We are proud to launch Future Frictions, a web experience to reflect on and debate smart city futures. In this interactive web-experience, you walk around a neighbourhood and interact with different people living in it. While encountering a specific smart city technology (i.e. a drone, AI), you are confronted with making controversial decisions regarding its […]
Our colleagues Corelia Baibarac-Duignan and Michiel de Lange have published an article in Big Data & Society: “Controversing the datafied smart city: Conceptualising a ‘making-controversial’ approach to civic engagement“. This paper explores how controversies can act as agents of change and open up new spaces for participation and action. Have a look!
What is the ‘anatomy’ of a controversy? Can we use controversies to come up with new ideas while engaging in a deeper reflection on what is going on around us? Last August, Julieta Matos Castaño, Deger Ozkaramanli, Anouk Geenen, and Mascha van der Voort, from the University of Twente, organized a workshop to reflect on […]
And… the last post of our series of blogposts on the Dutch Desigh Week magazine. In this blogpost, we describe our experiences at the Dutch Design Week 2019, where we used a card game to kindle visitors’ imagination. Have a look! https://ddw.nl/en/magazine-archive/544/futuring-the-smart-city
Second blog post of our Dutch Design Week series! This time about ethical reflection through design. Have a look! https://ddw.nl/en/magazine-archive/543/ethical-reflection-through-design
This week we start a series of 3 blog-posts about our research project published on www.ddw.nl, the magazine of Dutch Design Week. We start off with exploring the role of design to bring interest groups together to think, feel, and take action on the topic of smart city futures. Take a look at ‘Design and […]
The (virtual) Design Research Society Conference is taking place this week (DRS2020). The theme of the conference is ‘synergy’: exploring design research as a driver for creating transformative change for good, through collaboration and co-creation. For this conference, we wrote a paper about organizing collaborative processes to make sense of smart city technologies. The article […]
Time flies! While we prepare new design interventions for 2020, we have been working on an annual report that summarizes our activities during the first year of this research project (2018-2019). Would you like to learn more about the smart city controversies we discovered during our workshop sessions? Would you be interested in knowing more […]
Anouk Geenen has published a very interesting article about the importance of having ethical considerations while designing smart city solutions. Have a look! ( https://www.agconnect.nl/artikel/ook-een-slimme-stad-roept-ethische-vragen-op )
Last October 2019, we participated in the Dutch Design Week as a part of the Design United exhibit. During 9 days, we invited visitors to write stories about the future of the city using our card game. We got many enthusiastic writers we collected more than 120 stories! As an outcome of this experience, we […]