Artur Serrai2cat/Citilab

SAT, Montreal Feb 16th 2011

i2cat, Anella i2cat, Anella Cultural,CitilabCultural,Citilab

Technologists, artists, citizensTechnologists, artists, citizens

Technologists

i2CAT Foundation

VISIONAIRWP 5 - UHD NET

Ultra High Definition Imaging distributed on optic networkGrenoble Mar 2011

I2CAT, PSNC, University of Essex, University of Twente

Partners

• 4 installations in Europe– I2CAT (Barcelona, Spain), – PSNC (Poznań, Poland), – University of Essex (Colchester, UK),– University of Twente (Twente, Netherlands).

• Visualization and networking– High resolution facilities– Interconnected with high speed optical networks

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Content Distribution Infrastructure

UK-wide Infrastructure for advanced content distribution Networked Media Infrastructure for

high quality content distribution in Poland

Direct link to digital cities: Amsterdam, Meerhoven and TU/e campus

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Partners: I2CATAdvanced Media equipment:• HD professional cameras

and capture cards• 3D HD displays• 3D HD capture cards• 4K tiled displays (SAGE)• Advance videoconferencing software• Transcoders

The artists

La difussion

Dancing Q 2005 : Entre Seoul et le Mercat de Flors a

Barcelona

On commence avec l' interaction

Mais comment rejoindre les villes et les citoyens?

Anella Cultural:Un Internet des arts et des citoyens

Ajuntament Barcelona

La Xarxa Transversal: un réseau de programeurs culturels

IP network entre 5 et 1Gpbs symetriques

1. Établir la connection à très grande bande passante entre les salles de Barcelona et les villes

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Teatre Bartrina - Reus

Teatre de l’Escorxador - Lleida

Teatre Principal - Olot

Teatre Monumental - Mataró

2. Équiper les salles en studio de média

• 2 Pcs portables• 1 audio card• 1 HD projector• Power amplifieraudio system. • Audio mixer. • Sony Anycast station• Open sotware:Scenic,DVTS, Videolan,...

3. Partager des événements culturels 3. Partager des événements culturels

Poetry festivals

Training

Master Class

Workshops

Courses

Conferences Performances

“ La difusión es donde la tecnologia ofrece mayores oportunidades a la opera en el siglo XXI” J. Matabosch.

La communication

Bi-directionnelle entre les centres culturels

Metamembrana 2008,Metamembrana 2008,on commence la co-créationon commence la co-création

Marcel.lí AntunezMarcel.lí Antunez

• 14 Interconnected cities in the Catalan Territory

• 19 Interconnected cultural Centers

• 59 Events programmed (accumulative February 2010)

− 11 Operas; 5 Festivals; 16 Literature/poetry; 18 Debates/formation; 1 guide tour of an exhibition; 1 Theatre; 1 visual arts production; 6 others

• 17.800 Audience (accumulative)

• 3.500 Hours of digital stored Cultural content

− Objectives in 2010• Interconnect 5 more

cities• 3 International

Projects (South-America, Canada, Center-Europe)

• To formalize the management team of the Cultural Ring

• To share more than 25 new events

• A user driven Media use case

Anella Cultural

Equipped with HD cameras, projectors, … perfect as a testbed for new media technologies with users

The citizens

Artists live in a community

What is a Citilab?

The laboratory of the community

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Evolution A: Open networks, open source, open innovation

-1991. “Internet is for everyone” ISOC.-2000. Web 2.0, Wikis, social netwoks-2001. Innocentive, crowdsourcing.-2005. “Democratizing innovation”....

-2006. Corelabs project: Open Living labs.

Evolution B: Telecenters, community access networks, citilabs

-80s Freenets-90s Community networks, telecenters,

digital literacy,-2000s. “Digital divide”-2010, Social networksBeyond..living labs, citilabs, innovation

literacy

Citilab: The context

Cornellá de Llobregat

Working class city in metropolitan area of BCN86.519 inhabitants,(INE 2009)De-industrialization. Increasing service economyElder population: 17,39% (BCN, 20,43%)Secondary educational centers (5).No university or tertiary center (BCN, 8) People with university degree, 9,31%. (BCN, 20,17%)Immigrants, 17,26% (BCN, 17,54%)

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The current Citilab community

- Two ongoing fieldworks studies, Columbia Univ. and Universitat de Barcelona (J. Colobrans).

-In april 2010 Citilab has 4.500 registered members.

-85% of them coming from Cornella and neighbors cities.

-20% born in 42 countries outside Spain.

-24% of members have tertiary education (vs. 9% in Cornella)

-The basic question Citilab staff ask to the newcomer is:

“What do you want to do? If you know how to do it , you can do it here by yourself. If not, we can help you. Sharing is our basic way of doing”.

Priority to local needs: bottom up approach.

-Discovering local needs and opportunities. Ethnografic fieldwork.

-Connecting local needs with global issues...or not yet.-From innovative topics to research ones.

Examples:Users Project Research topic-Retired people 55+........ Seniorlab..............AAL and others

-Second. Teachers (30-50s).. Digital Horchad......PLEs.

-Musicians, (20-30s)............ Musiclab...............Digital content

-Children (10-20).................. Scracht...............Comp.Thinking

Seniors are different!

-Current seniors are healthier, they have more money, and more free time for learning, for being creative, and why not for participating in innovative projects...

-Seniors (55-75) are not elders (80+).-One of the few areas in which Europe is just ahead of the

rest of the world -Extension of neotenic characteristics. (Charlton, B.G. 2007)

-How about a senior industry?: senior fashion, senior universities,knowledge tourism, etc.

A living lab on e-learning

-The teachers need a living lab for innovating in teaching.

– They are fed up of “technology harassment”-The “Hort Digital”, an innovative project for building a

LL on e-learning, specially for teachers– A Personal Learning Environment (PLE)– A Problem based Learning approach

-Results: – Very positive results with teachers– Support from the Dep. of Education to

opening the project to other centers.

MUSICLab

Edutech: Computational thinking for everyone

Scracht, learning programming with kids.

Citilab, where you can learn to innovate:

90s. “Internet is for everyone”2010. To innovate is for everyone.

EnoLL-Europe 2010: the tip of a global open living labs movement

Redesigning the whole “national innovation systems”

The national innovation systems (Nelson,Rosenberg, Porter... 1993).

Characteristics:– Science-Technology-Industry– Science the Enless Frontier, V. Bush– Linear model. R&D--->Innovation– Triple Helix, Universities, Gov., Industry– Clusters, (Porter)...

2. Opening user-driven models of innovation and research.

Characteristics:-Open networks - Internet's E2E Principle-Distributed virtual environments-Bottom up approach-From innovation to R&D.-From innovation from periphery to the

center.-Long-Tail Innovation.

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