Master in City & Technology 1yr program

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MaCT Master in

City and Technology BARCELONA - MUMBAI

IAAC, Smart Public Space, 2013 Elif Gungor, Nuri Choi, Roopa Sharma, Youssef Rashdan, Zeynep Birgönül 2

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MaCT 2014-2016

Balwant Sheth School of Architecture

MASTER IN CITY & TECHNOLOGY

2014-2016

MUMBAI-BARCELONA

Internet of Cities City Regeneration Projects Information & Communication Technologies

DEVELOPING STRATEGIES & TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE GLOBAL URBAN PHENOMENA, SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE & FUTURE URBAN GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES Joint Master Program Organized by IAAC & BSSA www.iaac.net/MasterInCityAndTechnologyBSSA/

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TO APPLY: applications@iaac.net enquiry@nmims.edu _ www.iaac.net www.bssablog.net www.iaacblog.com www.valldaura.net www.fablabbcn.org FOR ENQUIRIES: Barcelona, Spain : +34 – 933 – 209 520 Mumbai, India : +91 – 022 – 42332083

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The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), in collaboration with the Balwant Sheth School of Architecture (BSSA) and the Barcelona City Council, is launching an EU accredited Master program in City and Technology. In an effort of understanding the needs for the habitability of the 21st century cities and the significant role of technology for the formation of the new urban environments IAAC proposes a new Master program oriented in training the new professionals that both City Government and Industry need in order to develop projects for the transformation of the cities using the potential of technologies of information.

1_The Institute 2_Collaborative Institutes 3_World of Cities 4_Master in City and Technology - MaCT 5_MaCT Program Development

The Master program represents an effort of facilitating the exchange of knowledge and the mutual learning of urban experiences among cities.

Barcelona is considered to be at the foorefront for urban strategic planning, awarded the European Capital of Innovation (“iCapital”) prize “for introducing the use of new technologies to bring the city closer to citizens” by the European Commission.

Hence the MaCT proposes to learn from the experiences of Barcelona, and applying these learning in Mumbai, representing one of the several actions between the Mumbai and Barcelona urban administrations.

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THE INSTITUTE

THE INSTITUTE IAAC

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The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is an international centre for research, education, investigation and development oriented toward architecture as a discipline that addresses different scales of territorial analysis and urban development as well as diverse architectural projects, digital processes and information environments.

Located in Barcelona, one of the international capitals of Urbanism, the institute develops multidisciplinary programmes that explore international urban and territorial phenomena, with a special emphasis on the opportunities that arise from the emergent territories and on the cultural, economic and social values that architecture can contribute to society.

IAAC sets out to take R+D to architecture and urbanism and to create multidisciplinary knowledge networks, and to this end the institute works in collaboration with a number of cities and regions, industrial groups and research centres, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Brighton and the University of Chicago, developing various research programmes which bring together experts in diff erent disciplines such as engineering, sociology, anthropology, architecture and other fi elds of investigation.

IAAC has made a name as a centre of international reference which welcomes students and investigators from diverse countries, among which are India, Australia, the USA, Poland, Argentina , Ethiopia, Iraq and others.

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COLLABORATIVE INSTITUTE

COLLABORATIVE INSTITUTES

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BSSA

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The NMIMS’s Balwant Sheth School of Architecture (BSSA) focuses on various modes of architectural education, research and practice. It emphasizes on the ever changing ethos, behavioral sciences, tools and techniques, and assimilates all in contemporary design expression.

The students would be offered holistic exposure and understanding through Art, History, Technology, Architectural Design and Construction process. Balwant Sheth School of Architecture would award a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch), under the five years degree program of NMIMS University which is recognized by the Council of Architecture.

Balwant Sheth School of Architecture (BSSA) is a young School. In a span of three months of its decision to initiate the School, SVKM’s NMIMS University, established a solid academic and resource base with modern facilities and Infrastructure. The Council of Architecture has recognized the course offering a full time five year B.Arch. Degree.

Since it’s inception in year 2007, forty students and fourteen highly qualified and internationally exposed faculty members are engrossed in a journey to explore the “Process of Design”. Our syllabus imbibes Contemporary Design and Advanced Technology Studio Models. We are preparing our students to understand the changing ethos of architectural design and practice.

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COLLABORATIVE INSTITUTES

COLLABORATIVE INSTITUTE

Anatomy of the City Habitat The City Protocol

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BARCELONA CITY COUNCIL

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Barcelona is currently ranked in the top 10 smart cities in the world, but the City Council of Barcelona wants more, greatly pushing towards Barcelona becoming the world’s number 1 self -sufficient city.

