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Project: Smart Citizen Presenter: Fab Lab Barcelona and Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Interviewees: Guillem Camprodon; Tomas Diez www.smartcitizen.me Photos: Smart Citizen Team The N.I.C.E. Award 2015 is looking for new and stimulating innovations that are solutions to global problems. What problem do you address with your project? Cities are the largest creation of human kind. For many centuries we have been adding complexity and technology to the urban centres, creating places with the biggest problems we can find today in terms of sustainability and contamination of the planet. Being a huge producer of problems, cities offer at the same time great opportunities to address those problems by using available, accessible and open source technology. We believe that Smart Citizen can build an ecosystem of participation of citizens in the production of valuable data and information about our cities, which can help to better understand, transform and improve the places where next generations will live. Smart Citizen is about the appropriation of technology for taking over the active construction of the city. Our idea started with sensors and data visualisation, but we aim to grow and to develop applications and partnerships that will allow us to construct tools for the political participation of people in their city and to create a new data economy by implementing block chain technologies in the future versions of our platforms. What reactions have you received yet? Is the world ready for your solutions? We crowd-funded the development of the initial phase of the project twice with the result of close to 1,000 people who actually supported us with funds. Furthermore, we have been able to collaborate with large corporations like Intel and Cisco in special projects and events to develop Smart Citizen. At the same time, governments of cities like Amsterdam, Barcelona and Manchester have actively supported the deployment of Smart Citizen in order to align it with their Smart City strategies – which is a paradox, since Smart Citizen initially started as a critic exercise against the big brother and corporative approach of the Smart City agenda. We have been collaborating with researchers all over the world in universities like the University College London, the Royal College of Art, the MIT, among others, and in different projects related with them. Finally, we are now getting EU funding support to develop research around the technology and its implementation strategies in different cities in Europe. As the world is going open source, we are about to record the largest expansion of our project – from 1,200 sensors and 3,200 users – and thus to play our part in the massive growth of the Internet of Things devices and open data applications. The N.I.C.E. Award 2015 focusses on digital innovation through culture. How do you see the cultural sector influenced by digitalisation? In Europe and most of the urbanised areas of the world it is almost impossible to talk about culture without talking about the digital revolution that we have been living in during the last 40 years. From computers to smartphones, our entire lives have dramatically changed, affecting how we learn, work, play, create and live. It is extremely important to create a culture with strong values on humanism through digital platforms, not only using screens and keyboards to represent traditional cultures, but by reframing the meaning of culture in a connected world and society. For us it is of high importance that these values are constructed around the open source and accessible knowledge on how things are made, how they can be shared and how they can be useful and valuable to others – and not just to create another start-up to make a little money and then be sold to a larger corporation. Digital culture should help build a new economy and a value set that can enhance the role of people in the production and control of their lives. 48
N.I.C.E. AWARD 2015 / SHORTLIST Project: Smarter Than You Think Presenter: Savion Ray, Dyslexia International Brussels, Belgium Interviewees: Bisera Savoska; Patricia Lopes www.savionray.com Photo: Savion Ray, creative agency The N.I.C.E. Award 2015 is looking for new and stimulating innovations that are solutions to global problems. What problem do you address with your project? Dyslexia is a learning disorder affecting at least one in ten people worldwide. At the moment, people know very little about the condition and it is difficult for them to empathise with people who suffer from it. Innovation in technology can serve as a great tool to raise awareness and empathy towards people with dyslexia and therefore prevent self-esteem issues, depression and education interruptions. In our project, we use technology to simulate the reading experience of a dyslexic person in order to change their mindset about the condition. What reactions have you received yet? Is the world ready for your solutions? of how their reactions may influence others and become compassionate and supportive. The N.I.C.E. Award 2015 focusses on digital innovation through culture. How do you see the cultural sector influenced by digitalization? Digital solutions make it much easier for people to solve problems and open an array of new doors for creative expression. We are no longer limited by a medium and can interact with an exhibit in a much more direct manner or make the interaction more random than before. Moreover, it can make culture more accessible to people with disabilities of many sorts, making it easier for them to experience what they could not experience before. People that have participated in the experiment experience what it is like to be in the shoes of a dyslexic person. This experience creates understanding and support, just by having the knowledge of what it is like to be on the other side. In addition, even people who have not participated in the experiment themselves but have seen the video produced from the experiment, find themselves more understanding 49
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