Notes on how to rethink and shape the urban space with design and technology. Talk I gave at BMWi Guggenheim Labs / Mashable Innovation Series in Berlin 16.7.2012. See full transcribed talk at http://nordkapp.fi/blog/2012/07/talk-stories-behaviour-and-purpose/

1. Stories, behaviour and purpose
— notes on how to rethink and shape
the urban space with design and technology.
Sami Niemelä
@samin
http://nordkapp.fi

2. in Helsinki…
ISTOCKPHOTO

3. New bikepath Baana in Helsinki
image: http://www.dexigner.com/news/25293

4. Chapel of Silence, Helsinki
Kebab
INTERNET MEME http://www.riemurasia.net/jylppy/media.php?id=98593&c=5

5. …not from.
PHOTO CREDIT Jussi Pasanen http://jussipasanen.com

6. PHOTO CREDIT Wikipedia;”lawnmover”

7. PHOTO CREDIT Fiskars.com, Artek.fi, Iittala.fi

8. Rethink / -make:

9. helsinki.urbanflow.io

10. Howard SIlverman, Opele & Places 2009:
http://www.peopleandplace.net/media_library/image/2008/12/19/pace_layering

12. Paimiio chair (left) , designed for the Paimio Sanatorium(right). Both designed by Alvar
Aalto. Images by Artek and Wikipedia

13. “bits on places”
SOURCE MISSING, SOZ
have a kitten instead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRXgpR2lzo4

14. traces + artefacts
PHOTO CREDIT Xylobands http://www.facebook.com/Xylobands

15. PHOTO CREDIT Teppo Kotirinta / Nordkapp http://norfkapp.fi

16. STRAVA http://strava.com

17. ENJOYABLE
value for the user →
DESIRABLE
USABLE
USEFUL

18. Affordance much?
GOOGLE PROJECT GLASS https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts

19. things happening now

20. 1/ Software eats the world

21. BELKIN WEMO with IFTT integration http://www.belkin.com/wemo/

22. 2/ Funding 2.0
Smart watch Pebble @ KICKSTARTER.COM

23. SITRA SDL BRICKSTARTER http://brickstarter.org/brickstarter-prototype-sketches-questions/

24. 3/ Quantified everything

25. HELSINKI TRANSPORT TRAVEL TIME MAP http://mak.hsl.fi/#
Travel time with public transport Travel time riding a bike
http://datavisualization.ch/showcases/visualizing-138-years-of-popular-science-magazine/

26. NIKE FUELhttp://nikefguel.com

27. the dark matter

28. Privacy
vs value

29. Behaviour
and language

30. Commerce
PHOTO CREDIT http://www.littledoremi.com/

31. Cracks & seams

32. “The strongest impacts of an emergent
technology are always unanticipated. You can’t
know what people are going to do until they get
their hands on it and start using it on a daily
basis, using it to make a buck and using it for
criminal purpose and all the di≠erent things
that people do.”— william gibson on the art of fiction at the Paris Review
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6089/the-art-of-fiction-no-211-william-gibson

33. shaping cities

34. PHOTO CREDIT http://www.flickr.com/photos/tulenheimo/6237634073/

35. Data → Visualization
→ Emotion
→ Impact
MIT TRASH TRACK | SENSEABLE CITY LAB MIT

36. Motivation + action → Behaviour change
ISTOCKPHOTO

37. Ebb&
Flow&
Wants&
Needs.
HELSINKI CITY PUBLIC TRANSPORT VISUALIZED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGllzWt0acU

38. Make change happen
CANDY CHANG, http://candychang.com

39. “Every good product I've ever seen is
because a group of people cared deeply
about making something wonderful
that they and their friends wanted.
They wanted to use it themselves.”
— Steve Jobs, quoted on http://stevetold.us/#ixzz20MEuRKEU

40. thank you, danke, kiitos.
@samin
http://nordkapp.fi