Can a City become a Laboratory?

Barcelona LaboratoriCan a city become a citizen-driven living lab?

Ines GarrigaDirecció de Creativitat i Innovació

Artur Serrai2cat Foundation

Innovation Convention. March 10-11 2014.

The City of Barcelona as innovation community: Past, present and future

The 22@: The Past

The Barcelona Smart City: The Present

The Barcelona Lab: The Future

BCN The Lab, 30 nov, 1 dec. 2012

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Barcelona Laboratori / March 2013

The City Hall

Innovation Management Communities of Innovation (CI)

Partners: Civic houses, libraries, telecentres, neighborhoods and districts entities.“BcnLab” CLUB.

The Barcelona Lab’s model: To encourange innovation from all citizens

Univ Centre I+D Priv.Univ. Culturals Centres Corporations

CI 1 CI 2 CI3 CI 4 CI5 CI6

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Barcelona Laboratori / 27 de Febrer 2013

As a starting point in Barcelona's position as a leader in the use of science and technology for the creative and cultural industries catalyst, BcnLab have considered strategic a broadband interconnection for a cultural creation space (Fabra i Coats).

Connected factory building at 10 Gbps with experimental network experiments, and has enabled a node of WiFi broadband network “(Guifinet”) for citizens.

Opening up Research Infrastructures to citizensFabra i Coats a 10GBps

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The collection of digital connectivity and infrastructure of the city and its connectivity "global" has meant:•Experimenting with new formats at GREC innovació.

Innovating in cultureGREC Innovació 2012

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Collectives Experiments

Conducted and participated not only by expert

Horizontality in the generation of new knowledge

The citizen is not only a provider and consumer of

data, involved in each of the steps

Fostering Citizen Science

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Collective ExperimentsBee-Path. Human Mobility Experiments

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