SMART CITIZEN KIT Artistic Research, Critical Design & Social Innovation

Mieke van Heesewijk Program Developer@miekevh / mieke@waag.org

BIG DATA AND SMART CITYTaipei 18th. Nov. 2014

RESEARCH & DEVELOP TECHNOLOGY FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION

•  Institute for Art, Science & Technology

•  Since 1994, 45 FTE, based in Amsterdam

•  Artistic research, critical design & social innovation

•  Exploring emergent technologiesand opening them for society

• For self expression and communication

• Linking people, groups, communities

• Sharing thoughts, blueprints, algorithms

• Reflecting & understanding

And discovering it’sunderlying meaning.

Technology

DNA

new combinations

art is

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users asdesigners

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learning by making

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if you can’t open it,

you don’t own it

Structure

waag research

labsCreative Learning

Creative CareFuture InternetOpen DesignOpen WetlabUrban Reality

academyFab Academy

FabSchoolMinorsPhDO

waag open

eventsBootcamps

TalksFestivalsContests

makersguild

Fablab A’damWetlab

Culture Grid

facilitationsWorkshopsTrainingen

productsFairphone7scenesCity SDK

Labs

Creative Care LabWet Lab

Open Design Lab

Future Internet Lab

Creative Learning Lab

Urban Reality Lab

invention - creation - innovation

invention

curiosity driven research

creation

context driven research

innovation

transformation research

Users as Designers

impact

Events

Making

Free research is motor for innovation

publications

Research

methods

DIY products

education

advice

•  Linking arts, science, technology & society in research programmes

•  Human centered product development•  Facilitating innovation processes•  Consultancy, workshops & brainstorms•  Visualizations, demonstrators & prototypes•  Incubating products•  Organizing events & competitions•  Academy programme

Activities & Services

Results

Labyrinth Psychotica

Jennifer Kanary: http://www.labyrinthpsychotica.org/

Bodyguard

Fairphone

Fablab Amsterdam

Health Living Lab

OPENSOURCE / CONTENT / DATA

HARDWARE

Bottom-up & grassroots

Open source, open data, open hardware, open knowledge, P2P,

e-democracyCAPS, DSI, web

entrepreneurship

Top down &systemic approaches European Innovation

Partnerships, Smart Cities, FI-PPP; Cloud strategy, challenge.gov eHealth,

eGovernment

Commons Competition

Distributed

Central

Network Effect of the Internet

Data Driven Ecology TrendsOpen Networks Innovative combinations of network solutions and infrastructures, e.g. sensor networks, free interoperable network services, open Wifi, bottom up-broadband, distributed social networks, p2p infrastructures

Open Data Innovative ways to capture, use, analyse, and interpret open data coming from people and from the environmentOpen Knowledge Co-production of new knowledge and crowd mobilisation based on open contents, open source and open accessOpen Hardware New ways of making and using open hardware solutions

Emergent tools/methods•  Apps•  Alternative currency•  Citizen science•  Cloud•  Collaborative consumption•  Crowdfunding •  Crowdsourcing •  Crowdmapping •  Crowdcampaining •  Citizen Journalism•  Data Visualization•  DIY•  DIY Bio•  E-petitions•  Geotagging •  Online learning models•  Online notice board•  Online market place•  Personal monitoring•  P2P•  Peer support •  Social networks•  Etc, etc....

Classification towards creating a data-driven Ecology suggested by MIT, Bollier and Clippinger 2013

3D Printing

http://waag.org/en/blog/manifesto-smart-citizens

3D Printing

Open source houses

Open source cars

SMART CITIZEN KIT

ECOSYSTEM AMSTERDAM

http://www.amsterdam.nl/kunst-cultuur-sport/werkplekken/broedplaatsen/broedplaatsenkaart/

Ecosystem Amsterdam I

Culture•  Netherlands, Amsterdam

especially, is full of networkers, wanting to collaborate for mutual benefit

•  Players are to-the-point, direct, mostly non-political

•  Short lines between different kinds of stakeholders

•  Sometimes: looking for too short-term effect

•  So: need to find the rights partners that want to innovate with you

Policy•  Feedback loops from civil society &

companies do exist. •  Amsterdam invites people in and

helps to organise•  Keen eye for bottom-up

development, and connecting to bottom-up developers

•  Policy mindset is favourable to novelty and innovation.

