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Ethical sensing, a model for smart cities
Today, not for the first time on this blog, we visit Amsterdam. This time for the innovative work of Thijs Turèl, who both heads up the Responsible Sensing Lab and manages the Responsible Urban Digitization program at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions.
Infrastructure and the society we want
In the US, President Biden is pushing for huge relief and investment packages, “once in a generation” proposals. An interesting aspect of this project, is the discussion (and arguing) around the word “infrastructure.” What is and isn’t, and what kinds are there?
The Ideal City
What would be your ideal city? There are likely as many answers as there are people but also likely to be a lot of common ground. The team at SPACE10, IKEA’s innovation lab have written a book on the topic, appropriately titled, The Ideal City.
Maker break 01
Despite “fab” being part of Fab City and Fab Lab, the presence of Fab Labs and maker spaces is now just one aspect of a much broader range of ideas and solutions in the Fab City initiative, which wants to act as a global infrastructure and source of knowledge for transforming the way we work, live, interact and evolve in cities.
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