intheAIR ‘Off-Campus’ Workshop 012
Thursday, Oct 25, 20126:55 AM — Monday, Oct 29, 20126:55 AMEDT
| Barcelona, Spain
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“A growing part of the general public is concerned that cities are planned and governed in a responsible way. In the contemporary information society, however, the democratic obligation of the citizens to rigorously inform themselves so that they can participate in public affairs has become impossible to fulfill. Rather than submitting to the opinions of self-proclaimed experts, citizens need new ways to make sense of what is going on around them.” “Accountability technologies stand for new innovative approaches to bottom-up governance: technologies to monitor those in power to make sure that they are held accountable for their actions. Accountability technologies are designed to support coordinated data collection, analysis and communication to achieve social change. The past years saw many examples dedicated to this concern: citizen sensing of traffic noise or congestion, pollution; monitoring of mobility infrastructures and urban energy consumption; whistleblowers revealing corruption and misuse of power.” Source: Sensing Place/Placing Sense II, hosted by Austrian Institute of Technology. uAbureau + UrbanBuddy present: intheAIR ‘Off-Campus’ Workshop 012 The five day workshop will introduce participants to new digital analysis tools for their ongoing observational research studies. These tools will place an emphasis on mobile devices (for data collection), and open source software (for data visualization), allowing the participants to freely explore how they can unveil a new perspective of the City. Smart-phone technology has opened up a whole new stream for data collection as well for sharing information, and it is the goal of the this workshop to demonstrate how the participants can create a digital environment that in turn will influence community interactions and perception of and with the built environment. IoT LAB The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to uniquely identifiable objects (things) and their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure. If the average ‘joe citizen’ had the ability to interact with objects and these could be modified remotely, via identity devices, this could transform the way we would go about our daily lives, altering our routines and behaviour which would directly impact upon the way we occupy and use our cities. Actually this “if” condition is irrelevant as it has been happening for years already. The beauty is that it is so embedded in our daily lives that we don’t even realize what and how we’re doing it. Collaborating with the IoTbcn community, we are interested in researching, through action; the motivations, strategies and tactics of decision makers advocating the concept of the ‘Smart City.’ The ‘Smart City’ has been introduced as a strategic and marketing device that aims to encompass modern urban production factors in a common framework. It aims to highlight the growing importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), social and environmental capital in the next stage of the process of urbanisation, in which the IoT are conjoined within. It is a fashionable policy concept in which this workshop will stress the role of ‘human capital,’ the participatory processes of education and learning in urban development and design. This laboratory type scenario will pair participants with industry experts from local and international advanced technology development companies specializing in the application of ICT’s in the urban environment of Barcelona. Not only giving participants an inside look, but the opportunity to actively contribute, into the creation of invisible datascapes that are engineering and transforming the urban landscape of Barcelona Air Quality Egg We are pleased to announce the support of COSM and their sponsorship of 20 pre-released Air Quality Eggs (125USD each) for the Off Campus ‘intheAIR’ workshop. The Air Quality Egg is a project aiming to give citizens a way to participate in the conversation about air quality. It is composed of a sensing device that measures the air quality in the immediate environment and an on-line community that is sharing this information in real-time. It is a community-developed, open source project that is driven by people who care about the air they breathe. Come join us in implementing Barcelona’s first open community sensor infrastructure! WORKSHOP TEAM - uAbureau James Brazil - Project Direction James Brazil is an Australian Design Architect + Master Builder. Based between Barcelona, Spain + Medellín, Colombia- James leads uA research into unsolicited urban practices and uA development of digital fabrication, assembly and construction processes. Consulting with industry, academic and cultural partners, James works to develop innovative and holistic strategies on how digital tools and fabrication can become accessible to designers and communities alike. Currently James co-directs the Urban Activators program in partnership with Eme3 International Architecture Festival- Barcelona [Spain] and co-founded the INSITU research program in partnership with Blokcad Lab- Medellin [Colombia]. Pablo Baquero - Lead Instructor Pablo is a Colombian Architect, Artist and Digital Designer, based between Barcelona and Greece. He Holds a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia University. Currently Pablo is a Ph.D. candidate at Esarq, Barcelona designing innovative modeling systems related with emergence and biological procedures in teaching and research fields. He coordinates and leads ArquiBio, ToolinGroup and FaberArium in various international seminars/workshops related to Computation, Biology, and Digital Fabrication. Furthermore, he is involved in different research projects with Karl Chu and Alberto Estevez, investigating how genetics and natural systems behave with future architecture. He leads the uA research field into computational fluids and online applications for architecture. COLLABORATORS: Claudio Bianchi Cifuentes Street Photographer, born in Mexico City and raised in Toronto, Canada. Been travelling around the world as a documenter of daily urban scenes as a street photographer for over 10 years, focusing mostly on larger overpopulated cities. Shooting predominantly in black and white, his main objective is to take photos that capture the missing beauty in even the smallest detail that is embodied within daily life on the street. Interpreting buildings, streets, faces and places, in the 22@, selectively through the lens is his passion. Marc Pous Computer Engineer (UPC). A member of mobility research group at Barcelona Digital Technology Center (BDigital) and he is currently leading the technical activities of different research projects related with cities, Internet of Things and urban computing. He created the IoT Munich community and co-organized the 2nd IoT Barcelona meetup in 2012. Sergi Martinez Android Development Team Lead at Tempos 21 (Atos Mobility division) and co-founder of Catdroid, the Catalonian Android Community group and developer of Appunta, a mobile Augmented Reality and geographical representation engine. More than 11 years working on localization (l18n) industry, and fully committed to Android development in the last years, with a long experience in the teaching field for technical and non-technical profiles and with a real passion for knowledge sharing. Ed Borden COSM’s evangelist to the Internet of Things community. Founder of Sensemakers, a collaborative community of technologists in the US and Europe working on urban social problems, as well as the Air Quality Egg, an open participatory air quality sensor network. Eleven years in tech startups designing and marketing products on the bleeding edge. MASTERCLASSES 1.city sessions - street photography 2.urban apps - mobile development 3. live processing - data visualisation 4. sensing air-quality - open communities To learn more or to register, please e-mail us directly at [email protected]
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