SMART CITIES NEEDSMART MUSEUMS

Robert SteinDallas Museum of Art

@rjstein

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70% OF THE GLOBAL POPULATION WILL LIVE IN ONE BY 2050CITIES

Source: Guardian Cities, Jan 2014http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jan/27/guardian-cities-site-urban-

future-dwell-human-history-welcome

Photo by Jason Hawkes

SMART CITIES

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TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING CITIES…

AND CULTURE

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TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATESTHE PACE OF DISCOVERY

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SENSORS ARE GETTNG SMALLER

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SMART CITIES

HAVE A PROBLEM

DATA IS EASY TO GRAB, BUT HUMANS ARE POORLY EQUIPPED

TO DEAL WITH IT

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DESPITE OURPERCIEVED INNOVATION,PRODUCTIVITY ISFALLING

Source: Has the Ideas Machine Broken Down, The Economist. Jan, 2013.

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TECHNOLOGY IS ACCELERATING THE PACE OF LIVING.

Negotiating the circumstances of everyday life in any true city tends over time to create a broad-minded, feisty, opinionated personality type we'd have no problem recognizing, wherever and whenever it appears in human history. City people may well be tolerant of diversity not out of any personal commitment to a utopian politics, but because that's just what the daily necessity of living cheek-by-jowl with people who are different imposes upon you.

And yet it's just this set of characteristics that so many smart-city provisions seem hell-bent on undermining, or even eradicating. The ability to search the space of the city for the perfectly congenial set of circumstances, to tune the environment until we never have to leave the contours of our own comfort: where the making of city-dwellers and citizens is concerned, that's a bug, not a feature. It erodes the development of savoir faire; it eliminates the risk, but also everything wonderful, that arises in the confrontation with difference.

Adam Greenfield, The Dark Side of the “Smart City” Interview by Annalee Newitz on IO9. January 30, 2014

http://io9.com/the-dark-side-of-the-smart-city-1512608758

THE DARK SIDE OF SMART CITIES

Why is this a place I want to live?

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WHAT MAKES A CITY SMART?

and not just another dumb bunny

CITIES NEED SMART PEOPLE

CITIES NEED CREATIVE PEOPLEcited by 1500 CEO’s as the

single most crucial factor for future success

IBM, 2010 http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31670.wss)

The future [of knowledge] is to let ‘the machines’ do the heavy lifting and for us humans to focus on connecting the dots, discovering context, meaning and relevance, and to make human sense of it all.

THE FUTURE OF KNOWLEDGE

Gerd Leonhard. The Future of Knowledge. Jan 7, 2014https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/creativektn/article-view/-/blogs/the-future-of-knowledge

… right-brain thinking becomes extremely valuable, once again, as empathy, improvisation and interdependent thinking become the new standard. Knowledge, becomes not an asset used for control or dominance, but for contribution and co-creation.

THE FUTURE OF KNOWLEDGE

Gerd Leonhard. The Future of Knowledge. Jan 7, 2014https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/creativektn/article-view/-/blogs/the-future-of-knowledge

CULTURE IS THE MISSING INGREDIENT

CULTURE IS THE MISSING INGREDIENTAlmost all Nobel laureates in the sciences actively engage in arts as adults. They are twenty-five times as likely as the average scientist to sing, dance, or act; seventeen times as likely to be a visual artist; twelve times more likely to write poetry and literature; eight times more likely to do woodworking or some other craft; four times as likely to be a musician; and twice as likely to be a photographer.

Michele and Robert Root-BernsteinPsychology Today February, 2009

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/imagine/200902/missing-piece-in-the-economic-stimulus-hobbling-arts-hobbles-innovation

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ARTISTS ARE STUDENTS OF TECHNOLOGY

Georges SeuratA Sunday on La Grande Jatte – 1884Art Institute of Chicago

James Clerk Maxwell (physicist), Ogden Rood (physicist), and Michele Chevreul (chemist)

significantly influenced Seurat and the

Neo-Impressionsts

3 color LCD

Joseph Marie Jacquard

ARTISTS ARE ADAPTING

Joris Laarman

Iris van Herpen

“I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos, which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance”

Armory Show – Chicago, 1913

ARE MUSEUMS ADAPTING?

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SMART CITIES NEED SMART MUSEUMS

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FOUR THINGSSMART MUSEUMSNEED TO KNOW

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FOUR THINGSSMART MUSEUMSNEED TO KNOW1. Know Your Audience2. Know What You’re

Trying to Achieve3. Know Your

Performance At Any Moment

4. Know Your Limits

THANK YOU@rjstein