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Smart CitizensMaking Sense

Frank KresinResearch Director

@kresin / [email protected]

Smart Appliances

Smart Assistants

http://www.pixedge.com/lastmoment

Smart Cities

Smart Citizens

Smart Citizens•Will take responsibility for the place they live, work and love in•Value access over ownership, contribution over power•Will ask forgiveness, not permission•Know where they can get the tools, knowledge and support•Value empathy, dialogue and trust•Appropriate technology, rather than accept it as is•Will help the people that struggle with smart stuff•Ask questions, before they come up with answers•Take part in design efforts to come up with better solutions•Work agile, prototype early, test quickly, start all over•Will not stop in the face of huge barriers•Continuously share their knowledge and their learning

http://waag.org/nl/blog/manifesto-smart-citizens

Agency

• Institute for Art, Science & Technology

• Since 1994, 63 Staff, based in Amsterdam

• Artistic Research, Critical Design & Social Innovation

• Exploring emergent technologies & opening them up

Waag Society

http://www.waag.org/

Creative Care

Creative Learning

Future Heritage

Future Internet

OpenDesign

OpenWetlab

Research Labs

Code = Culture

http://www.techshop.ws/TheMakerMovementManifesto.html

Critical Engineering Manifesto1. Critical Engineer considers Engineering to be the most transformative language of our

time, shaping the way we move, communicate and think. It is the work of the Critical Engineer to study and exploit this language, exposing its influence.

2. The Critical Engineer considers any technology depended upon to be both a challenge and a threat. The greater the dependence on a technology the greater the need to study and expose its inner workings, regardless of ownership or legal provision.

3. The Critical Engineer raises awareness that with each technological advance our techno-political literacy is challenged.

4. The Critical Engineer deconstructs and incites suspicion of rich user experiences.

5. The Critical Engineer looks beyond the 'awe of implementation' to determine methods of influence and their specific effects.

6. The Critical Engineer recognizes that each work of engineering engineers its user, proportional to that user's dependency upon it.

https://criticalengineering.org/

Fablabs, Wetlabs, Maker Spaces

http://fablab.waag.org & https://waag.org/en/lab/open-wetlab

More than just Spaces

Laboratory Workshops

Exhibitions Performances

Waag Society - CC-BY-SA 3.0

Urban Environmental Challenges

http://www.eea.europa.eu/media/newsreleases/air-pollution-still-causing-harm

Official Measurement Stations

National Measurement Network

http://www.lml.rivm.nl/meetnet/index.php

IAAC Smart Citizen Team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R90fsItpzT4

https://smartcitizen.me

Smart Citizen Kit

Participation

Environment Technology

https://smartcitizen.me

Visualisations

http://waag.org/en/project/smart-citizen-kit

Lessons Learned

• Thorough issue mapping is needed

• From sensing to action is challenging

• Sensors need improvement

• However, this is not about accuracy

• Citizens love it

http://waag.org/sites/waag/files/public/media/publicaties/eindrapportage-sck-asd.pdf

Smart Citizens Lab

https://waag.org/en/project/amsterdam-smart-citizens-lab

SenseMakersAmsterdam

Empower people to:

• Acquire, Read & Manipulate Data

• Understand their environment

• Turn data and insight into action

• Using public networks of low cost, open source sensors

Resulting in:

• Better informed, more engaged citizens

• Impactful dialogues between citizens and governments

• More data, more insight, better policies

• More enjoyable, social, inclusive, healthy & livable cities

Methods

https://publiclab.org/

From Needs to Knowledge

A reference framework for

smart citizens initiatives

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AMSTERDAM SMART CITIZENS LAB

LAURENCE HENRIQUEZ NATASHA DE SENAFRANK KRESIN

TOWARDS COMMUNITY DRIVEN DATA COLLECTIONA PUBLICATION BY WAAG SOCIETY & AMS INSTITUTE

author editor editor

https://waag.org/en/news/amsterdam-smart-citizens-lab-publication

https://www.waag.org/en/project/making-sense

How to join?

How open are you?

1. Problem Definition2. Research Strategy3. Tools & Sensors4. Data Acquisition5. Interpretation

Labs (Fab-, Maker, Wet-, Citizen)

Use & Promote Open Technologies

Enable Collective Engagement

Empower Smart Citizens

THE OLD WAY

TOP DOWN DECISION MAKING

LINEAR APPROACH

REDUCING COMPLEXITY

MINIMIZING UNCERTAINTY

STIFLING INNOVATION

THE NEW WAY

BOTTOM UP DECISION MAKING

NON-LINEAR APPROACH

ENCOURAGING COMPLEXITY

EMBRACING UNCERTAINTY

ENABLE & BOOST CREATIVITY

Sint Antoniesbreestraat 691011 HB Amsterdam

waag.org / [email protected]

Frank KresinResearch Director@kresin / [email protected]