Abstract
The Sensing in the Wild Lab is a speculative experiment in designing a de- centralised urban sensing system from a more-than-human perspective. It is part of DCODE, an H2020-ITN project that explores the future of designing with AI. During the Lab participants assume different identities – roleplaying as children but also as moss, as municipal authorities, as CCTV cameras, as pigeons, and as undocumented immigrants trying to evade the authorities – and are asked to feed into the sensing system data that reflects their particular perspectives and interests. The data partici- pants share, in the form of an image and text uploaded to a dedicated WhatsApp channel, helps to reveal both frictions and alignments among actors. In this, the Lab offers municipalities an opportunity to shift their thinking about the future smart city from a “system of systems” that is optimised for a few city dwellers to a much more distributed, inclusive meshwork in which data is contributed, circulated, and negoti- ated by humans and nonhumans alike.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | DRS2022: LABS |
| Publisher | Design Research Society |
| Number of pages | 19 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
| Event | DRS 2022 - Bilbao, Spain Duration: 25 Jun 2022 → 3 Jul 2022 https://www.drs2022.org |
Conference
| Conference | DRS 2022 |
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| Country/Territory | Spain |
| City | Bilbao |
| Period | 25/06/22 → 3/07/22 |
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Keywords
- More-than-human design
- Speculative design
- Smart city
- Artificial Intelligent (AI)
