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The city as an innovation platform
Bragança - 04.12.15
Daniel Sarasa Funes
OpenYourCity.com/author/daniel
@dsarasa on twitter
[email protected]
3 formas de construir la 'smart city'
Urbanization vs. progress
ILLITERACY INDEX 1970-2015
Urbanization Rate 1960-2015
%
55
35
1960
2015
3 formas de construir la 'smart city'
“Cities are not the problem, they are
the solution”
Jaime Lerner
(former Mayor of Curitiba)
3 formas deproblems
construir la 'smart city'
3 formas desolutions
construir la 'smart city'
The value of cities: superlinear scaling
Metcalfe's law for telecom networks
Value = K x n2
Bettencourt – West / Marshall's Law
Wealth = β x n2
“...whenever you move to a city twice as big,
you do a 15% more of everything” (*)
Geoffrey West
(*) includes earnings, encounters... and ideas, but also crime
i.e. West would proof Jane Jacobs' observations
(*) n = population
The problem of the middle-class
Watt consumption
- sleeping human => 100 Watt / day
- hunting human => 300 Watt / day
- middle class human => 11.000 Watt /
day!!!
- blue whale => 65.000 Watt / day
The innovation spiral
Coal → oil → silicon → lithium
The urban innovation process
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What are the questions?
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Where are the ideas and knowledge?
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How do we fund urban innovation?
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What are our tools?
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How does an API to the city look like?
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How do we actually build solutions?
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How do we test/measure them?
Cities can think by
themselves
ZGZ 2008: 8%
unemployment
ZGZ 2011: 24%
unemployment
Main goal : create
opportunities for
–
–
–
people
companies
institutions
3 formas
de construir(1980)
la 'smart city'
Questions
“I went back to Ohio
But my city was gone
There was no train station
There was no downtown
…
All my favorite places
My city had been pulled down
Reduced to parking spaces
A, o, way to go... Ohio”
My city was gone, Chrissie Hynde
(The Pretenders)
Place-making for creativity
City hall
Civic
communities
Corporations
Artists
New kind of soft,
flexible,
reconfigurable,
agile &
open institutions
Entrepreneurs
Researchers
Geeks
DIY / Makers
3 formas
de construir
la 'smart
city'
3 ways
to drive
urban
innovation
Top down, bottom up or collaborative
3 formas de construir
'smart city'
Zaragoza's
Open laUrban
Lab
the human API to the city
3 formas
de construir
la 'smart city'
civic
hackathons
20 proposals
3 prototypes
funded
+250
crowdfunders
+20.000 EUR
raised
@crowdfundingZGZ
Zagales hacklab: nurture local talent
... some initial concepts
Cities will keep innovating in:
Politics, Economy
Technology, environment...
...and you will hear more about:
open source nature
lean startup thinking
agile implementation
More at...
zaragoza.es/tecnologia
etopia.es
openurbanlab.es
openyourcity.com/author/dsarasa
@dsarasa