The co-designed city; building smart cities with embedded social justice

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[ Session Name ] The co-designed city; building smart cities with embedded social justice [ Primary Space ] Decentralisation [ Secondary Space ] Openness

[ Submitter's Name ] Florence Okoye [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] AfroFutures_UK

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[ Language ] Spanish

[ Localisation Support Requested ] No, I can host the session myself

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What will happen in your session?

The session will be structured as a design jam where participants go through the user centred creation process to prototype features for (or even an entire) smart city which puts intersectionality at the heart of its digital and physical architecture.

Combining methods inspired by critical design and community centred practice and traditional Igbo masquerade (mmanwu) performance, we will start by ideating based on not only issues but also existing solutions we see in our own contexts, then perform light ethnography amongst fellow Mozfest attendees and the local community before getting down to prototyping our solutions through cardboard, code and post-its!

Following an iterative design and test process, we will end up with prototypes of a human+environment centred smart city.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

A lot of conversation about smart cities in the UK have been driven by businesses and tech enthusiasts. The goal of this session is to help subvert this by

a) opening the service design process to people interested in user centred approaches to developing solutions (tech based or otherwise) for their community b) through the collaborative ways of working, help participants learn from each other about initiatives and projects they can participate in c) raise awareness amongst technologists about the power of user centred design to create tech that is secure, accessible as well as cool.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

Projector (presentation) Extension chords (for participants laptops and electronics) Office supplies Cardboard Glue/sellotape

Time needed

90 mins

[KadeMorton]

Thanks for the submission! If you want (but you don't have to), feel free you see if you want to work our zone theme into your session https://github.com/KadeMorton/Xenshana

[Biscuitnapper]

@KadeMorton Thank you for the suggestion. Actually that nicely ties into some of my work using AfroFuturist fiction as a tool for speculative design...!

[Biscuitnapper]

All good for me. Happy for this to be added as is to the program.