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Smart & the City, The Hague, 2014

From Smart City to Smart Citizen: mapping the Smart City, empowering the Smart Citizen.

Smart City is the fusion of the Urban and the Digital Age.

Ubiquitous digitalisation together with the increasing complexity of global challenges demand for interdisciplinary co-designing processes, involving society at large.

Urban Research Smart & the City @ Embassy Kingdom of the Netherlands Berlin, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Hague, 2 February 2014

Urban Age
+
Digital Age
=
Smart City

Driven by climate change, demographic explosion and urban growth, our world is in an accelerating process of transformation.

Smart & the City, Blackout, The Hague, 2014

Accelerating
Growth

The accelerating growth of megacities worldwide demands for optimization of limited resources in limited space and for the integration of many separate technical resources into one sustainable system of urban metabolism.

Smart & the City, Blackout, Energy City, The Hague, 2014

Energy
Processes
&
Flows

As information-communication networks becomes ubiquitous in the Internet of Things (IoT), Smart City applications are developed with the goal of improving the management of urban flows and allowing for real time responses to urban challenges.

Smart & the City, Energy City, The Hague, 2014

Designing
Energy
City

Smart City offers urban informatics- and intelligent energy infrastructure-solutions aiming at improving the quality of urban life and supporting sustainable urban lifestyles.

Smart & the City, Flooding, The Hague, 2014

Climate
Challenges

Due to global warming extreme weather conditions with intense precipitations and floods force us to restructure our cities.

Smart & the City, Flooding, Water City, The Hague, 2014

Participatory
Climate
Adaptation

The increasing complexity of global challenges such as sustainability and climate adaptation demands for interdisciplinary approaches and co-designing processes.
Such a co-design process involves the public from the start.

Smart & the City, Water City, The Hague, 2014

Co-Creating
Water
City

Providing creative instruments to map and understand these complex interrelated challenges enables the public to co-design the water cycles of the Circular City.

Smart & the City, Smog, The Hague, 2014

Smart
Green

Smart City governance should involve the Smart Citizens, addressing quality of air.

Smart & the City, Smog, Green City, The Hague, 2014

Addressing
Sustainability

Society needs to define the challenges and to process the ideas and solutions that address these challenges.

Smart & the City, Green City, The Hague, 2014

Co-creating
Green City

Smart City solutions should be more transparent engaging citizens in participatory processes of expert/user co-creation.

Smart & the City, Boring, The Hague, 2014

Efficiency
&
Monitoring

The Smart City debate is still too much data driven, focusing on technology, efficiency and control.

Smart & the City, Boring, Participatory City, The Hague, 2014

Smart City
as a
Social Process

 

Smart Social

The digital revolution supports the transition from centralized to distributed and interactive social networks. Social splintering, disruptive technologies and ‘permachange’ demand flexibility and a human oriented system.

Smart & the City, Participatory City, The Hague, 2014

Participatory
City

Smart City governance should involve the Smart Citizens, addressing issues such as “who owns the data?”, “who sets the optimization criteria?”, “what are the residents’ needs?”, and “what is our Smart City’s social vision?”

Smart
Citizen

related
PROJECTS

Hybrid Space Lab @ Progressive Governance Summit 2022

Hybrid Space Lab is participating in the Progressive Governance Summit 2022 by the Progressive Zentrum on progressive politics.

Participation Progressive Governance Summit 2022 @ Progressive Zentrum, Haus Ungarn, Berlin, 13 October, 2022

Crossover Diplomacy @ Public Diplomacy Magazine

Hybrid Space Lab uses creativity to foster collective memory‑making, enabling engagement with contentious sites and easing stasis and political reticence.

Publication Creative Crossovers @ Public Diplomacy Magazine, University of Southern California, USC Annenberg, USC Centre on Public Diplomacy, USC Masters of Public Diplomacy Program, USA, 7 June 2019

Water Consious Fashion @ Fraulein Magazine

Water Consious Fashion is an initiative by Hybrid Space Lab, in cooperation with the Neonyt Fair and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Berlin.

Publication Neonyt Fair @ Fraulein Magazine, Germany, 15 January 2019

Riga Readings @ Advanced Social and Political Research Institute

Hybrid Diplomacy: How to integrate digital and creative innovation in diplomatic processes.
AR/VRxIoT+AI+? = Hybrid Space
The combination of physical and media space, of local place and digital networks, is coined Hybrid Space. Space today is transformed by technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) or Mixed Reality, becoming increasingly hybrid.

Lecture The Transformation of Diplomacy: Digitalization and Innovation @ Advanced Social and Political Research Institute, Riga Readings in Social Sciences, University of Latvia, Riga, 22-23 November 2018

Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia @ Tagesspiegel

Anna Yudina joined international experts at the Embassy Lab GREEN TOPIA at the Dutch Embassy, curated by Hybrid Space Lab, as part of the MakeCity festival.

Publication, Sabine Holper @ Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 23 June 2018

Renate Künast @ Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia

We are honored that Renate Künast, politician for the Greens and Member of the German Parliament, is opening the Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia.

Lectures & Discussion, Embassy Lab GRÜNtopia, Keynote Renate Künast @ Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, 22 June 2018

Urban Lab @ Metropolitan Solutions

The Dutch Urban Lab the Dutch Embassy Berlin showcases in cooperation with Hybrid Space Lab and the City of Amsterdam the “Dutch Approach” on urban challenges.

Public Program Metropolitan Solutions Smart City Governance @ Dutch Urban Lab, CityCube, Berlin, 21 May 2015
Public Program Crisis Design @ Dutch Urban Lab, CityCube, Berlin, 22 May 2015

Smart & the City @ Metropolitan Solutions

Hybrid Space Lab’s animation “Smart & the City” brings the Smart Cities theme from Metropolitan Solutions at Hannover Messe to the public in a fresh way.

Urban Screening Energy City, Water City, Green City, Participatory City @ Opera, Hannover, 7-11 April 2014
Publication Smart & the City @ Hannoversche Allgemeine, Hannover, 9 April 2014

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