During the Dutch Design Week 2021, we have spent a weekend at the Experivan of the BMS Lab of the University of Twente. In this pop-up lab exhibit, we could engage with visitors and share with them our web experience Future Frictions. This has been a very valuable opportunity to collect feedback and insights that […]
Together with Gemeente Amersfoort, Aerovision and Marxman, we have co-created a tool to explore ethical dilemmas in smart city futures. This tool consists of a set of 4 scenarios that are fictive and provocative short narratives that illustrate ethical issues arising from the development and implementation of smart city technologies. The scenarios narrate plausible stories […]
On June 28, 2021, we will be organizing a workshop at the MAB2020. In this workshop, we will showcase the prototype of a web experience that brings smart city controversies to life. How do our individual choices shape the smart city? How can an immersive digital experience encourage debate about different perspectives and values? For […]
In January 2021, our colleagues Julieta Matos Castaño and Anouk Geenen, in collaboration with Deger Ozkaramanli, organized a workshop at the meetup sessions of the Speculative Futures The Hague community. The session was an interactive workshop, in which participants were invited to dissect all layers, elements, and relations of a controversy. More information about the […]
“Agonistic engagement spaces: towards democratising the smart city” Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations (held online), University of Twente, 4-7 November 2020 Workshop date & time: Thursday, 5 November, 17:15-18:45 In this workshop, we invite participants to engage and reflect on a methodological framework based on ‘agonistic engagement spaces’ (Mouffe, 2000) in the context of human-technology-city interactions […]
On September 19th, Corelia Baibarac-Duignan organised a workshop to explore neighborhood ‘data’ and re-imagine neighbourhood futures, together with residents of Leidsche Rijn (Utrecht). The workshop was guided by the questions: ‘What is data?’, ‘Who decides?’ and ‘How can it be made meaningful for the future of the neighborhood?’. Rather than focusing on data understood from […]
Our partner @AeroVisionBV is organizing a hakathon in October. Would you like to explore how satellite imagery can help to address climate change issues? Join on 7-13 October! http://aerovision.nl/Projecten/Smart-City-Hackathon
Have you ever wondered how we might achieve a smart city that fulfills all its inhabitants’ aspirations? How might this city look like when you see it through other people’s eyes? And what kinds of actions might be needed to design a responsible smart city? If you are interested in exploring with us these kinds […]
The team of researchers composed of Julieta Matos Castaño, Deger Ozkaramanli, Anouk Geenen, Mascha Van der Voort, organized a workshop at the DRS 2020. Interested in the abstract of the workshop? Have a look at the text below! Abstract: This Workshop will facilitate an understanding of how controversies in socio-technical contexts (e.g. smart cities) can […]
Dear all, First and most importantly, we you and your loved ones are doing well in this uncharted time. With this message, we would like to give you an update about our design interventions in 2020. As you might already know, the main goal of this research project is to develop a collaboration platform for responsible […]