•  A lot is learned from international cooperation

Ecosystem Amsterdam II

Support•  There is a very active layer

of support structures available: ���Non-governmental institutions•  Foundations•  Funding agencies•  Accelerators•  Knowledge institute•  Civil society groups•  Over 60 innovation hubs���

•  The culture is informal, which makes professionals easy to access

•  The internet, business & financial support structures are well developed

Markets•  Amsterdam is the Netherlands

most important & vibrant creative design hub

•  Lots of startups•  Some large companies (TomTom,

Guerilla Games, Philips, Shell)•  Lots of business clubs, networking

agencies•  Openness to disruptive

innovation (Uber, AirBNB)•  However: there is not a

Silicon Valley start-up culture (yet)

Ecosystem Amsterdam III

Human Capital•  A large number of talented

and motivated individuals is available

•  Many (Eastern Europeans, Chinese & Indians) come to study in NL

•  Open, tolerant atmosphere•  Short ties to educational &

research institutions•  Actors are generally good at

networking•  Entrepreneurship skills & mindset

starting to become bigger

Finance•  Top-sector Creative Industries•  Government invests in accelerators•  Crowd-funding becomes available•  Funding for collaborations

between universities and companies

•  Tax reduction in innovation•  Tax reduction for start-up

companies•  European funding for start-

ups and large integrated projects

Partners

Ecosystem actors

• PeersForum Virium, FutureEverything, FING, Ars Electronica, I2Cat, Fablab network, Nesta, Young Foundation, ..

• Cities Amsterdam, Helsinki, Manchester, Barcelona, Rome, Lisbon, Athens, Berlin, London, …

• Companies Cisco, CMG, IBM, Glimworm, Rooter, ..

• Knowledge Institutes Aalto, MIT, Esade Business School, Dundee, iMinds, ..

• Funding H2020, Creative Europe, Erasmus+, FI-PPP, AAL

PILOT

S M A R T C I T I Z E N K I T

Smart Cities need Smart Citizens

Smart citizen kits

1.  make visible the invisible2.  sense & augment the city3.  provide tools for citizens to interpet &

change the workings of the city4.  open source, open data

Fablab Barcelona

1.  in ‘City Dashboard’

2.  Noise Visualisation

citydashboard.waag.org

Data Smart Citizen Kit

What is City SDK

Helsinki, Manchester, Barcelona, Rome, Lamia and Istanbul

Buildings Amsterdam

Smart citizen kit pilot

1. From sensors to sensing2. Broad implementation3. Support and guidance 4. Interpretation5. Discussion and action 6. 100 kits and citizens

Smart citizen kit pilot experts

1.  RIVM National Institute for Public Health & The environment

2.  TNO

3.  GGD Amsterdam

Technology

ParticipationEnvironment

100 kits available in Amsterdam

distribution from 23/2 till 15/4

Results of distributed kits

data or no data?

Data delivered

63%

No data29%

Stopped8%

of which worked: ���continuously: ca. 60%irregularly: ca. 40%

Principal reason to participate

from the survey at the start

Smart Citizen Kit Insights gathered 1. Data calibration (gas sensors) 2. Participation and engagement3. Make data meaningful4. Make data actionable 5. Management of expectations6. Hardware needs improvement 7. Better sensors and wi-fi module 8. Select Participants carefully

Next Fase Smart Citizen Kit

http://waag.org/en/project/smart-citizen-kit

Smart Citizen Kit Next1. Testbed for SME 2. 500 kits and 500 citizens3. New research – new algoritms4. Dashboard and visualizations

Smart Citizen Kit Testbed for SME

Smart Citizen Kit 500 kits and 500 citizens

Smart Citizen Kit New research – new algoritms

Smart Citizen Kit Dashboard and visualizations

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Mieke van Heesewijk mieke@waag.org@miekevh