Post—Optimal Cities Paolo Patelli

@paolopatelli

CITY | DATA | FUTUREUrbanIxD

Venezia, September, 25th 2014

View from the International Space Station (2011)

Challenges

Centro de Operacões, Rio de Janeiro

1, 2, 3…The “Smart” Promise

1 — Dynamics of social media

2 — Analytics of Big Data

3 — Self–aware urban infrastructure.

The rhetoric of the futureIndustry complex

In any-space-whatever

an infinite potential develops

in an objectively measurable way

in a time always yet to come

…

Introduction to Planit Valley

Introduction to Planit Valley

Siemens Real-Time Government Scenario

Linguistic analysis of Siemens Real-Time Government Scenario

Cross-section of an undersea cable (photo: Ann Lingard)

Timo Arnall, Wireless in the world

Dennis Crompton, Computer City Project (1964)

A commercial opportunityOptimality in performance

A new marketHuman relationships

What is the role of the designer? What space does she/he have left?

Technology is the result. How was it constructed?

Social dreamingSocial construction

Social construction, adoption and adaptation of new communication technologies

vs

Technocratic dream of a fully manageable and controllable urban system.

Giancarlo de Carlo, Participation City (Osaka, 1970)

Giancarlo de Carlo, Participation City (Osaka, 1970)

Cedric Price, Fun Palace (1961)

New levels of efficiencyOptimality

Engagement and actionPost—optimality

augmentation

collaborationconfrontation

appropriation

City Protocol

Spheres and spacesHybrid Publics

Public life pretends careful attention to geographical considerations and to the virtues of particularity.

The polis as actionSpace of appearance

The space where I appear to others as others appear to me.

[…]

Wherever men are together in the manner of speech and action.

Hannah Arendt

Engagement and actionPublic matters

The type of political life described by Arendt is essential for the production of a public sphere, where citizens can confer about matters of general interest, including the management of civic resources.

Techno-determinism“The Data Is the Data”

The industry’s language produce autonomous systems acting on perfect knowledge.

Adam Greenfield, Against the Smart City (2013)

A permanent place for conflictThe city

In the city, confrontation and disagreement are continuously ongoing. Cities live in a condition of contestation and dissensus, that is fundamental to democracy, rather than in one of consensus and rationality.

Design as AgonismThe political

“Adversarial design” uses the means and forms of design to challenge beliefs, values, and what is taken to be fact.

Carl DiSalvo

Is it possible to imagine contemporary designed (connected) things that do the work of agonism in the city?

Can we build typologies to ask questions and raise issues in society and culture?

How can we imagine an urban political space that considers the multiple “spaces of appearance” of the contemporary urban experience?

Can we imagine new “typologies of situated interactions”?

Kevin Lynch, The Perceptual Form of the City (1954-59)

Senseable City Lab, Trash Track (2009)

MIT Senseable City Lab, Backtalk (2011)

MIT Senseable City Lab, Enernet (2011)

Rooms and Noise as Media @ Strelka Institute

Brodsky & Utkin, Columbarium Habitabile (1989-1990)

Leonid Nikolaevich Pavlov, Automotive service center “Lada”. Moscow (1967-1977)

Rooms and Noise as Media @ Strelka Institute

Rooms and Noise as Media @ Strelka Institute

Rooms and Noise as Media @ Strelka Institute

Welcome to Ard el-Lewa

Welcome to Ard el-Lewa

Welcome to Ard el-Lewa

Welcome to Ard el-Lewa

Welcome to Ard el-Lewa

Welcome to Ard el-Lewa

Welcome to Ard el-Lewa

Welcome to Ard el-Lewa

PPPP, Illustration by Dunne & Raby

Welcome to Ard el-Lewa

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Welcome to Ard el-Lewa

Welcome to Ard el-Lewa

Smart CitiesPost—Optimal

A new conceptual territory on which to explore networked environments as post-optimal “turns the attention away from the familiar attempt to achieve optimum performance levels and towards more fundamental (philosophical, social, aesthetical) issues”.

Milano / Eindhoven

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CITY | DATA | FUTUREUrbanIxD

Venezia, September, 25th 2014

Thanks. Paolo Patelli