Michael Smyth Centre for Interaction Design Edinburgh Napier University, UK @michael_smyth

Data and the Hybrid City

Visible media in the urban landscape

How do people interact with technology in the environment?

Invisible media in the urban landscape

How do we gather data from the environment?

How does the environment gather information about citizens?

The vision of Ubicomp is one of seamless interfaces, connecting into invisible, distributed, pervasive and ubiquitous computing.

Interactions create data, often personal data relating to individuals, and if our interactions are "seamless" this raises serious questions around the visibility of what happens to that data. Issues of trust, privacy, ownership and control.

Is this the vision of the smart city?

It is the individuals who inhabit cities that make them smart.

Individuals as creators and sharers of data

collectivism & activism

Nokuna - social utopia or creative control centre?

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It’s 2063 in the Displaced City. Nokuna is a protected region that operates on a gift economy model. The universal Bitcoin currency has had its signal blocked and is useless within Nokuna’s boundaries. !!Andreas Streinzer, AnthropologistCaitlin Cockerton, Design ResearcherJoatan Preis Dutra, Media Designer Louise Jensen, Interaction Designer

Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena, atelier leader / Damir Prizmic, atelier coordinator

Tidy Street, Brighton (2011)

Trash|Track :: MIT Lab (2009)

Walking Path to Avoid CCTV in New York (2001)

visibility & virtuality

Ingress :: Niantic Labs (2012)

AR game that encourages players to input data about physical monuments.

Immaterials - The ghost in the field :: Timo Arnall and Jack Schulze (2009)

connectedness & discovery

Yellow Arrow Project (2004)

a cartography of the intimate & the everyday

Dead Drops :: Aram Bartholl (2010)

Rider Spoke :: Blast Theory (2009)

Aurora, the Aura City

!Now it is 2113 and this is our second wave of hope. Wearing our new technologies, we have achieved ultimate connectivity: we enjoy augmented experiences as long as we sync our senses with others in proximity. Sharing visual data requires that people look in each other's eyes; sharing feelings can only occur if people actually touch. !Mara Balestrini Sandro Engel Ena HadžićAssunta Matassa

Tobias Revell , atelier leader / Sara Božanić, atelier coordinator

The hybrid city is characterised by increasing layers of data.

How will we derive meaning from data and how will those meanings inform our subsequent decisions - urban interaction design

What are the products and services that citizens of the near future will use to create and consume data in the Hybrid City?

Further Reading

Talk to Me - Design and the Communication between People and Objects (2011), Antonelli & Hunt (eds), MoMa Press.

Non Object (2011) Branco Lukic, MIT Press

Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City (2011) Mikoleit & Purckhauer, MIT Press

www.michael-smyth.co.uk www.urbanixd.eu !@michael_smyth