The team from Commonplace, a new community improvement app, spoke at our Digital Tools and Neighbourhood Design Workshop, an event designed to explore the impact of digital tools on community design, engagement and improvement. http://www.nesta.org.uk/event/digital-tools-and-neighbourhood-planning-workshop

1. @cmnplace
COMMONPLACE
@cmnplace

3. Commonplace uses high street wearables to sense
citizens’ emotions to places and input responses
Augmented reality, GPS & eyetracking locate focus
Iris dilation & expression detection detect emotion
Galvic response & heartrate sensors detect
emotional reaction

4. @cmnplace
“Crap park”
Commonplace senses emotional response to place via
wearables, augmented reality & emotion sensors
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You don’t like
this place
@cmnplaceCOMMONPLACE © 2024

5. @cmnplace
It creates a real-time aggregate map of how city users
feel about places in their neighbourhood
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Neutral
@cmnplace
Dislike
COMMONPLACE © 2024

6. And provides feedback methods for individual
proposals via video, text and audio interfaces
Locals call this ‘crap park’.
People bring their dogs to go
to the toilet here.
Nobody else uses the park.
I’d like to turn it into a
sustainable edible garden
@cmnplaceCOMMONPLACE © 2024

7. @cmnplace
Commonplace allows you to browse other people’s
proposals for improvements to your neighbourhood
45
Suggestions
30
Suggestions
15
Suggestions
22
Suggestions 7
Suggestions
@cmnplaceCOMMONPLACE © 2024

8. How about an
edible park?
Commonplace apps Sensor feedback Social Media
Citizen sourced needs & ideas
Local clearing house matches needs to ideas for relevant proposals
70%
dislike the
current park
We need
to reduce
pollution
£
Investment:
Developers,
Crowdfunding,
Small business
Updates to local
council
planning policies
75% of citizens want an edible park. 54% would benefit from it
Edible
Park E9
Proposal checked against local planning policies algorithm
Commonplace automates the consultation and
planning process decisions

9. And crunches emotional, sensor and other big data -
against local planning policy to make rapid decisions
@cmnplace
Planning policies
Edible park
Planning approved!
Apply for tender
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Project
Budget
Completion date
40,000
2025
COMMONPLACE © 2024

10. www.commonplace.is
@cmnplace
mike@commonplace.is