Dan Hill Executive Director / Chief Design Officer Future Cities Catapult @FutureCitiesCat / futurecities.catapult.org.uk @cityofsound / cityofsound.com

Beyond data

Architecture of the well-tempered environment

– Reyner Banham (1969)

“Technology is the answer. But what was

the question?” –

Cedric Price (1965)

How does technology change urban spaces,

buildings, infrastructure, products & services?

How should it?

“The best way to predict the future is

to design it” –

Buckminster Fuller

Job: Status:Barangaroo Concept sketchesDate: 8 February 2009

Informatics

City Information Model

A city information model collates and processes real-time data on the city’s activities, both as an ongoing planning tool and as the source database for all installations, screens, and web services. A cloud of data emerges from the city, forming the CIM.

A city information model (CIM) is an aggregate of all the building information models for individual buildings in the city, combined with data from transit networks, the databases of other civic services, and a multitude of tiny sensors measur-ing various aspects, such as air quality, water quality, motion, heat, light, waste, presence of mobile phones and so on. Conceptually, it is a meta-database containing all relevant data about the way the city is actually performing.

A city information model for Barangaroo can handle both longitudinal data on performance - from early stage planning through to ongoing post-occupancy evaluations, enabling a true lifecycle approach - to real-time feedback on activity, thus enabling attitudinal change and increased effectiveness in all aspects of city life. It can slowly be augmented by data from the rest of Sydney, as that data emerges, such that Baranga-roo becomes a dashboard for the city.

Real-time feedback on resource consumption can affect attitude, and thus engender behavioural change. Fed by sensors, the model analyses activity and provides feedback accordingly - in the form of informational services delivered to web, mobile and the street - and so in turn affects activity.

The CIM provides the basis for all subsequent real-time data public services and displays. It also provides the basis for ongoing planning of Barangaroo.

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Barangaroo / Arup, RHS+P, Speirs + Major, Lend Lease (2008)

Masdar city centre / Arup, LAVA (2009)

The Cloud / Arup, MIT, Atmos et al (2009)

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Sensing Cities / Catapult, with Intel ICRI, Royal Parks, Lend Lease &c (2014)

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Sensing Cities / Catapult, with Intel ICRI, Royal Parks, Lend Lease &c (2014)

Fair Society, Healthy Lives

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Making the invisible visible: the real value of park assets

Sensing Cities / Catapult, with Intel ICRI, Royal Parks, Lend Lease &c (2014)

Cities Unlocked / Catapult, with Microsoft UK, Guide Dogs for the Blind &c (2014)

Cities Unlocked / Catapult, with Microsoft UK, Guide Dogs for the Blind &c (2014)

‘Social Life of Small Urban Places’ / William H. Whyte (1980)

/environments

/buildings

/objects

/services

Wikihouse 2.0 / 00/Arup x Catapult (2014)

Wikihouse 2.0 / 00/Arup x Catapult (2014)

Wikihouse 2.0 / 00/Arup x Catapult (2014)

Museum of the Future 2015 / UAE, Tellart x Catapult (2015)

Museum of the Future 2015 / UAE, Tellart x Catapult (2015)

PixelTrack / BERG x Catapult, with TFL, Lend Lease, V&A, GLA (2014)

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Cities Unlocked / Catapult, with Microsoft UK, Guide Dogs for the Blind &c (2014)

Street furniture

Museum of the Future 2015 / UAE, Tellart x Catapult (2015)

Maintenance robots

/environments

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/services

Open Ideas Platform / GLA x Catapult (2014)

Parklet programme, Los Angeles

Baugespann

“Mauchos”, Constituçion, Chile

UK planning application notices, circa 2014

“What should scale, and why?”

CityMapper

“What should TFL get back from Citymapper?”

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Museum of the Future 2015 / UAE, Tellart x Catapult (2015)

Museum of the Future 2015 / UAE, Tellart x Catapult (2015)

If shared,

-70%? private cars

On-demand shared autonomous vehicles

What kind of city do we

want?

Museum of the Future 2015 / UAE, Tellart x Catapult (2015)

How do we ensure that technologies are well-considered, in order to

create a new civic space, a sense of the city as public good, a better

future city?

Start with the street. Design to ask questions.

Transdisciplinary and human-centred Services and interactions.

Prototype and iterate. Assess what to scale.

Make it tangible. Communicate and discuss.

Dan Hill Executive Director / Chief Design Officer Future Cities Catapult @FutureCitiesCat / futurecities.catapult.org.uk @cityofsound / cityofsound.com

Thank you