Artur Serra Deputy director i2cat

“Connected Smart Cities Network and

Living Labs”. Brussels, May 22-23st 2012

What’s next? Future Internet, Smart Cities, Living Labs and beyond

Future Internet

We have it!

Smart City

We have it!

Barcelona participates in 6 from 15 European projects in the area of Smart Cities.

2010

2011

2012 Open-DAI

iCity

A new City Hall’s Smart City strategy

Urban Planning ICT

Environment

New City Hall “mantra” on Smart Cities

“ A city of self-sufficient neighborhoods , energetically sustainables and hyper-connected... Many slow cities in the smart city”

Antoni Vives, Head of Urban Planning, ICT and Environment. Barcelona

Vicente Guallart, Chief Architect of Barcelona

A new private-public partnership

Barcelona Mobile World Capital (2012-2018)

Still something missing: The citizen!.

Citilab, a first experiment

Seniorlab, Musiclab, Laborlab…

Some lessons learned: 1. Seniors is a new group of age. Ageing society doesn’t mean a sick society. Innovation is not the monopoly of youngers.

1. “Invent your job”, not “looking for a job”. Lesson from Southern

Europe job market. Need radical change in employment policies.

2. Videogames, music, culture…creates jobs. Need of an urgent change in educational curricula.

Innovation Creativity

“Knowledge” “Culture”

A new opportunity in the City of Barcelona

Jaume Ciurana, head of the new area of Culture, Knowledge, Creativity, and Innovation

Inés Garriga, ICUB director of Creativity and Innovation

CINO, The Municipal Chief Innovation Officer.

The “Barcelona Laboratori Cultural” project

a) A Smart City, a Mobile City, needs citizens. A Creative and Innovation City can provide it.

b) Cultural activities are alive and arrives to every district, every neigborhood, every citizen. (at least in Barcelona)

c) A Barcelona Cultural Laboratory as the open living lab of the city. An opportunity to put together Future Internet, Smart Cities and Living Labs in a Smart Specialization strategy.

Barcelona 2020: Future Living Labs as a full city or region. City and regions as Next Generation Living Labs.

Hacking Barcelona! First Open and Distributed Citizen Hackathon. Nov. 24-25, 2012

Thanks! artur.serra@i2cat.net