Team 4 - Builders at Play

The Internet of Things Workshop II: Builders at Play September 2-4 Waag Society AmsterdamSmart in Public - Team 4

Team 4 Jose Subero [participated in initial brainstorm phase] field: architect involved in: existing conditions and possibilities for transformation interested in: to see what could happen at a complex site like NDSM, creating new scenarios for existing mutual spaces Tony Michiels field: industrial designer involved in: ideation in product & communication design interested in: looking beyond technical possibilities: no mere gadgets, but to create something that is modest and has true value Karel Millenaar [participated in initial brainstorm phase] field: game designer involved in: game design for public space to influence people’s experience Interested in: how to create tools to master space. Tools should afford true access to the environment so that inhabitants learn to make it their own Smart in Public

NDSM Passe-partout

NDSMVarious levels of participation, of (co)ownershipSimilar to nature, NDSM is in constant flux, ofshifting the balance between the differentparticipators of the space A microcosm ofThe NDSM holds different needs,companies, artist studio’s, functions,leisure activities like a variousskatepark, tourist hotspot, frequencies ofvarious events, etc occupation

The diversity dilemma of the NDSMHow to enhance the perceivedrelevance for active intermarriageof permanent community hubsand welcoming ad hoc participants?

Patterns of Participation:NDSM owners permanentNDSM friends irregular intervalsNDSM tourists (hotspot) singular

Visible community hub identitiesconditions for ‘open end’ (co)ownershipno prescribed participationopportunities for ambiguous interactioniterate towards a playful NDSM

Diversity has a strong affordance forintermarriageClosely knitted communities paired with visibilityof (co)ownership stimulate open endedresourceful participation.Intercommunal exchange can be stimulatedthrough utilized situated mobile communicationand locative tools that don’t require continuousattention

human scale activity fills the void with purpose

the void: traceless of past activity

cater for ambiguity and the unforeseen

Physical identificationbracelets, totem, flagsDigitized identificationhybrid community profilesocial objects

identification of different groups of activity

personal identification of heritage

a key grands access, slowly becoming a ‘passe partout’

locative visibility of (co)ownership

After my first week of working for the Noorderlicht restaurant, my bossgives me a token that he is wearing on his wrist too, it is a beautiful andvery nicely made object that I have seen with other coworkers as well. I amreally proud being part of this group of people and wear the token all thetime. It simply looks great and has a nice feel to it.When my friends ask me about the token and where he can get one, I invitehim over to the restaurant because I know that dear friends and somecustomers can get a similar token that is slightly different than the one Ihave received. At their second visit, even though I was not working, myfriends get the best table and a complementary order because mycolleagues recognize their token.Two weeks later, during the first big festival I notice a lot of people withsimilar tokens to mine, we all have a festival token too that I got as anentrance ticket. One of my friends is wearing his Noorderlicht and thefestival token in combination with another variation. He tells me that thisone belongs to the skatepark family and gives him a discount when he goesskating.

awareness of others

hybrid ID

During the day I met somebody who has his own studio on the NDSM andhis token is the coolest one I have seen so far, it is a subscription for adiscount to all the events of the NDSM. He shows me a mobile applicationthat he could download when checkin in at his first festival via Foursquareat one of the previous festivals. There are a lot of of photos in the appstream and a few of them are posted by one most regular clients. I wasalready wondering why this person did not wear a token, apparently somepeople choose be part of our group only by digital means.After installing the app I can only read the several group streams, but afterentering a combination puzzle of symbols that are on my token I amallowed to comment and post my own media. I never thought thesesymbols would have any use, the symbols are also part of a sculpture closeto the Noordelicht entrance,There is a distinct Noordelicht icon on my profile that merged into anothershape after I join the festival group, again by solving a simple symbolicpuzzle. Now my uploads are also showing up in the other group, where oneof my pictures is commented on by a member, who is also participating in alittle yoga gathering that is located on the NDSM terrain, immediately I signup for their try out lessens.After a couple of weeks the NDSM has shown me so many moreopportunities than I thought were around during my first visit and I start toexplore them more actively.

common grounds

3 months later my profile icon is one of the most diverse of the severalcommunities and I get an invitation to a unfamiliar place on the NDSM topick up a present. I really have no idea what that could possibly be but amreally curious.I come earlier to work the next day and try to find the place. There is thisno sign and the building is not very inviting but there are people inside thathand me a little package after I show them the invitation. It is a token that Ihave never seen before.There is something really special about it even though it is the mostminimal and unimposing token compared to the others. Looking around Isee somebody who is sitting on a table littered with tools, working on thefinishing touches of a token.From this point on I keep getting special invites and can simply walk intoany paid event on the NDSM.

revealing the ecosystem of appropriationlocative activity transition and participation spikeyour personal baseline with communal activity

mobile applicationidentificationcommunicationinteraction

networked environmentswrite and readable networked community hubtotemsreveal the configuration of the space and themoodparticipation only by opting in and makingyourself visible

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