Technologies like smart sensors can help solve urban challenges. Innovations improve the quality of life and enhance safety, sustainability and livability. For example by better using available capacity of energy infrastructures. On the other hand: novel technologies that collect and analyze data could impact values such as autonomy, privacy, transparency and inclusiveness.
The Responsible Sensing Lab explores how to integrate society’s public and democratic values in the design of sensing systems in public space. It is a testbed for conducting rigorous and transparent research in order to create a ‘responsible’ digital city.
Within the Responsible Sensing Lab academics, practitioners, computer scientists, policy makers, psychologists, designers and hardware experts are invited to connect and work together to (re)design, prototype, test and implement responsible sensing systems.
In our session we would love to present our current projects and challenges to host a valuable discussion.
Hosts: Thijs Turèl and Coen Bergman.
The Responsible Sensing Lab is a joint effort of AMS Institue and the City of Amsterdam. It is part of the Responsive Urban Digitization program; a three year collaboration in which we closely work with experts at TU Delft Industrial Design Faculty.
During our session, we are hoping to yield valuable insights from different perspectives. We would love to integrate these insights to bring our challenges to a next level.
What is the goal and/or outcome of your session?:Invite experts, critics, activists, artists, academics, practitioners, computer scientists, policy makers, psychologists, designers and citizens to join our mission: to integrate society’s public and democratic values in the design of sensing systems in public space.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:When we have a small number of participant, the discussion will be very concrete. The host will handle the questions.
When we have a large number we will work with the pollfunction and a moderator to handle the question asked by the participants.
Responsible Sensing Lab
Program Manager Responsible Digitization @ AMS Institute
Innovation Developer Public Tech @CTO, City of Amsterdam