The document discusses the DATAStudio project in Eindhoven that aims to reformulate the relationship between citizens and the municipality. It explores how to relate the narratives of smart cities and participation through discussions with experts and using data to understand realities in Woensel-Noord. The DATAStudio collects a variety of data through projects with citizens, schools and researchers to identify important issues and inform meaningful citizen-centric design for a smart society. It also discusses tensions between seamless technology processes and transparency for users.

1. DATAStudio
De
Staat
van
Eindhoven
Het Nieuwe Instituut
&
Municipality Eindhoven
How to reformulate the relation
between the municipality and the
citizen?
Smart City | Participation Society
Two ambitious and hopeful but very
different narratives about the city and its
citizens.
Different actors, different values, different
problems, different cultures.
How to relate them to each other?

2. DATAStudio
De
Staat
van
Eindhoven
We asked 6 people to think along:
Dan Hill Evelien Tonkes
Anab Jain Chris Sigaloff
Tjalling Swierstra Albert Jan Kruiter

3. DATAStudio
De
Staat
van
Eindhoven
The State of Eindhoven
What is the current state of affairs?

4. We did some preliminary mapping with OSCity:

5. DATAStudio
De
Staat
van
Eindhoven
Het Nieuwe Instituut
&
Municipality Eindhoven
What important questions are not
being asked enough?
- what is and what isn’t smart?
- who uses what technologies?
- who is and isn’t actually participating?
- who can or should take responsability
for what level of services when the
municipality steps back?
- what do citizens want of their city?
& how to find out?
- what happens when new kinds data
become part of the language of
policy and technology?
- which realities are caught in data and
which aren’t?

6. To ground those questions, we focus on Woensel-Noord

7. Woensel-Noord is partly unique (Philipswijk)…

8. …but also a proxy for a large part of the Dutch urban landscape.

9. DATAStudio
De
Staat
van
Eindhoven
It became clear that central to all
questions was the nature,
availability and quality of data.
Therefor we started
The DATAStudio
in which we use and explore a wide
variety of data practices to get a grip
on relations between technology and
participation in Woensel- Noord
(read: the city…)

10. http://datastudio-eindhoven.nl

11. DATAStudio
De
Staat
van
Eindhoven
DATAStudio 2016
• DATAStudio pilot
with urban planners of the TU/e
• Databus: Collecting Stories (next week!)
with Kennisland and citizens of WN
• Cartography for children
with Anab Jain and a school in WN
• Data for Dummies – public lectures
with Tjalling Swierstra
• Investigating Data Deserts
with Albert Jan Kruiter and DDW
• The Cloud Atlas
• Design & Desires for WN
+
A series of debates with STRP-
Bienale, BaltanLab, Architectuur-
centrum, HiTechCampus, DAE to engage
different networks around the questions.

12. DATAStudio
De
Staat
van
Eindhoven
DATAStudio 2017
Design for a smart society.
(in development)
Combining results of the different
methods. What are the actual issue
spaces?
What types of practice and knowlegde
should be engaged for a meaningful
citizen-centric design?
…& IoT ?

13. IoT
&
Smart
Society
IoT & smart society
How to solve the tension between
seamlessness of processes
and transparancy for human users?
Values behind rapid prototyping and
cybernetic optimalisation?
How does design according to principles
fit in?
Opportunity: expanding the notion
of civic behaviour to include
(programmable) non-humans.

14. DATAStudio
De
Staat
van
Eindhoven
Thank you!
Klaas Kuitenbrouwer
R&D – Het Nieuwe Instituut
- digitale cultuur
k.kuitenbrouwer@hetnieuweinstituut.nl
http://destaatvaneindhoven.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/
http://datastudio-eindhoven.nl/