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The Citilab Model?Ramon Sangüesa

miércoles 30 de septiembre de 2009

• What is Citilab?

• Why?

• Positive and negative experiences

• What we are learning

• Next steps


What is Citilab?


Keep ambiguity and uncertainty open


What is it? (now)

• An institutional form adressed to citizens and that helps them generate innovations

• ... from a technological culture standpoint

• ... open

• and in transformation: it is a project


Why?


Technocultures

we are moving from a society based on the flow of material technical innovations (as it has hitherto

been the industrial society) to one that rests on an abstract flow of technical innovations as well as on

the organization of isntitutions based on the increased knowledge about ... how to increase

knowledgeSalvador Giner


it seems that the very nature of the present social transformation, vague and seemingly anonymous,

and especially the change in the nature of the qualitative technical factors that cause it

(Telematics, computer and artificial intelligence) require new approaches

Salvador Giner


I+T+AIit seems that the very nature of the present social transformation, vague and seemingly anonymous,

and especially the change in the nature of the qualitative technical factors that cause it

(Telematics, computer and artificial intelligence) require new approaches

Salvador Giner


I


IComputation


IComputationRecollection



Communication



CommunicationCoordination




Evaluation




EvaluationDesign




EvaluationDesign

Automation




EvaluationDesign

AutomationComputational

Thinking


T


IA


Convergence


Expansion

“[...] i in the 1990s, biology, electronics, and informatics seem to be converging and interacting in their applications, in their materials and, more fundamentally, in their conceptual approach “

Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society


“Essence of design

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the

contingent - not with how things are but with how they might

be - in short, with design.

Natural science has found a way to exclude the normative

and to concern itself solely with how things are … ”

H.A. Simon “The Sciences of the Artificial”


I+T+AInew cultural processesnew social processes

a new R+D?


I+D 3 < 4 < 1 000 000 000

• Triple Helix

• Open Innovation

• Living Labs

• Triple Helix + C

• 2.0

• P2P

• Contribution Culture


I+T+AIR+D

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Citizens can do (digital) R+D?


What approach to choose?

• ICT Literacy

• Media Literacy

• Technological Culture

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Four hypothesis to start from


Hypothesis ICitizens, through mastery not only of technologies but of the tehcnological ways of solving problems and the methods of design culture -specifically of digital technology- can spark social processes of innovation.


Hypothesis IIThe problem solving abilities

that stem of digital technology practice, when integrated, can

be translated as design methods to various areas of citizens’

lives, well beyond the creation of digital objects and digital

systems.


Hypothesis III

The generic framework of procedural epistemology

(computational thinking) is useful for the

implementation of such processes.


Hypothesis IVInstitutional frameworks of the

industrial society are not adequate for this type of

processes.

We must create new institutions that help citizens become in the

digital culture


Proof method: steps

• Design an artifact (Citilab) to validate the hypothesis

• The artifact is a (digital) citizens’ lab

• It should trigger outreach and activate innovation from citizens

• It is a machine, an operating system and a network

• It has to evaluated as it grows


How?

Designing Citilab


CreateConnect

Appropriate


Expose onself

CreateConnect

Appropriate


Expose onself

MeetFindTry

Learn

CreateConnect

Appropriate


Expose onself

MeetFindTry

Learn

ProgammingFilmingEditing

DesigningBuilding

InnovatingProjecting

CreateConnect

Appropriate


Expose onself

Express onself

MeetFindTry

Learn


DesigningBuilding


CreateConnect

Appropriate


Expose onself

Express onself

MeetFindTry

Learn


DesigningBuilding


Teaching to othersShowing to others

CommunicateSharing

CreateConnect

Appropriate


Context and Scopes

• Population in formal learning ages

• Informal learning

• Informal education

• Inside/Outside tech

• Seniors

• Kids

• Hackers

• Media Activists

• Researchers


Specifications for a design

• Environment to reach and interconnect

• Institutions: school, university, city administration

• Businesses

• Innovative groups

• PLAIN CITIZENS

• A space for all, tailored and common formats

• Resources for all

• Connection space, meeting point

• Start form what is the current reality


Requirements

• Flexibility

• Adaptability

• Reconfiguration


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Design: processes• Reception

• People+projects• Seed

• Knowledge• Evolve

• Let them try!• Reseed

• Reflect,act, and propose new projects


An activity is - a course

- a meeting- a living lab

- a research project - another proposal

it is a seed…

Seeding


Seeding/Evolve

A seed… … becomes a project


Group evolution


… that gathers a group …


Procesos


… that gathers a group …that develops knowledge


Procesos

...which is communicated and spawns

more seeds


… that gathers a group …that develops knowledge


Some actual Citilab examples

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Seniorlab


Tecnolab


Inventatv


Canal Dona


Lego Mindstorms


Scratch


Smalltalk

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Arduino

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Work? CoworkOffice? Street

Photo> Peter Chislett


New Urbanism:UrbanLabsTechnocitizenship and Socioinnovation

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BusinessesWTCInvenioBaytUtaniSindicatosIncubadora

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Ongoing R+D

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Ongoing R+D

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• People and technology. Ethnographies


Ongoing R+D

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• Paths and barriers to appropiation


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender

• Concepts and methods of design and innovation


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender


• User-driven design


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender


• User-driven design• Living Labs


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender


• User-driven design• Living Labs• Models for new types of

innovation


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender



innovation• Measuring the impact of social

innovation


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender




innovation• Organizing Innovation


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender





• Cities and new urbanisms


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender





• Cities and new urbanisms• Perceived City


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender





• Cities and new urbanisms• Perceived City• Collaborative Urbanism


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender






• Media


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender






• Media• Social Media


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender






• Media• Social Media• Identity


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender






• Media• Social Media• Identity• Visual antrhopology


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender







• Tecnología


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender







• Tecnología• Colaborativa platforms


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender







• Tecnología• Colaborativa platforms• S/book


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender








• Education


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender








• Education• Learning how to program


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender








• Education• Learning how to program• 2.0 Methods in the

classroom


Ongoing R+D

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• Age and Gender








• Education• Learning how to program• 2.0 Methods in the

classroom• Computing without

computers


Reality Check+ and -


The people• The real innovative attitude• People still expecting to be trained before risking into action• Education levels and age do matter very much• Continuity• Outreach problems• Enthusiasm and gratitude• Superprofessionals


Staff


Organization

• Difficulties in assuming lack of structure as a standard state

• Difficulties in putting process in place

• Contradictions between structures processes, and decision making


Infrastructure


Communication

• A difficult message to disseminate here and now

• Divulgation is crucial

• Difficulties for escaping the trap of institutional communication

• Slowness in articulating online effective communication


Collaborators, external

• Culture of subsidizing

• A culture of strict customer and provider relationships, with little tendency towards exploring further

• The citizen as something far away


Learning so far

• Contradictions to be exploited

• We have design an environment to foster innovation from and with users ... without having discussed this idea with users ;-)

• When appropriation starts it still slow in innovating

• The city comes to Citilab but Citilab has to go out to the city even more

• Addressing individuals AND collectives, connecting them

• Network building

• Governance of an extended system


Next• Reviewing organization• Improving divulgation of core concepts and methods• New centers: Citilabbing• Connecting with similar institutions worldwide• Sharing and coproduction


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