In September 2011 Barcelona’s city council launched the “Barcelona as a people city” project by introducing the use of new technologies to foster economic growth and the welfare of its citizens through: - Open data initiatives, offering valuable information to individuals and private companies; - Sustainable city growth initiatives on smart lighting, mobility (e-vehicle) and residual energy (heating and cooling networks); - Social innovation; - Promotion of alliances between research centres, universities, private and public partners within the scope of the project; - Providing better ‘smart services’ in a flexible, continuous and agile way through ICT –used as means to launch innovation in different areas of the city.

In July 2014, in the occasion of the FAB10 conference, the 10th International Fab Lab Network Conference hosted by IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona, the Mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias, accepted the Fab City Pledge, accepting the challenge to implement a Fab Lab in each neighborhood in Barcelona, making Barcelona the first Fab City.

These steps taken by the City Council of Barcelona, represent part of a more apmple framework, in which the city is moving towards Barcelona 5.0: “We want to become a city formed by productive & self-sufficient neighborhoods, at human speed, inside a high speed, hyperconnected and ecoefficient metropolis.”

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MaCT WORLD OF CITIES

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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES INTERNET OF EVERYTHING CITY REGENERATION PROJECTS

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The next 40 years will see an unprecedented transformation in the global urban landscape. Between 2010 and 2050, the number of people living in cities will increase from 3.6 billion to 6.3 billion. Almost all of that growth will occur in developing countries. By 2025 there will be 37 megacities, each with a population greater than 10 million; 22 of those cities will be in Asia. The impacts of this new phase of urbanization on the global economy and on existing urban infrastructure and resources are already being felt. They are also spurring innovation in urban design, technologies, and services.

Trillions of dollars will be spent on urban infrastructure in this period, presenting an immense opportunity for new transport management systems, smart grids, water monitoring systems, and energy efficient buildings. Information and communication technologies will be deeply embedded in the fabric of both old and new cities

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and will change the way we think of city operations and how we live and work in these environments. Pike Research forecasts that the smart city technology market will grow from $6.1 billion annually in 2012 to $20.2 billion in 2020.{1} Metaphors based on futurism and utopianism have been used over the past two decades to describe the changing ICT-based city. The information era and the technological advances in communications allow specific planning and design ideas to get far away from futuristic approaches; concepts for the future agglomeration seek bottom-up processes where importance is not final aesthetics or final accountancies but rather than data and information that prepare the ground for the birth of an urban metabolism. {1} http://www.pikeresearch.com/research/smart-cities

Urban environments have always stood in close relationship to the technologies of production, transport, and communications. By introducing ICT in spatial planning, it can be conceptualized as a new type of infrastructure providing for the transport of data or information. As technologies and their impacts on urban environment change, their relationship calls for new or adapted concepts, where the emerging pattern language of electronic connections tie in seamlessly with the language of physical connections.

The great challenge for a new urban metabolism lies in the capacity of the city to interact, to give and receive information among interconnected nodes of different scales and natures (infrastructure, buildings, public space elements, environmental conditions, flows). This anticipates fundamental concepts related to the importance of proposing symbiotic systems of organization based on real time data that can be further articulated

into responsive systems and metabolic organizations, where small decisions can have a large impact at an urban scale.

Cities, then, perform as organisms and become behavioral.

The city is a connective network among human beings and their activities. This is what led to urbanization in the first place: individuals clustered so that communication distances would shrink to a minimum, while the number of connective nodes increased.

The future city model gives a leading role to information and communication technologies as well as to user empowerment in terms of interaction and innovation.

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MaCT PROGRAM

MASTER IN CITY AND TECHNOLOGY BARCELONA - MUMBAI

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MaCT: 1 year program

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The Master in City and Technology is a professional Master program oriented in training the new professionals that both City Government and Industry need in order to develop projects for the transformation of the cities using the potential of technologies of information.

Following up the urban research carried out by the IAAC in the last years in fields like Internet of Things, Smart Buildings, Eco neighborhoods, Internet of Energy, Hydrogrid, Digital Fabrication or Smart Cities, the Master in City and Technology is addressing the question of the implementation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in different layers of the urban environment.

The program aims to develop new categories of projects, technologies and solutions that can be extended systematically to the cities of the world, thus helping them to become more efficient and more human.

Every Master Candidate will develop technological seminars, city studies, cultural analysis, and pilot projects in order to have a global comprehension of the development of Smart City Projects based in real real-life environments.

Participants will be introduced to concepts such as Open Innovation and will learn the new necessary processes and tools on how cities, surrounding regions and rural areas can evolve towards sustainable open 14

and user-driven innovation ecosystems to boost Future Internet research and Future Internet-enabled services of public interest and citizen participation.

