GOODbuildings.info / 2011
GOODbuildings.info, is a vision is to aggregate public and user-generated data to make commercial building information transparent and easy to access.
The project and app is inspired by the objectives of the San Francisco Department of the Environment, and White House initiatives like the PAP 10, and the Green Button, that aim to reduce the amount of energy that buildings consume. More information and our demo can be found at: www.goodbuildings.info |
LA Here and Now / 2011
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Global Pulse - United Nations /2011
 | Global Pulse is an innovation initiative in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General to harness new data and technologies to detect—in real-time—when populations are changing their collective behavior in response to crises. Christine Outram is helping the Global Pulse team structure their work and research, as well as build the narrative and presentation for their meeting at the UN General Assembly. In addition, she is working on an outreach strategy for private data-providers that shows how sharing data can provide value not only for development agencies, but also for the private sector.
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Summer of Smart / 2011
The Summer of Smart is a new model for how citizens and government can work directly together to address urban issues. Developers, designers, city officials, urbanists, journalists, community members, and more are building rapid innovation prototypes and presenting them directly to government. It's our vision for Democracy 3.0.
City Innovation Group has been helping the folks running the event (GAFFTA) find data sources, connect local business with government and push the data and energy use in buildings frontier. |
/LApps 2010/2011
 Taking advantage of the growing proliferation of mobile technologies, increased computing power and sophisticated data collection mechanisms in cities, The Public Studio and City Innovation Group are launching the LApps, or Los Angeles Applications Competition. A yearly contest and event, LApps gives software developers the chance to win cash prizes and find funding through creating targeted and user-friendly, mobile and web applications that are built on public data sets and that respond to the specific needs of the City of LA. >> More details coming soon
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/The Copenhagen Wheel
Smart, responsive and elegant, the Copenhagen Wheel is a new emblem for urban mobility. It transforms ordinary bicycles quickly into hybrid e-bikes that also function as mobile sensing units. The Copenhagen Wheel allows you to capture the energy dissipated while cycling and braking and save it for when you need a bit of a boost. It also maps pollution levels, traffic congestion, and road conditions in real-time. A project by SENSEable City Lab Project Leader: Christine Outram All photos by MaxTomasinelli.com Partners: The City of Copenhagen, Ducati Energia s.p.a, The Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea |
/FriendFreight Copenhagen, Denmark
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The FriendFreight research explores the possibilities of Sustainable Goods Delivery through a bottom-up Community Based Bicycle Service. The strategy optimizes inner-city goods deliveries and reduces what is termed 'travel demand' by harnessing members of the community and the power of digital technologies to transmit and receive information in real time from a distance.
Findings: The FriendFreight service was tested in the context of Copenhagen, where bicycles were used to deliver different types of goods. The results highlighted the importance of three factors in relation to the success of such a service: the physical layout of the city and the relationship between retail outlets and commuter routes; the availability of a reliable real-time data; and the building of a social network with ongoing incentives for participation.
Project Leaders: research undertaken by Christine Outram, MATlab modeling by Francesco Calabrese
Published in: Movement-aware applications for sustainable mobility: technologies and approaches published, IGI Global Press, October 2009
Findings: The FriendFreight service was tested in the context of Copenhagen, where bicycles were used to deliver different types of goods. The results highlighted the importance of three factors in relation to the success of such a service: the physical layout of the city and the relationship between retail outlets and commuter routes; the availability of a reliable real-time data; and the building of a social network with ongoing incentives for participation.
Project Leaders: research undertaken by Christine Outram, MATlab modeling by Francesco Calabrese
Published in: Movement-aware applications for sustainable mobility: technologies and approaches published, IGI Global Press, October 2009
/Real Time Copenhagen Copenhagen, 2008
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Real Time Copenhagen displays the pulse of Copenhagen's Kulturnatten (culture night) as it unfolds in real time. The overlaying of people movement - as captured through mobile phone density - with events, gives us an understanding of the macro dynamics taking place in the city. Meanwhile, the tracking of volunteers through GPS provides a more personal glimpse of the individual movement traces that are being created on the night.
The casual observer can use the visualization to choose the most appropriate routes through city or events they would like to see. In doing so, there is a realization that they themselves become an agent of change in the shifting urban environment that surrounds them.
A project by SENSEable CIty Lab in collaboration with TDC and Aalborg University for the City of Copenhagen
Project Team:
Christine Outram | Project Leader
Mauro Martino | Interaction Design
Francesco Calabrese | Computer programming
The casual observer can use the visualization to choose the most appropriate routes through city or events they would like to see. In doing so, there is a realization that they themselves become an agent of change in the shifting urban environment that surrounds them.
A project by SENSEable CIty Lab in collaboration with TDC and Aalborg University for the City of Copenhagen
Project Team:
Christine Outram | Project Leader
Mauro Martino | Interaction Design
Francesco Calabrese | Computer programming
/Digital City Florence 2007
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In 1982, Florence, Italy, was named a UNESCO world heritage site and the city was essentially frozen in time.
The Digital City Workshop asked the question: how can digital technologies be used to improve livability and sustainability in a city which can no longer be physically changed. What resulted and was later published was 7 'high-tech' ideas for the neighborhood of Oltrarno: mobility-on-demand; intelligent trash; greening spaces; creating tangible networks; re-crafting craft; sound and lightscapes; and twenty-first century gates.
The Digital City Workshop asked the question: how can digital technologies be used to improve livability and sustainability in a city which can no longer be physically changed. What resulted and was later published was 7 'high-tech' ideas for the neighborhood of Oltrarno: mobility-on-demand; intelligent trash; greening spaces; creating tangible networks; re-crafting craft; sound and lightscapes; and twenty-first century gates.
/Mobility on Demand 2008
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Spearheaded by Bill Mitchell and his Smart Cities Group at the MIT Media Lab, Mobility-on-demand systems are a series of stacks and racks of light electric vehicles dispersed at closely spaced intervals throughout a city. As they are a one-way sharing system (ie: you can drop a vehicle off at a different rack to where you picked it up) research must take into account various aspects of the system. This includes: a study into the physical layout of cities to assess where and how racks should be placed; investigating the system dynamics of such a system and how inventory can be controlled; and the physical manifestation of the vehicles themselves.
