Opening presentation delivered at the Amsterdam Smart Citizens Lab public kick-off on May 13th in De Waag, Amsterdam.

1. Smart Citizens Lab
#IAmSmart
ascl@waag.org
#IAmSmart

2. Welcome & intro
Frank Kresin
Hester Volten
Matchmaking
Tools & concepts
Pieter van Boheemen
Christine van den Horn
Approach
Programme

3. SenseMakers
Amsterdam

4. Frank Kresin
Waag Society
@kresin

5. • Institute for Art,
Science & Technology
• Since 1994, 50 Staff,
based in Amsterdam
• Artistic research,
critical design & social
innovation
• Exploring emergent
technologies &
opening them up
Waag Society

6. • For self expression
and communication
• Linking people,
groups, communities
• Sharing thoughts,
blueprints, algorithms
• Reflecting &
understanding
And discovering it’s
underlying meaning.
Technology

7. • Making is crucial to
understand and act in
our world
• Best producer is the
user
• (S)he can learn to
make (almost)
anything
• Sharing knowledge is
the key to innovation
Maker Ethics

8. Smart Citizens
• Will take responsibility for the place they live, work and love;
• Value access over ownership, contribution over power;
• Will ask forgiveness, not permission;
• Know where they can get the tools, knowledge and support;
• Value empathy, dialogue and trust;
• Appropriate technology, rather than accept it as is;
• Will help the people that struggle with smart stuff;
• Ask questions, before they come up with answers;
• Take part in design efforts to come up with better solutions;
• Work agile, prototype early, test quickly, start all over;
• Will not stop in the face of huge barriers;
• Continuously share their knowledge and their learning.
http://waag.org/nl/blog/manifesto-smart-citizens

9. Urban Environmental Challenges

10. Amsterdam Measuring Stations
http://www.luchtmetingen.amsterdam.nl/

14. Smart Citizens Lab

15. Empower people to:
• Make visible and
tangible the invisible
• Understand their
environment
• Turn data and insight
into action
• Using public networks
of low cost, open
source sensors

16. • Better informed, more
engaged residents
• Impactful dialogues
between residents and
governments
• More data, more
insight, better policies
• More enjoyable, social,
inclusive, healthy &
livable cities
Resulting in
Issue Mapping:
Topical Barcamp
Sensors:
Open Hardware
Bootcamp
Sensing:
Data Collection
Understanding:
Visualisation &
Interpretation
Action:
Community Meetup
HvA
RIVM
AMS / Alterra
SenseMakers
AmEcBoard
Amsterdam CTO
FabLab Amsterdam
Open Wetlab
Waag Society
Amsterdam Smart Citizens Lab
Activities Phase 1 Partners
http://waag.org/en/project/smart-citizens-lab

17. Planning
Date Topic
May 13 Kick off
May 21 Making sensors
June 3 Making Sensors
June 10 Collection Strategies
July - Aug Sensing & Collecting
Sep 9 Analyzing & Visualization
Oct 7 Final Event

18. Hester Volten
RIVM
@HesterVolten

19. Welcome & intro
Frank Kresin
Hester Volten
Matchmaking
Tools & concepts
Pieter van Boheemen
Christine van den Horn
Approach
Programme

20. Matchmaking

21. Welcome & intro
Frank Kresin
Hester Volten
Matchmaking
Tools & concepts
Pieter van Boheemen
Christine van den Horn
Approach
Programme

22. Pieter van Boheemen
Waag Society
@pietervboheemen

23. Smart Citizens
Examples
#IAmSmart

24. Topics & Scenarios

25. Zooniverse

26. Air quality: Smart Citizen Kit

27. Noise levels

28. Air Quality Egg

29. DustDuino

30. Humidity, UV and Temp: CliMate

31. Biomonitoring: Strawberry plant

32. Public Lab

33. Kite mapping

34. Plant health: Infrared imaging

35. DIY Tools: Spectral Workbench

36. Citizens making marks: Findery

37. Water quality monitoring

38. Secchi Disk

39. Turbidity: iQwtr

40. Total Dissolved Particles DIY sensor

41. Soil moisture

42. Mood tracking

43. Biomonitoring

44. Christine van den Horn
Waag Society

45. Exploring Sensing
Strategies
(mini design challenge)

46. mini design challenge
1. Define the challenge
2. Take a look at the available
ingredients:
- space (the city)
- people
- tools
- events
- communication networks
3. Define your sensing strategy and
its goal. Develop a concept &
materialize it.
Define the roles, relations and all
touchpoints (what’s needed)
4. Discussion - reviewing the impact

47. mini design challenge
The rules/requirements:
The cheaper the technology the more
means
Use the communication network as
efficient as possible
Involve as many people as possible
Think about target groups &
incentives
Make sure people with the right skills
are involved
The goal: create as much as possible impact

48. the assignment

49. Welcome & intro
Frank Kresin
Hester Volten
Matchmaking
Tools & concepts
Pieter van Boheemen
Christine van den Horn
Approach
Programme

50. Pieter van Boheemen
Christine van den Horn
Waag Society

51. Smart Citizens Lab
Continued…

52. Planning
Date Topic
May 13 Kick off
May 21 Making sensors
June 3 Making Sensors
June 10 Collection Strategies
July - Aug Sensing & Collecting
Sep 9 Analyzing & Visualization
Oct 7 Final Event

53. ASCL Platform: Meetup Group

54. Membership
• 35 EUR
• Access to all 6 remaining events (10 EUR discount)
• #IAMSmart t-shirt
• #IAMSmart title on meetup

55. Hashtag:
#IAMSmart

56. SenseMakers
Amsterdam