Community Now? The Politics of Participatory Design WHEN: February 19th – 21st, 2015 WHERE: Jewish Museum Berlin, Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin

1. Michael Smyth
Centre for Interaction Design
Edinburgh Napier University, UK
@michael_smyth
Invisible Spaces & Hidden Places -
Exploring the Spatial Capital of Cities

2. Belfast, N. Ireland

3. Venice (2013)

4. This space has become larger, more fluid,
distributed and complex. It is filled with data
streams from all types of sources.

5. Urban Interaction Design is a response to this escalation

7. Licensed Taxi Drivers protest against UBER in London, Summer 2014.

8. Signal - John Stanmeyer (2013)

9. Felton Street Emptiness - Nikola Bojic (2011)

11. What follows are two of Design Fictions created as part of the
UrbanIxD project, that speculate on what it might be like to live
in the hybrid city of the future ....
Each fiction is a story that makes us reflect on how we lead our
lives today.

12. CUBA (Co-ordination of Urban Busy Areas) - UrbanIxD Summer School 2013

13. Eutropia
During the Great World Recession of the 21st century, the authorities
of the City of Eutropia signed an exclusive agreement with a
consortium of mega corporations trading the vast amounts of
information the city generates.
The new economy of the city is based on data and its export.
Through the exportation of data the city has secured independence
and well-being for all its inhabitants. This is a city with no
unemployment, a city in which no one needs to work.
In Eutopia “privacy” is just an ideological delusion.
Authors: Ivica Mitrović and Oleg Šuran (Arts Academy, University of Split); Director and Editor: Glorija Lizde; Camera: Andrea Kaštelan;
Sound: Marko Jukić; Cast: Oleg Šuran, Matko Elezović, Nikola Marangunić, Maja Petrić, Mario Raguž, Ivana Kevo, Ivica Mitrović, Nikša Vukša;
VFX: Jakov Šuran; Costume Designers: Margita Videtić
and Katarina Bilan; Props: Oleg Šuran and Ivica Mitrović; Based on Čekingrad (Jernej Kejžar, Nera Nejašmić, Oleg Šuran; Nelly Ben Hayoun;
Ivica Mitrović; Interakcije, UMAS, 2011).

14. Eutropia - UrbanIxD Summer School 2013 - https://vimeo.com/111513822

15. www.michael-smyth.co.uk
www.urbanixd.eu
@michael_smyth