Presentation for a session on the renewal of Centrum Nieuw West in Amsterdam, to introduce the smart city.

1. The three paradigms of the smart city
Iskander Smit, October 19, 2018

2. info.nl
@iskandr
innovation director
organiser
lab director
visiting professor PhD

3. Simple solutions for complex digital issues

4. thingscon.nl

5. Partnerships in Cities of Things

6. Ideation of a future scenario characterized
by provocative design concepts.
TaCIT
Things as Citizens Ideation Toolkit

7. what is the smart city all about?
A bit of history

8. The Smart City as machine
IBM TheSmarterCity

9. The Sensing City
SF Park pilot

10. Smart City as Service Layer
Car2Go et al

11. The (Open) Data City
Smart citizen kit

12. Smart City Infrastructure
Studio Roosegaarde & Heijmans

13. LEaD The Way https://vimeo.com/27450931
Is the main purpose for the smart
city to be more efficient?

14. Hello Lamppost
Or is the city a place to play?

15. Can the city make you healthy?
PAUL; Playful Active Urban Living

16. Facilitating local initiatives
LomboXnet; Community driven energy
Combining sun power, electric cars for storage, energy plans

17. What will happen when the city
becomes media?
Hyper-reality

18. The city as a platform (or canvas)

19. The merge of humans,
smart things and
city as a platform
Ross Atkin, TheCleverCity.net

20. Living as a service
constructed instances of objects and services in the digitised space

21. Different approaches in East and West
A current future

22. Company driven
Sidewalk Labs, Toronto with Google

23. Government driven
Social credit system, Shenzhen, China

24. NWA ROUTE NAAR
SMART, LIVEABLE CITIES
RESILIENCEURBAN TECHNOLOGIES
SAFE BIG DATA CITIES CITIZEN EMPOWERMENTSMART POLDEREN
Citizen driven
Dutch Science Agenda

25. Urban landscape is more than digitised
it is a combination of sensing objects

26. Titel
Rush Hour
Black Sheep Films: https://vimeo.com/106226560

27. 1. city as a dashboard
2. city as intelligent infrastructure
3. cities of things
Smart City paradigms

28. Paradigm #1
The smart city as a dashboard
- Awareness building
- Then back to policy and regulation

29. Air Quality apps
Plume Air Report

30. The Control Room
A focus on operational excellence and serving economic values mainly
The Creative City
The city as an innovation lens, to develop new services
The Smart Citizen
A city as political and civic community
Three types of roles
for the sensing city
Martijn de Waal, 2017

32. Paradigm #2
The smart city as
an intelligent infrastructure
- Mitigation (sensing + actuation)
- Opportunity for concerted action

33. Smart City Infrastructure, current state
Direct Line / Umbrellium

34. Roboats flexible infrastructure
AMS / MIT Senseable City Lab

35. Paradigm #3
Cities of Things
- Things as social entities
- Cannot be controlled (like humans)
but can be governed
- Need for social contracts
(pacts, agreements)

36. Delivery pods
Starship technologies

37. Delivery pods
Starship technologies

38. 38

39. Things as social entities
Data-enabled artefacts with
performing capabilities
Able to:
- Connect with existing networks of data
- Sense and collect real time data
- Act proactively
- Behave socially

40. Artificial intelligence is about
appropriateness
What are we are good at?
- Uniquely human capabilities
- Uniquely artificial capabilities
- Historically situated and changing
Changing
context
Kuijer, L., & Giaccardi, E. (2018). Co-performance: Conceptualizing the Role of Artificial
Agency in the Design of Everyday Life. Proc. CHI 2018. ACM Press: New York.

41. Smart cities of today
Monitoring…
Quantifying…
Replacing…
Partially efficient,
fixed solutions
Smart cities of tomorrow
Including…
Complementing…
Redistributing…
Appropriate,
fluid solutions

42. People take delight not in urban
technological wonders, but in how the city
can empower them to fulfil their own dreams.
This is where cityness lies.
Sen Lin, 2018

43. Thanks!
Iskander Smit, @iskandr, October 19, 2018