This document discusses the vision and work of i2CAT and Citilab in connecting cultural centers and citizens through advanced media networks. The key points are:
1) i2CAT has partnered with cultural centers across Europe to interconnect them with high-speed optical networks and share high-resolution media content between the centers.
2) Citilab in Cornellà, Spain serves as a "laboratory for the community" where local needs and projects are prioritized in areas like digital literacy, music, education, and support for seniors.
3) The work of i2CAT and Citilab aims to open up innovation and research to more citizens and communities through distributed virtual environments and a bottom-up
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
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.
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
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%)
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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
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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.
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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.
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.