Smart City might be the campaign, but it will be over Big Data that the battle for the city will be fought. So where does this Big Data reside and who gets to see it, let alone make sense of it and use it?
Seams and Boundaries in the Hybrid City Explosive innovation and adoption of computing, mobile devices, and rich sources of data are changing the cities in which we live, work, and play. It's about us, and how computing in the context of our cities is changing how we live. It is envisaged that the urban spaces of the future will be saturated with both visible and hidden media that gather and transmit information. How we as physical beings connect with, interpret and shape the increase of data residing in our environment will be a significant challenge. Brief
What are the products and services that citizens of the near future will use to create and consume data in the Hybrid City? What will the toolkits of these ‘data hunters’ contain, and how will they explore the space between and beyond buildings as they seek to understand the urban environment through interaction rather than delineation?
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The concept of 'Big Data' has become intimately linked with the vision of the 'Smart City'. The
The Hybrid City is an environment that comprises both the tangible and the virtual. It is a place where data resides at the boundaries of the physical and the digital. This landscape is made more complex as these seams ebb and flow with time and place. The experience of data might only be fleeting and transient.
From Urban Space to Future Place — The UrbanIxD Summer School 2013
On the first day of the summer school all the participants received the following brief. Descriptions of all the projects created by the four atelier groups are included in the Projects section at the end of this document.
UrbanIxD
The Brief