They will be developing research on new modes of Economic Governance based on Public-Private Partnerships and decentralized collaboration relying on the policy networks found in civil society.

Finally, Master Candidates will learn to develop and implement symbiotic systems of organization based on real time data that can be further articulated into responsive systems and metabolic organizations, where small decisions can have a large impact at an urban scale.

They will learn how to make projects that integrate the design of public space and buildings, the infrastructures of services, the user interaction and the technologies of information, developing technical, social and economical skills. This will allow to develop the new economy of city services and the new models of city management that boost the potential of the Internet of Everything.

From urban planning to urban management and citizen-based services the Master in City and Technology foresee new city economy and new city management models through the creation of efficient, responsive, decentralized, productive and hyper connected systems to be implemented in order to build the city of the future.

The Master program is oriented to engineers, architects, designers, economists and graduates in any discipline related with the transformation and management of cities and technologies of information.

The program will be developed with the collaboration of companies and industry, and will form new professionals interested in leading this new field of city economy that is emerging worldwide.

IAAC Smart Public Space, 2012

IAAC Smart Public Space, 2012

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MaCT PROGRAM

PROGRAM MaCT PROGRAM ORGANIZATION

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The Master in City and Technology is an innovative educational format that offers interdisciplinary skills and understanding through the researching on new categories of projects,technologies and solutions related with information and communication technologies in urban environments.

IAAC gives students the opportunity to create individual Studio agendas and develop Pilot Thesis Projects based on Citizen Innovation, Cities New Business Models, Urban Apps, Smart City Infrastructures, new Citizen-based Services, Open Data Development and more. In this way, IAAC puts together an experimental and learning environment for the training of professionals with both theoretical and practical responses to the increasing complexity of contemporary urban environments.

the transformation and management of cities and technologies of information.

The Master in City and Technology comprises the following elements: 1. Research Studio 2. Seminars 3. Design Studios 4. Seminars 5. Pilot Project Thesis 6. Seminars 7. Lecture Series

Term I Term I Term II Term II Term III Term III All Terms Barcelona City Council, 2013

Students have the opportunity to be part of a highly international group, including faculty members, researchers and lecturers, in which they are encouraged to develop collective decision-making processes and materialize their project ideas.

The aim of the IAAC is to form graduates who, after the completion of the programme, will be able to develop their acquired skills in a diversity of professional environments, related with

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IAAC Hyperhabitat, 2008

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MaCT PROGRAM

TERM 1 (24 ECTS CREDITS)

TERM 2 (24 ECTS CREDITS)

TERM 3 (25 ECTS CREDITS)

RESEARCH STUDIO AND SEMINARS

DESIGN STUDIOS AND SEMINARS

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The 12-week Fall Term is a formative platform structured by a Research City Regeneration Project in the city of Barcelona as a case study and four complementary obligatory Seminars anticipating ideas that will appear during the programme in relation to ICTs for cities, new tools for city analysis, Open Innovation, new cities business models, design strategies, innovative forms of planning and contemporary culture. A toolbox of both, theoretical and practical skills for further research work.

The 12-week Winter Term is structured by a Design Studio based on Urban Data Project in the city of Barcelona and four complementary obligatory Seminars introducing new categories ofprojects for integrating the design of public space and buildings,the infrastructures of services,the user interaction and the technologies of information.

The 12-week Spring Term is structured by the Pilot Project Thesis in Mumbai as a case study and four complementary obligatory Seminars introducing new processes and tools on how cities can evolve towards sustainable open and userdriven innovation ecosystems to boost Future Internet research.

TERM 1 COURSES:

TERM 2 COURSES:

TERM 3 COURSES:

ST-01-1T. Research Studio_City Regeneration Project _Case Study Barcelona (12 ECTS credits)

ST-02-2T. Design Studio_Urban Data Project _Case Study Barcelona (12 ECTS credits)

ST-03-3T. Pilot Project Thesis _Case Study Mumbai (12 ECTS credits)

SM-05-2T. Seminar 05_Cities New Business Models - Sharing Economy (3 ECTS credits)

SM-09-3T. Seminar 09_Interactive Environments - Digital Tools (3 ECTS credits)

SM-06-2T. Seminar 06_New Citizenbased Services (3 ECTS credits)

SM-10-3T. Seminar 10_Internet of Everything (3 ECTS credits)

SM-07-2T. Seminar 07_Smart City Infrastructures - Mapping & Visualization (3 ECTS credits)

SM-11-3T. Seminar 11_Citizen Innovation (3 ECTS credits)

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SM-01-1T. Seminar 01_ICTs for Cities - Theory of Digital Era tools in Urban Design (3 ECTS credits) SM-02-1T. Seminar 02_Open Data Development - Smart Citizen (3 ECTS credits) SM-03-1T. Seminar 03_The City Protocol (3 ECTS credits) SM-04-1T. Seminar 04_Urban Apps Digital Tools (I) (3 ECTS credits)

NOTE: Research Studio and Seminars of Term 1 are obligatory.

