Changing spaces
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Creating a smart city Changing spaces
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Driving by new technologies, cities need to adapt to the digital lifestyles. We live in world that's more than physical. Smart cities should by human and social. A smart city is created by smart people. Creating engaging places that fit within digital lifestyles is what we have to do!
Transcript of Changing spaces
Creating a smart city
Changing spaces
Digital Urban Strategist
Digital Urban Designer
Urban Geographer
International Economist
Entrepreneur
Developed several fiber networks
Developed city-wifi network
Creative industries
Establishment and Investements
City marketing
More people in the world own a phone than a toothbrush
People watch 150 times a day at their phone. A chain smoker 60 times a day at a pack of cigarettes
Lively city centers?
Not necessary for purchases anymore?
You go there for fun / experience
But what if nobody is in the city center?
From industrial to individual
But municipalities do not actively play a role in virtual space?
Public space is widely influenced by internet,
Municipalities act in physical public space,
Cities focus on bricks
Cities are poorly present in online communities
We live in a world of communities,
not municipalities
Internet is the key changemaker and will continue to shake the world we know
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created
them."
New ServicesEnvironment, Health, Entertainment, City Services, Social
Society (Demographics e.g.)
Environment
Economics
New Business Models and Eco-systems
Innovation
Technology Organization
Create a Need for
Create a Need for
Comes in two ways
AND ARE ONE
Create a Need for
Need
• To retain lively city centers• Vibrant local economy• Innovation eco-systems• sustainability
The City as a holostic experience
Experience driven instead of environment, energy etc.
• Many smart cities focus on energy and build an Urban OS
• Our projects focus on smart people and interaction.
• Make technology human
Create a platform for innovation and activate citizens
From infrastructure focused to a strategic part of urban development
Fully integrated physical, economic and digital master planning
Internet-based innovation eco-system
Projects
Focus on :1. Infrastructure (access)We focus on SMEs but access to means for innovation is limited. Large corporations own and control infrastructures. Investments costs are to high for many SMEs. We create innovation platform for SMEs
MAKE TECHNOLOGY HUMAN
2. InteractionEngagement is a key to change the eco-systems. We need new ways to communicate. A city is a center of human interaction.
Create
• A platform for innovation• Infrastructure for new eco-systems
smarth growth, through an economy based on knowledge and a broad concept of innovation. The strategy emphasizes growth in small and medium sized businesses and microbusinesses, and the establishing of networks and infrastructure for small actors. (Fireball)
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