The document discusses concepts for empowering citizens to have more control over their cities through digital tools and platforms. It presents several scenarios for how emerging technologies could impact urban life, including personalized, commercial, open source/data, collaborative, accessible, and compatible futures. It also describes some prototype projects, including an Urban Content Management System that could provide direct input and control over city services and architecture through plug-and-play interfaces. The document raises questions about how unused civic spaces in cities like Amsterdam could be connected to social networks and configured for temporary or adaptive reuse.

1. Digital urban infrastructures for user empowerment Explorations of concepts, tools and platforms that allow for civic control over their cities Source: http://www.prettymaps.stamen.com

2. Techno utopian/dystopian city Source: Tony Garnier – Une Cité Industrielle

3. Classical values vs. Modern methods Source: Tony Garnier – Une Cité Industrielle

4. Research the impact of emerging technologies on city life and formulate future scenario’s Source: Keiichi Matsuda – Domesti-city

5. Scenario’s Personal? The Urban Future is:

6. Source: Keiichi Matsuda – Domesti-city Personalized The Urban Future will probably be: Scenario’s

7. Source: Keiichi Matsuda – Domesti-city Scenario’s Commercial The Urban Future will probably be:

8. Scenario’s: Open Source/Data/GOV/Design The Urban Future can be:

9. Scenario’s: Collaborative The Urban Future should be: Project: Hypermud, Archadia (a.o) with Waag Society and DUS-architecten for PICNIC11

10. Scenario’s: Accessible For everyone equally For free The Urban Future should be:

11. Scenario’s Compatible People Objects Software hardware The Urban Future should be:

12. Prototyping and building with present technologies Project: Cube 64 by projectteam including Archadia for www.smartinpublic.nl

13. Create infrastructures for future technologies: the Urban CMS Source: Urban CMS, article by Archadia for Volume/Archis magazine

14. Urban CMS - Content Open Data Geolocated social media Sentient objects (Internet of Things) People + devices Aggregated and mashed objects

15. Urban CMS - Database Urban info, news, laws & regulation, history, communication Scripts, codes and algorithms, schematics, calculations Sensor feeds cadastre Building code Zoning law Architectural patterns CAD to CNC Cost calc Structural calc Permit checker

16. Urban CMS - output Print, mobile, screens, AR Services, Administration Direct output of your actions onto media and services: Services (police - garbage disposal - traffic signs) are directly linked to the scripts that run them

17. Control your data Direct input through plug and play interfaces Plug-in modules for specific tasks Urban CMS - administration Direct input to the system. Each city service that is control-able has its own interface: From personal architecture to city flow optimization.

18. Site specific online design plug-in Cadastre Building code Zoning law Calculations Building kit Neighborhood feedback Urban CMS – Personal architectural interface Source: Wikihouse.cc Site feedback permits

24. 1,6 million square meters of empty office space in Amsterdam

25. Vacant NL

26. Abandoned unbuilt or sparsely spaces – urban fallow land

27. Connect available empty civic space to networks

28. Findable, social connected unused spaces

29. configurability and socialization

30. Contracts, regulation and legal requirements

31. Partnerships with existing Urban incubators, housing corportions , local government

32. / Contact Who: Mark Dek Sites : www.archadia.nl Twitter : @archad1a Email : info@markdek.nl Credits http://www.geekologie.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/daleremote Megahouse – Atalier Hitoshi Abe http://openbuildings.com/buildings/place-du-quartier-des-spectacles-profile-4873 http://www.designboom.com/ Contact Who: James Burke Sites : www.vurb.eu Twitter : @vurb Email : james@vurb.eu QUESTIONS?