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 […]
We have published a chapter about smart city controversies in the book “A smart city, this is how you do it” published by the Future City Foundation. Have a look! https://future-city.nl/controversiele-slimme-steden/
Are you interested in the results of our ‘Controversy workshop’ held at the Future City Foundation (https://future-city.nl/) on 5 April 2019? We co-created this workshop approach with the Design Innovation Group (https://designinnovationgroup.nl/) and gained very interesting insights into dreams and nightmares of smart city futures. Have a look at our preliminary report!