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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: sbisker@gmail.com / 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