Revealing the City. Designing Contextual Interfaces for Social Interaction

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This workshop invites participants to collaboratively develop new ways to communicate concealed or unknown urban data.

What you will get out of this workshop
This workshop will combine ethnography, ideation and low-fidelity prototyping, to promote hyperlocal communication in urban space.

Workshop theme
Fueled by movements like the quantified self, big data and smart cities, many human activities in urban space are now being captured, cross-referenced, analyzed, and visualized into various forms of persuasive feedback. However, some data sources like the identities, beliefs, values, norms or attitudes of places, visitors and inhabitants are still hard to capture. Yet, revealing such data in public space potentially benefits the urban community, such as by confronting people with local beliefs or by exposing dormant yet popular initiatives.

This workshop invites participants to discover opportunities for communicating urban data. Through ideation and collaboration, prototypes will be designed that exemplify these new scenarios for public data dissemination in urban space. We aim to stimulate discussion on issues such as: 1) the sources of currently untapped urban data; 2) the role of technology in communicating such data; and 3) the potential hyperlocal impact of representing this data on promoting social interaction or participation.

Organisers
Niels Wouters
Research[x]Design, KU Leuven, Belgium
Sandy Claes
Research[x]Design, KU Leuven, Belgium
Thomas Laureyssens
Research[x]Design and Luca School of Arts, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jorgos Coenen
Research[x]Design, KU Leuven, Belgium
prof. Andrew Vande Moere
Research[x]Design, KU Leuven, Belgium

Date and location
Workshop 9
Title: Revealing the City. Designing Contextual Interfaces for Social Interaction
Date: 22/4 10:00 – 17:00
Location: TBA

More information on this workshop
Website: http://rxd.architectuur.kuleuven.be/revealthecity/
E-mail: niels.wouters@asro.kuleuven.be

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