1. i2cat, Anella
Cultural,Citilab
Technologists, artists, citizens
Artur Serra
i2cat/Citilab
SAT, Montreal
Feb 16th 2011

2. Technologists

3. i2CAT Foundation

4. VISIONAIR
WP 5 - UHD NET
Ultra High Definition Imaging distributed on optic network
Grenoble Mar 2011
I2CAT, PSNC, University of Essex, University of Twente

5. Partners
• 4 installations in Europe
– I2CAT (Barcelona, Spain),
– PSNC (Poznań, Poland),
– University of Essex (Colchester, UK),
– University of Twente (Twente, Netherlands).
• Visualization and networking
– High resolution facilities
– Interconnected with high speed optical networks
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6. Content Distribution Infrastructure
Direct link to digital cities: Amsterdam,
Meerhoven and TU/e campus
UK-wide Infrastructure
for advanced content
distribution Networked Media Infrastructure for
high quality content distribution in
Poland
*To add

7. Partners: I2CAT
Advanced Media equipment:
• HD professional cameras
and capture cards
• 3D HD displays
• 3D HD capture cards
• 4K tiled displays (SAGE)
• Advance videoconferencing software
• Transcoders

8. The artists

9. La difussion

11. Dancing Q 2005 :
Entre Seoul et le Mercat de Flors a
Barcelona

12. On commence avec l' interaction

13. Mais comment rejoindre les
villes et les citoyens?

14. Anella Cultural:
Un Internet des arts et des citoyens

15. Ajuntament Barcelona

16. La Xarxa Transversal:
un réseau de programeurs culturels

17. 1. Établir la connection à très grande bande passante
entre les salles de Barcelona et les villes
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Teatre Bartrina - Reus
Teatre Principal - Olot
Teatre Monumental - Mataró
Teatre de l’Escorxador - Lleida
IP network entre 5 et 1Gpbs symetriques

18. 2. Équiper les salles en studio de média
• 2 Pcs portables
• 1 audio card
• 1 HD projector
• Power amplifier
audio system.
• Audio mixer.
• Sony Anycast station
• Open sotware:Scenic,
DVTS, Videolan,...

19. 3. Partager des événements culturels
Poetry
festivals
Training
Master Class
Workshops
Courses
Conferences
Performances

20. “ La difusión es donde la tecnologia ofrece
mayores oportunidades a la opera en el siglo
XXI” J. Matabosch.

21. La communication
Bi-directionnelle entre les
centres culturels

22. Metamembrana 2008,
on commence la co-création

23. Marcel.lí Antunez

25. • 14 Interconnected cities
Anella Cultural •
in the Catalan Territory
19 Interconnected
cultural Centers
•
A user driven Media use case • 59 Events programmed
(accumulative February
2010)
− 11 Operas; 5 Festivals;
16 Literature/poetry; 18
Debates/formation; 1
guide tour of an
exhibition; 1 Theatre; 1
visual arts production; 6
others
• 17.800 Audience
(accumulative)
• 3.500 Hours of digital
stored Cultural content
− Objectives in 2010
• Interconnect 5 more
cities
• 3 International
Projects (South-
America, Canada,
Center-Europe)
• To formalize the
management team of
the Cultural Ring
• To share more than
25 new events
Equipped with HD cameras, projectors, … perfect as a testbed for new media technologies
with users

27. The citizens

28. Artists live in a community

29. What is a Citilab?

30. The laboratory of the community

31. 3
3

32. Evolution A: Open networks, open source,
open innovation
-1991. “Internet is for everyone” ISOC.
-2000. Web 2.0, Wikis, social netwoks
-2001. Innocentive, crowdsourcing.
-2005. “Democratizing innovation”....
-2006. Corelabs project: Open Living labs.

33. Evolution B: Telecenters, community access
networks, citilabs
-80s Freenets
-90s Community networks, telecenters,
digital literacy,
-2000s. “Digital divide”
-2010, Social networks
Beyond..living labs, citilabs, innovation
literacy

34. Citilab: The context
Cornellá de Llobregat
Working class city in metropolitan area of BCN
86.519 inhabitants,(INE 2009)
. De-industrialization. Increasing service economy
Elder population: 17,39% (BCN, 20,43%)
Secondary educational centers (5).
No university or tertiary center (BCN, 8)
People with university degree, 9,31%. (BCN, 20,17%)
Immigrants, 17,26% (BCN, 17,54%)
http://www.diba.cat/hg2/menu_ind.asp

35. The current Citilab community
- Two ongoing fieldworks studies, Columbia Univ. and Universitat
de Barcelona (J. Colobrans).
-In april 2010 Citilab has 4.500 registered members.
-85% of them coming from Cornella and neighbors cities.
-20% born in 42 countries outside Spain.
-24% of members have tertiary education (vs. 9% in Cornella)
-The basic question Citilab staff ask to the newcomer is:
“What do you want to do?
If you know how to do it , you can do it here by yourself.
If not, we can help you.
Sharing is our basic way of doing”.

36. Priority to local needs: bottom up approach.
-Discovering local needs and opportunities.
Ethnografic fieldwork.
-Connecting local needs with global issues...or not yet.
-From innovative topics to research ones.
Examples:
Users Project Research topic
-Retired people 55+........ Seniorlab..............AAL and others
-Second. Teachers (30-50s).. Digital Horchad......PLEs.
-Musicians, (20-30s)............ Musiclab...............Digital content
-Children (10-20).................. Scracht...............Comp.Thinking

39. Seniors are different!
-Current seniors are healthier, they have more money, and
more free time for learning, for being creative, and why
not for participating in innovative projects...
-Seniors (55-75) are not elders (80+).
-One of the few areas in which Europe is just ahead of the
rest of the world
-Extension of neotenic characteristics. (Charlton, B.G. 2007)
-How about a senior industry?: senior fashion, senior
universities,knowledge tourism, etc.

41. A living lab on e-learning
-The teachers need a living lab for innovating in
teaching.
– They are fed up of “technology harassment”
-The “Hort Digital”, an innovative project for building a
LL on e-learning, specially for teachers
– A Personal Learning Environment (PLE)
– A Problem based Learning approach
-Results:
– Very positive results with teachers
– Support from the Dep. of Education to
opening the project to other centers.

42. MUSICLab

44. Edutech: Computational thinking for
everyone
Scracht, learning programming with kids.

45. Citilab, where you can learn to innovate:
90s. “Internet is for everyone”
2010. To innovate is for everyone.

46. EnoLL-Europe 2010:
the tip of a global open living labs movement

47. Redesigning the whole “national innovation
systems”
The national innovation systems
(Nelson,Rosenberg, Porter... 1993).
Characteristics:
– Science-Technology-Industry
– Science the Enless Frontier, V. Bush
– Linear model. R&D--->Innovation
– Triple Helix, Universities, Gov., Industry
– Clusters, (Porter)...

48. 2. Opening user-driven models of innovation
and research.
Characteristics:
-Open networks - Internet's E2E Principle
-Distributed virtual environments
-Bottom up approach
-From innovation to R&D.
-From innovation from periphery to the
center.
-Long-Tail Innovation.

49. Tahrir Square, Feb 11, 2011

50. Moltes gracies
artur.serra@i2cat.net