Abbreviated version of presentation delivered at Amsterdam Smart City hackathon in the Amsterdam Arena at Jun2 2nd, 2015.

1. Illuminated Cities
Frank Kresin
Research Director
@kresin / frank@waag.org

2. SMART CITIES
TOP DOWN MINDFRAME
MAXIMISING EFFICIENCY
MINIMISING FRICTION
STIFFLING INNOVATION

4. Smart Citizens
• Will take responsibility for the place they live, work and love
• Value access over ownership, contribution over power
• Will ask forgiveness, not permission
• Know where they can get tools, knowledge & support
• Value empathy, dialogue and trust
• Appropriate technology, rather than accept it as is
• Will help the people that struggle with smart stuff
• Ask questions, before they come up with answers
• Take part in design efforts to come up with better solutions
• Work agile, prototype early, test quickly, start all over
• Will not stop in the face of huge barriers
• Share their knowledge and their learning, because they know
this is where true value comes from
http://waag.org/nl/blog/manifesto-smart-citizens

5. 1. CITY OF LABS

6. Fablabs, Wetlabs, Maker Spaces
http://fablab.waag.org

7. http://makezine.com/2006/12/01/the-makers-bill-of-rights/

8. https://coderdojo.com

9. Amsterdam Smart Citizens Lab
http://waag.org/en/project/smart-citizens-lab

10. II. HACKABLE CITIES

12. PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE
OPEN STANDARDS
OPEN SOFTWARE
OPEN ACCESS
OPEN INNOVATION

13. Enabling developers

15. III. POLICY OVER TECHNOLOGY

16. Wicked Problems

17. http://www.evgenymorozov.com

18. NOW WHAT?

19. Technology is not Neutral
http://digitalsocial.eu

20. Understand the Rules

21. Design for Smarter Cities
• Your citizens know more than you.
• Don’t separate the design and development process
• Embrace self-organization & civic initiative, but help to make the
results sustainable and scalable.
• Never rely on consultants that will sell consultancy, not solutions.
• Have binding decisions made at the lowest level possible and
actively preach self-governance.
• Small, connected systems tend to fail sometimes; large systems will
fail for sure.
• Build systems based on reciprocity and transparency.
• Reuse existing parts and design your additions for reuse, adding to
the public domain and strengthening its capacity to act and learn.
https://www.waag.org/nl/blog/design-rules-smarter-cities

22. Embrace Change

23. ILLUMINATED CITIES
BOTTOM UP MINDFRAME
MAXIMISING POSSIBILITIES
EMBRACING FRICTION
ENABLING INNOVATION
https://tinyurl.com/illuminated-cities

24. • Compete or Cooperate?
• Ethics or Aesthetics?
• Open or Closed?
• Paid or ‘Free’?
• App or End?
• Why wait?
Open Questions

25. Sint Antoniesbreestraat 69
1011 HB Amsterdam
waag.org / info@waag.org
Frank Kresin
Research Director
@kresin / frank@waag.org