Event overview
THIS HAPPENED LONDON bring together a panel of speakers including Jennifer Gabrys, Dr Dan Lockton, Tim Brooke and guest curator Gyorgyi Galik.
Hosted by Goldsmiths' Department of Computing, the panel discusses:
• why 'smart cities' are not just about shiny tech stuck on a lamp post
• how the language we use within the 'smart cities' discourse influences their design
• what assumptions we make when designing human interactions for complex systems
• who has the power to act
• whether policy can influence citizen engagement
• how we might practically design for civic and political participation or action.
THE PANEL
Jennifer Gabrys is Reader in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project, Citizen Sense. She is author of a study on electronic waste, Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics (University of Michigan, 2011); and a forthcoming study on environmental sensing, Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).
Dr Dan Lockton is Visiting Research Tutor in Innovation Design Engineering at Royal College of Art (RCA) and author of Design with Intent (O’Reilly, 2016). He is interested in relationships between design and people’s actions with products, services and environments, how people understand an increasingly complex world, and the consequences for society and sustainability.
Tim Brooke is the the Head of Making at Future Cities Catapult. He has worked on a diverse range of projects from multiuser museum exhibits to robotic warehouses and self-organising wireless networks in vineyards. Tim is an Interaction Designer with buckets of experience in devising, prototyping and creating stunning and amazing interfaces.
Gyorgyi Galik is aPhD candidate in Innovation Design Engineering at Royal College of Art in London. Alongside her studies, Gyorgyi is working as a Design Researcher at Future Cities Catapult. Her practice focuses on voluntary social change, and more specifically how we can transform socio-ecological systems and our collective relationship towards the environmental commons to address and respond to contemporary social and environmental challenges.
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Dates & times
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1 Dec 2015 | 6:00pm - 9:00pm |
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