healthier cities, dan hill, future cities catapult
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—Healthier CitiesDan HillExecutive Director / Chief Design Officer Future Cities Catapult @cityofsound
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THE KINGS MOST SACRED
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Background Who we talked to
Our choice of transport can make a big impact on air quality. For this UHDVRQ��ZH�UHFUXLWHG����SHRSOH�WR�FRYHU�D�VSUHDG�RI�GLHUHQW�WUDQVSRUW�modes, including: car commuters, users of public transport, walkers, cyclists, a taxi driver and a tube driver.
For inspiration design research looks to the extremes, as well as the norm. Our sample included: school run mums, buggy pushers, asthma VXHUHUV��LQKDELWDQWV�RI�OHVV�SROOXWHG��PRUH�SROOXWHG�SODFHV��D�VHPL�SUR�sports player training outdoors, someone who wears a pollution mask, and someone tracking their own behaviour to make a lifestyle change.
Sensing Cities / Intel ICRI, Royal Parks, Enfield, Future Cities Catapult (2014-)
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Insight 01 Our perceptions of pollution are subjective, rather than scientific
We found:Sensing is believing…We think about pollution only when we see it, feel it or smell it. Our perceptions of pollution are bound by our senses. We see it in crowded commercial areas, in busy WUDF���IURP�KLJK�YDQWDJH�points. We feel it when our breathing tightens, or as a layer on our hands, our faces or even on our hair.
“I do notice [with the air] on holiday that I don’t have to wash my hair as much as I
do here. ±�7������(Q¿HOG
“Sometimes you can just feel it on your face, it’s just grimy. It makes
your lungs tighten. ±�&������(Q¿HOG
Sensing Cities / Intel ICRI, Royal Parks, Enfield, Future Cities Catapult (2014-)
—Distributed, decentralised. Modular, cellular, adaptive. Parasitical, accreting, blurring.High-quality fine-grain spaces and interactions.Citizen-centred urban services. Wild, verdant, biodiverse, physical/digital.Predictive, algorithmic, learning, open.Human and natural and robotic.Relational systems, shearing layers.Strategic co-benefits.Small pieces, loosely joined.
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A healthy new strain of urbanism?