Language: English (mozilla)
More and more intelligent systems and objects become part of our lives, and part of the city infrastructure. It can be a partner for citizens to deal with the growing complexity of our connected world, and it can deliver new opportunities for creating services. The city as an AI also challenges the agency we have in our lives.
The neighborhood is an important place for exploring these topics. In two field labs Cities of Things is working towards research through design projects with citizens. What are neighborhood services to improve logistics and create circular waste flows? How can an intelligent system become shared resources, how can it become a place for local entrepreneurship?
We now work in neighborhoods in the cities of Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and Munich on these projects and like to use the broad community of Mozfest for reflection and inspiration on developing citizen-proof concepts. In the session, we focus on the differences between cities for engaging neighborhood communities and the relations between citizens.
In the session, we will sketch the future challenges where we will be living together with technology that is more an initiating partner than a tool. Maria Luce Lupetti will share relevant research. We invite the participants to map one of the case studies on their own neighborhood and discuss what would be the drivers to design cities of things resourceful and responsible.
The learnings will be input for the shaping of the neighborhood projects that Cities of Things is involved in.
The goal is to reflect on the topic of living together with intelligent things and systems on a neighborhood level and learn from the different cultural backgrounds all over the world. The learnings will be input for the shaping of the neighborhood projects that Cities of Things is involved in.
We hope to create awareness with the participants on the consequences of sharing our lives with intelligent objects and cities. We hope to discover aspects that define the trust in these systems that we can translate into design criteria for the projects.
Why did you choose that space? How does your session align with the space description?:We think the topic of trustworthy AI is extra important when we are living inside the intelligent system so to say. In a world becoming more and more complex we are lured into services that promise to remove hassle; at the same time, the systems are taking agency of our lives. Designers can make choices on how to shape these systems in a so-called co-performance strategy where the human and nonhuman actors share the goals.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session? What if 30 participants attend? What if there are 3?:The session is designed to be flexible for different numbers of participants; we can vary with the number of break-out rooms. The experience is that smaller groups with a maximum of 3 people in one breakout room deliver the best results. It is even valuable with 3 people or 30. More will deliver a possible more diverse input.
What happens after MozFest? We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after MozFest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:We will use the learnings as input for the running field lab project. We also will publish the results and build a living document for establishing the design criteria for trustful intelligent neighborhoods. We invite the participants and others to keep reflecting. We will be looking into a format for continuous discussion in follow-up sessions and/or chat room.
What language would you like to host your session in?: English
Iskander was educated as an industrial design engineer at the Technical University in Delft and worked after his studies at the Dutch consumer organization Consumentenbond, pioneering with digital media as a means for the critical services of this consumer organization.
Since 2001 Iskander has worked in different roles for the digital agency INFO. His current position is research director. With INFO_LABS, he worked since 2012 on the next future developments. Vision development is combined with conducting experiments with partners, clients, and universities.
He is a member of the Council Internet of Things and co-founder and organizer of the Behavior Design AMS meetup (2700 members). He initiated and co-organizes the Dutch edition of the Berlin conference ThingsCon in 2014 and is chairman of the foundation ThingsCon Amsterdam. In 2016&2017 he co-initiate and organized TechSolidarityNL; a grassroots community of tech workers in the Netherlands advancing the design and development of more just and egalitarian technology.
In 2017 Iskander was appointed as a Design United visiting professor at TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering in the Connected Everyday Lab. In 2018 he founded the Cities of Things Design Lab with prof Elisa Giaccardi.
In 2021 Cities of Things Foundation is established as a knowledge hub. Iskander is chairman of the foundation.
