ching (mrching@mit.edu)
for more details on how to get involved
An initiative of the