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SM-08-2T. Seminar 08_Urban Elements Design (3 ECTS credits)

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SM-12-3T. Seminar 12_Urban Apps Digital Tools (II) (3 ECTS credits)

RT-01-2T. Research Trip 01_Mumbai Pilot Project site exploration NOTE: Design Studio and Seminars of Term 2 are obligatory.

IAAC Hyperhabitat, 2008

NOTE: Pilot Project Thesis and Seminars of Term 3 are obligatory.

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MaCT PROGRAM

MaCT TERM 1 RESEARCH STUDIO AND SEMINARS

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ST-01-1T. RESEARCH STUDIO

SM-01-1T. SEMINAR 01

SM-02-1T. SEMINAR 02

Research Studio on City Regeneration Project in the case study of Barcelona city.

Growth, overcrowding, budget constraints and inadequate infrastructures are putting increasing pressure on cities, states, and countries. The Research Studio will be focused on new processes and tools for cities analysis and on proposals for transforming the way these spaces are designed, built and renewed in order to ensure economic, social and environmental sustainability.

Cities could be considered as living machines of data and information that both users and evironment generate Observing the real-time city becomes a means to understanding the present and anticipating the future of urban environments.

The great challenge for a new urban metabolism lies in the capacity of the city to interact, to give and receive information among interconnected nodes of different scales and natures. This anticipates fundamental concepts related to the importance of proposing symbiotic systems of organization based on real time data that can be further articulated into responsive systems and metabolic organizations, where small decisions can have a large impact at an urban scale.

The Seminar will introduce existing and future opportunities for implementing Information and Communication Technologies in different layers of the city anatomy.

This Seminar will explore the possibilities of Open data which focuses on making public data available to everyone in standard, open, digital formats, that are clearly structured and comprehensible.

Smart Citizen is a platform to generate participatory processes of the people in the cities. Connecting data, people and knowledge, the objective of the platform is to serve as a node for building productive open indicators and distributed tools, and thereafter the collective construction of the city for its own inhabitants.

The Seminar will focus on the creation of citizen driven networks based on city environmental values or home energy consumption.

Different project proposals such as mobile and web applications, new business models, public-private partnerships, designs for the public space will be developed based on the access to this data that encourages their reuse.

THE CITY REGENERATION PROJECT (12 ECTS Credits)

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ICTs FOR CITIES - THEORY OF DIGITAL ERA TOOLS IN URBAN DESIGN (3 ECTS Credits)

IAAC, Barcelona Urban Apps, 2013

OPEN DATA DEVELOPMENT - SMART CITIZEN (3 ECTS Credits)

IAAC, Productive City, 2013

SM-03-1T. SEMINAR 03 THE CITY PROTOCOL (3 ECTS Credits)

City Protocol is a new open, global, and progressive working framework for cities worldwide to assess and improve performance in environmental sustainability, economic competitiveness, quality of life and city services, by innovating and demonstrating new leadership models, new ways or engaging society and by taking advantage of new information and communication technologies (ICT).

IAAC is part of the City Protocol initiative that includes more than than 50 cities, companies and academic institutions around the world. The Seminar will be based on the existing research of the project exploring and developing reports, standards, services definition, best practices and recommendations to turn cities into more innovative and sustainable environments.

SM-04-1T. SEMINAR 04

URBAN APPS - DIGITAL TOOLS (I) (3 ECTS Credits) The modern city is becoming a pointer system, the new URL, for tomorrow’s hybrid digitalphysical environment. This Seminar uses collected data for creating urban platforms. An urban platform or urban application will be a tool to which every citizen will have access in order to be informed about several aspects of the city.

The application will allow the combination of data and will allow to the users to take Intelligent decisions based in customized needs and promote citizen participation and initiatives.

This seminar will be run in 2 parts over term 1 and term 3.

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MaCT TERM 2 DESIGN STUDIO AND SEMINARS

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ST-02-2T. DESIGN STUDIO

SM-06-2T. SEMINAR 06

URBAN DATA PROJECT (12 ECTS Credits)

NEW CITIZEN-BASED SERVICES (3 ECTS Credits)

Design Studio on Urban Data Project in the case study of Barcelona city.

