The document proposes transitioning the ArtsCILAB into a smart village by using various methodologies including agile project management, media art, relational design, connectionism with neural networks, cybernetics and complex networks science, and trans-disciplinary collaboration. It introduces the key people involved and their backgrounds and seeks other collaborators to help design the smart village using overlapping cultural, generational, and disciplinary perspectives.

1. ARTSCILAB AS A
SMART VILLAGE
Roger F. Malina and Tomás Londoño G.
Advisor: Tommy Ayala
11/12/2023

2. Roger F. Malina
• Professor of Physics and Professor of Art and
Technology
• University of Texas Dallas
• Executive Editor Leonardo Publications, MIT Press
• Training : PhD in Astrophysics, Honorary PhD in Art,
Editorial Methods
• Cultural background: Czech republic, England,
Texas, France. Speaks French and English.
• Age: 73
• Photo: Gar fish caught in Dallas Village

3. Tomás Londoño G.
• From Colombia
• MSc. Project Management
• Age: 28
• Working on projects and interested in:
innovation, technology, entrepreneurship,
consulting, strategy, arts, and media.

4. Advisor: Tommy Ayala
• Software Solutions Expert
• Municipal Innovation and Digital
Transformation.
• MSc Business Analytics
• Technology Management student Concordia
University

5. Smart Villages can be described as small urban and rural
developments interconnected through new technologies implemented
for the benefit of communities that are nurtured through collaborative
knowledge and big data to solve complex problems and offer
innovative solutions.
WE ARE “TRANSITION DESIGNING” OUR
LAB INTO A SMART VILLAGE

6. Security
Transportation
Health
Data
Intelligence
Project Management
Agile Methodologies
Stakeholders
Quantum Computing
Innovation
Cultural Management
Peopleware
Digital
Transformation
Connectivity
Networks
Systems

7. Smart City Entrepreneuship
Ecosystems
Evolutionary model
Concepts Sub concepts
Governance models
Multilevel governance, democratic
renewal, (innovation) policy
Collective intelligence
Public engagement, leveraging
intellectual capital
Ecosystems
Entrepreneurial, Academics, public
organizations, support & enablement
Open Innovation
Open (government) data, sustainable
business models
Technology ICT, IoT, AI, ML, Big Data
Human-centricity
Design process, privacy, ethics,
accessibility, social impact
Elaborated by Tommy Ayala

8. Science of Team Science
Terry Irwin Transition Design
Trans-generational collaboration
Trans-Cultural Collaboration
Trans-disciplinary…….
We are looking for suggestions
on what methods to use to
design a Smart Village
METHODOLOGIES & CONCEPTS

9. Agile
Methodologies &
Project
Management
KANBAN
SCRUM
LEAN
DESIGN
THINKING

10. Media Art
As a method and creative approach to visualize and represent complex information and data. Hardware,
software, and peopleware intertwine to create innovative solutions. (Hackers, computer scientists, artists,
coders, etc.)
The Value of Art, 2010. Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau

11. Ryoji Ikeda - Datamatics
”Is an art project that explores the potential to perceive the invisible multi-substance of data
that permeates our world.”
Datamatics, 2006. Ryoji Ikeda

12. Ezio Manzini - Relational Design
Engendered (producing and contributing) events where collective intelligence and transdisciplinary
communities came together as an innovative approach to solving complex problems.
Ezio Manzini HK Lab, 2002. Ezio Manzini, Laurent Gutierrez
Design, When Everybody Designs,
2015. Ezio Manzini

13. Connectionism – Neural Nets
Input Layer Hidden Layers Output Layer
Why the Godfather of A.I. Fears What He’s Built, 2023.
Joshua Rothman
Neural Networks
An analogy to execute connectivity networks powered by collective intelligence and
knowledge to improve collaboration and productivity.

14. Cybernetics and The Science of Complex Networks
Neuromancer, 1984. William Gibson
Feedback loops between machine and human to keep the system working.
Biological Intelligence – Digital Intelligence

15. UTD ARTSCILAB
• Founded 2014
• Co-founder Designer Cassini Nazir
• Co-Director: Math and Music Professor Kathrine
Evans
• Lab Studio Manager: Evan Acuna
• Current Profile include
• Helping Cancer Patients self manage
• Arts Based Learning for Business
• Creative Disturbance Experimental Publishing
• PhD MFA and Undergraduate students from all
disciplines
• 300 members ( alumnae and current)

16. We are Seeking Collaborating Bards,
Cryers or Minstrels
• With overlapping methods and goals
• Who are themselves creating better smart cities and villages
• Bring cultural, generational, and other points of view
• Please send an email to:
• tommy.f.ayala@gmail.com
• Rmalina@alum.mit.edu
• tomas_londo@hotmail.com

17. CONCLUSIONS

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/geoffrey-hinton-profile-ai
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