Citizen laboratories:Smart cities of the future.

Artur SerraCitilab

Nov. 30th, 2011Smart Cities Expo, Barcelona

“Les maisons font la ville,... les citoyens font la cité”

(Rousseau) (Contrat social, I, vi, note *, OC III[1], p. 361)

Smart City, a necessary new infrastructure

Smart cities need

smart citizens...or not?

Smart cities will becomecitizens labs

Citilab: a Citizen lab

Citilab of Cornellà de Llobregat,

an initial experiment

on cities as citizens labs.

What a living lab is about?

Living Labs are citizen-driven open innovation ecosystems in real-life settings in which innovation is fully integrated in the co-creative co-design processes for new technologies, products, services, and societal infrastructures.”.

(EnoLL PPP Strategic Innovation Ecosystems and Enabling Actions for Addressing Societal Challenges and Improving European Competitiveness

Phase I: Towards the 2020 Horizon

1st step: Forming a PPPP

Amb el suport

2nd: Engaging a local community5000 members, 50 workers

3rd Learning by projects

Seniorlab

Digital Storytelling against school drop-out

MUSICLabFor youngmusicians

Edutec: Learning to innovate

Invent your job!From curriculum to “projectum”

Briefly

1. Smart City can be the infrastructure of the new city.

2. The Smart City, as any other city, needs citizens,smart citizens... although some people still don't believe it.

3. As Citilab is showing, smart citizens are begining to organize its city as an open laboratory plenty of projects, activities, business, new cultural life, new opportunities...

Thanks a lot.Artur Serra

artur.serra@i2cat.net