The Studio focus on the unprecedented volume and diversity of data that is being collected and published in the cities. Through these data the Seminar explores the opportunities to optimize the operation of cities and anticipate the impact of their growth using computational methods and tools. The Studio will analyze urban data and build complex computer models that simulate the impact of policy decisions and development upon a city and its residents.

It will also explore new tools for cities analysis based on public Open data platforms and will discuss both the potential and the precautions inherent within.

Smart City is about how citizens are shaping the city, and how citizens are empowered, using technologies, to contribute to urban development.

The Seminar will work towards Open Innovation models and how those affect cities to evolve towards sustainable open and userdriven innovation ecosystems to boost Future Internet-enabled services of public interest and citizen participation.

SM-07-2T. SEMINAR 07

SMART CITY INFRASTRUCTURES MAPPING & VISUALIZATION (3 ECTS Credits) What is the network of infrastructures required to respond to future cities?

The Seminar focuses on the concept of implementing sustainable technologies and intelligence to the fundamental systems that support communities, regions and countries.

The Seminar will highlight projects that focus on Information, Water,Matter, Energy, Mobility and Green Spaces which are the main Infrastructure elements of the City anatomy.

Shared car systems, smart and distributed logistics, smart grids, high-tech public waste management network are some of the strategies the Seminar will introduce.

SM-08-2T. SEMINAR 08

URBAN ELEMENTS DESIGN (3 ECTS Credits) The Seminar will explore into the next generation of smart urban elements through design strategies based on embeded sensing technologies and interactive and communication services on urban elements such as urban furniture, public lighting elements and public transportation stops among others.

The Seminar will also smart urban elements custom-made designs that fit the character of each of the city.

SM-05-2T. SEMINAR 05

CITIES NEW BUSINESS MODELS - SHARING ECONOMY (3 ECTS Credits) The Seminar will explore successful business models necessary to implement smart city practices. These new business models will consider energy information, and better control for smarter municipal infrastructures, services and transportation among others.

The Seminar will also focus on how smart city enables enterprises to lead a new business model, where firms that used to get paid for delivering a final product or service to the client they could now participate in the governance of cities and they could become a supplementary part to the government.

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IAAC, Barcelona Data, 2012

Barcelona City Council, 2013

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MaCT PROGRAM

MaCT TERM 3 PILOT PROJECT THESIS AND SEMINARS

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ST-03-3T. PILOT PROJECT THESIS

SM-09-3T. SEMINAR 09

Pilot Project Thesis is an individual Thesis Project to be developed in the last Term.

The objective of the Pilot Project Thesis is the research and development of a final pilot project implemented in the city of Mumbai. The Project is developed within the IAAC Master City Projects agenda that includes: Internet of Things, Internet of Energy, Hydrogrid, Smart Buildings, Eco-neighbourhoods, Responsive Public Space among others.

The Project is developed in collaboration with organizations and companies with interests and actions developed within the Smart City agenda.

The Seminar is a theoretically-oriented advanced introduction to the broad field of human-computer interaction, extending to consider topics such as tangible and embodied interaction, augmented reality, computersupported collaborative work, participatory design, cognitive models of users and others.

(16 ECTS Credits)

THEORY OF INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS

SM-12-3T. SEMINAR 12

URBAN APPS - DIGITAL TOOLS (II) (3 ECTS Credits) IAAC, Endesa Solar Pavilion, 2011

SM-10-3T. SEMINAR 10

INTERNET OF EVERYTHING II (3 ECTS Credits)

IAAC, Smart Citizen, 2012

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Internet has changed the way we communicate and live but has not yet changed our cities. Internet of Things has been transforming rigid physical objects into responsive ones allowing their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure.

The Seminar will focus on the Internet of Everything, a concept that is highlighting the importance of the relation and interaction among objects,users and the environment far beyond focusing on the objects itselves. The new emerging relationships will allow to develop the new economy of city services and the new models of city management that boost the potential of the Internet of Everything.

SM-11-3T. SEMINAR 11 CITIZEN INNOVATION (3 ECTS Credits) The Seminar explores the citizen participation in public services through an open innovation process.

How can citizens be in the core of the system?

How can local authorities support citizen’s ideas to create new tools for improving their well-beeing?

Which are the new public services based on open innovation and citizen participation?

How can cities evolve based on rules related to local parameters, social or emotional factors of the citizens when occopying space?

The Seminar will also explore social innovation and inclusiveness together with economic innovation and environmental sustainability in the Smart City.

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