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solomon bisker (@sbisker) / citizen volunteerism + urban interaction designtoday is february 7th 2010
hi. I’m sol, an interaction designer and computer scientist. I’m interested in using design and technology to reexamine and reimagine shared spaces
Brescia – Ride Link
my background – software and mobile design for (and alongside, and inside) the city
what now? tangible computing and technology in our physical communities
source: flickr, rene-germany
three ingredients for community-driven urban interaction design
advocacy
self-organization
self-productionsource: flickr, makerbot
source: flickr, seattlemunicipalarchives
source: flickr, ivanwalsh
advocacy and activism
advocacy city-wide values
urban renewal – rebuilding to celebrate community
source: flickr, yourdon
urban renewal – maintaining community at the expense of community
source: flickr, mit-librariessource: flickr, mit-libraries
where to start? look around you
source: flickr, nostri-imago
holly whyte – an advocate for starting with people
source: Whyte, “Social Life of Small Urban Spaces”
advocacy – understanding a community’s needs and how government can meet them
source: flickr, adamgreenfield
self-organization and volunteerism
self-organization community efforts
creating a digital community to support physical community
“turn key solutions” – a continuously revisited compromise
volunteerism – providing essential service and establishing local identity
source: flickr, tom adamson
extending volunteerism to the digital realm
top-down meets bottom-up – government-encouraged volunteer communities
self organization and volunteerism – cities supporting tech the way they do soup kitchens
open-software, open-hardware and building community technologies
self-production individual tools
from open software to open hardware…to open infrastructure?
grassroots efforts at community engagement through open-hardware
disposable electronics = a willingness to tinker and contribute to the commons
source: flickr, urban_data
art? or littering? exploring and establishing societal expectations
source: flickr, adam.zethraeus
self-production – encouraging individual experimentation in a brave new world
source: cnet
my work – applying these themes to design platforms for public computing
advocacy
self-organization
self-production
learning from each other - using technology to “democratize” advocacy
self-organized volunteer engineering, self-production with off-the-shelf electronics
can people design their own technologies to observe and influence their world?
…and can more autonomous technologies engage public spaces for them?
something old, something borrowed, and something new.
advocacy
self-organization
self-production
city-wide values
community efforts
individual tools
individuals designing self-empowering technologies for use in the places we share
personal public computing
source: flickr, woodsfehr
personal public computing – interactions that belong to everyone
source: flickr, keren
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solomon bisker (@sbisker) / interaction10 / citizen volunteerism + urban interaction designtoday is still february 7th 2010
thank you
you can reach me at: [email protected] / twitter: @sbiskerwww.biskerrific.com
cheap plug: www.cmu.edu/mtid
Extra slides
cambridge systematics – applying design to institutional thinking and planning
failed top-down applications of technology to societal problems
Image: cdsphotos.com
17 more to gowhere is the line between a city and a community?
1 more to gohypothesis (and hope) - cities have to have faith……new design methodologies can reinforce community trust and dialogue
Pitti-Mobi(diagram? Mirja shot?)
16 more to gopitti.mobi - hybrid physical and digital interaction design for social spaces
15 more to gounderstanding a community - delicate interactions for delicate situations
14 more to golesson - embrace space as a design constraint, not a design problem
12 more to goecowearables – making sustainability part of one’s physical identity
11 more to goecowearables – creating a personal, public identity
10 more to gogroupshare – using serendipity and technology to reshape brescia
lesson – encourage digital volunteerism like we encourage soup kitchens
this is me – aspiring interaction designer slash computer scientist…
8 more to gobatosi – building tools that leverage political responsibility and passion
7 more to golesson - no two bureaucracies are the same…nor should they be
concern – data overload leads to data misinterpretation 5 more to go
3 more to go”arbitrary” openness can redefine a community’s expectations
2 more to gotradeoffs– interaction design patterns as vocab for dialogue about identity
18 more to go…slash urban planner? reexamining and reimagining our communities
18 more to go…slash urban planner? reexamining and reimagining our communities