How do we make use of new media technologies in urban design? At the conference Social Cities of Tomorrow (Amsterdam 17-2-2012) we propose the concept of the social city as an alternative design approach to 'smart cities'.

1. What Are
Social Cities
of Tomorrow?
Martijn de Waal www.themobilecity.nl

2. Wait-a-minute:
Where are all the people?

3. It’s not a blueprint;
It’s a design approach
a way of thinking about cities
that are highly technological
but they’re not about technology
they are about people
http://scodpub.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/garden-cities-by-ebenezer-howard/

4. ‘If only we can get to an architecture
that really responded to human wish as
it occurred’
Peter Cook, Archigram

5. ‘There is no desire to communicate
with everybody, only with those whose
thoughts and feelings are related to
our own’
Archigram

6. Social Cities:
If only we can get to cities
where citizens feel they belong,
and feel the city belongs to them as well?
How do we design for ‘ownership’?

7. Designing for ‘ownership’
Engage and empower
‘publics’ (groups of people)
to act on
communally shared issues

8. communally shared issues & resources

9. (Open) Data
as a new
collective resource

10. Using
The Internet of Things
To bring out these
‘issues of concern’
Senseable City Lab Trash Track
Trash Track MIT Senseable City Lab

11. Bringing ‘Issues’ back
in Public Space
In the Air (Medialab Prado)
http://intheair.es/

12. Engage &
Act

13. CoCollage Create a Sense of Place
http://www.cocollage.com/

14. Making individual
contributions visible
Cisco Urban EcoMap
http://ams.urbanecomap.org/?locale=en_US

15. Commons The Game
Engage through play
http://www.commonsthegame.com/

16. Biketastic
http://urban.cens.ucla.edu/projects/cyclesense/

17. Fallen Fruit
http://www.fallenfruit.org/

18. Publics

19. Collaborative Consumption ‘collectivising’ private
resources
http://collaborativeconsumption.com/

20. Geluidsnet ‘networked public’
http://collaborativeconsumption.com/

21. Social Cities of Tomorrow:
Engage and empower
‘publics’ (groups of people)
to act on
communally shared issues

22. How do we design Social Cities?
Can we port the collaborative
principles of online culture to
urban design?
What are new models for
organizing various stakeholders
around complex issues?
What are new models for
collaboration between
disciplines?

23. Thank you!
Further Reading:
‘Ownership in the Hybrid City’
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www.socialcitiesoftomorrow.nl
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