Cities are complex organisms, but lived life is much more than coordination and safety. How should the Future Internet support "the other half", which is hardly less complex? Building on research within the Center for Digital Urban Living (www.digitalurbanliving.dk), from journalism and civic communication to media architecture and cultural experiences, Martin Brynskov will outline some core opportunities and challenges we face as city planning becomes increasingly digitised and dynamic.

1. DIGITAL URBAN LIVING
Challenges for Future Internet
Martin Brynskov
brynskov@imv.au.dk
www.digitalurbanliving.dk
Future Internet Assembly, Valencia, April 16, 2010

2. Aarhus, Denmark

3. DENMARK

4. DIGITAL URBAN LIVING
CIVIC COMMUNICATION
MEDIA FAÇADES Civic
Communication
New Urban Areas
NEW URBAN AREAS Media façades
CULTURAL HERITAGE
Cultural heritage Digital art
DIGITAL ART
4 years, !7.1 mill. (!2.2 mill. core funding)
Danish Council for Strategic Research / KINO
(Funded by the Danish Ministry of Science & Technology + partners)

5. PARTNERS & COLLABORATORS
• Aarhus University, Information & Media Studies, CAVI.dk
• Danish School of Media & Journalism
• Aarhus School of Business
• Aarhus Municipality (business, culture & infrastructure)
• Alexandra Institute A/S
• Berlingske Media / Mecom
• AFA JCDecaux
• Martin, BIG, 3, museums, LEGO
• BBC Big Screens, Urban Screens...

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8. Fastest to 500,000 (4 months)
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12. LIFE IN GENERAL
Serious stuff Technology / Less serious stuff
Infrastructure

13. LIFE IN GENERAL
Serious stuff Technology / Less serious stuff
Infrastructure

14. LIFE IN GENERAL
Serious stuff Technology / Less serious stuff
Infrastructure

15. LIFE IN GENERAL
Serious stuff Technology / Less serious stuff
Infrastructure Important

16. SEOUL METROPOLITAN AREA

20. Challenge #1

21. #1
Create realistic,
desirable visions

22. An example

23. Aarhus by Light

28. Mediating Communities
& Social Interaction

29. New Forms of Interaction

30. Engaging
experiences

32. LEVELS OF STRUCTURE
Ludic activity
Play
Game
Transformative
social
play
Salen & Zimmerman (2005)

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34. Challenge #2

35. #2
Design for »openness«
24/7

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39. Tokyo
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40. Kunsthaus Graz 37

41. MOBILE/PERVASIVE/WEB/CG TECH
• SMS/MMS
• (Mobile) web
• GPS
• Tags
• Sensors
• Actuators
• Screens
• ...

42. STARCATCHER – GPS GAME

43. PERVASIVE STORYTELLING
Design Play
Show

44. USE SCENARIOS
• Documenting fun
• Static pervasive media story
• Challenge and social play
• Interactive story
• Learning games
• Interactive story supervised by teacher
References
Brynskov, M., & Ludvigsen, M. (2006). “Mock games: a new genre of pervasive play”, Proceedings of the 6th conference on
Designing Interactive systems, University Park, PA, USA, ACM. [http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1142405.1142433]
Brynskov, M. (2006): "Social Construction Kits for Kids: New Models for Game Design in the Era of MySpace and Disney
Mobile". Journal of Game Development, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 11-30
Brynskov, M., Bouvin, N.O. & Christensen, B.G.: "Life is a Stage: An Architecture for Do-It-Yourself Interactive Pervasive
Play and Learning". Proceedings of CyberGames 2007: Third International Conference on Games Research and
Development, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, pp. 171-177.

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48. The digital layer in the city
is becoming
the most important layer...
Cf. Adam Greenfield

49. The digital layer in the city
is becoming
already
the most important layer...
Cf. Adam Greenfield

50. Most time spent
hours/month
Source: FDIM, January 2009 (all sites)

51. Challenge #3

52. #3
Identify new genres,
build new platforms

53. RESEARCH PROBLEMS/OPPORTUNITIES
• How to evaluate urban interventions
– Methods richer data
– Aspects refine design space explorer
– Sensemaking and openness how to “experience”
– Vocabulary (pragmatist, affective, media/communication, STS…) theory
• Balancing engagement and information conflict
• Temporal dynamics: short- vs. long-term effects time
• Tools & frameworks actually building meta-stuff
– Design process support (documenting the design process for reflection)
– Interaction toolboxes (embedded/sensors, camera-based interaction)

54. Challenge #4

55. #4
Find the right people

56. You need
Poets & Plumbers

57. EXPO 2010
FACADE LIGHT

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72. CLEAN SLATE VS. ORGANIC GROWTH
• IFEZ u-City • Seoul Metropolitan Area
• Shanghai World EXPO • Aarhus by Light

73. Challenge #5

74. #5
Organic growth is
harder, more important

75. CHALLENGES: SUMMARY
• Create realistic, desirable visions
• Design for »openness«, 24/7
• Identify new genres, build new platforms
• Find the right people – poets & plumbers
• Organic growth harder, inevitable
• Civic Communication
• Media Façades
• New Urban Areas
• Digital Heritage
• Digital Art

76. THERE ARE MANY »CITIES«
• Wiki-City • Layered City
• Real-Time City • Plugin City
• Living City • Tactical City
• Augmented City • Critical City
• Sentient City • Interface City
• Smart City (AI) • Informational City
• Hybrid City • ...
www.martijndewaal.nl

77. Where’s the Internet?

78. www.digitalurbanliving.dk
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79. Smart Cities panel
• Martin Brynskov, Digital Urban Living
• Peter Ljungstrand, Interactive Institute
• Malte Behrmann, EU Games Dev Fed