Slides for my talk at IxDA London in April 2014: http://www.meetup.com/IxDA-London/events/174859602/ Find the notes on: https://medium.com/@sjors/the-futures-of-the-city-d434391d4fe2

1. The Futures
of the City
Design Fiction and
Urban IxD
Sjors Timmer
IxDA London 2014

2. 1. The futures of the city
2. Urban IxD and Design Fiction
3. Urban IxD summer school

3. The futures of the
city
1.

4. Futurama 1939
GM’s vision of the future

5. To New Horizons
Designed by Norman Bel Geddes

6. Human Scale
A film by Andreas M. Dalsgaard

7. Today’s vision of tomorrow’s city

8. Intelligent Operations Center
IBM Smarter Cities

9. Smart City Barcelona
Cisco

10. Intelligent cities
Philips

11. What language is used to talk about
cities?

12. This is not an
argument against
the Smart City

13. Or in favour of a
human centred
approach

14. A good science fiction story should be able to
predict not the automobile but the traffic
jam.
– Frederik Pohl

15. The futures cone
By Dr Joseph Voros (via Tobias Revell)

16. The futures cone
By Dr Joseph Voros (via Tobias Revell)

17. The futures cone
By Dr Joseph Voros (via Tobias Revell)

18. 2. Urban IxD &
Critical Design &
Design Fiction

19. Urban IxD

20. [Urban IxD is] the artful integration of
people, place and technology.
– Marcus Foth
Via urbanixd.eu/opinions

21. Urban IxD
Urban IxD Project
Urban IxD Summer School

22. The production of fictional concepts
[as] a suggestion for how to proceed
and understand the problem space
Via Urban IxD Summer School Reader

23. How to go about doing that?

24. Urban IxD
Critical DesignDesign Fiction

25. Urban IxD
Design Fiction Critical Design

26. Critical Design uses speculative design
proposals to challenge narrow
assumptions, preconceptions and
givens about the role products play in
everyday life.
– Dunne and Raby
Via Dunne and Raby

27. Robots
Dunne & Raby

28. Urban IxD
Critical DesignDesign Fiction

29. Design Fiction uses a fictional frame
to make an argument about a
potential future by demonstrating
that future in a context that a large
public audience can understand.
– Joshua Glen Tanenbaum
Via Quora

30. Corner Convenience
Near Future Laboratory

31. For more on critical design and
design fiction read the great article
Tobias Revell at
bit.ly/criticaldesign

32. 3. Urban IxD
Summer School

33. The aim was to produce fictional
concepts as a suggestion for how to
proceed and understand the problem
space of Urban IxD
Via Urban IxD Summer School Reader

34. Split

35. Dom mladih (Youth Centre)

36. Photo via UrbanIxD

37. Photo viaUrbanIxDPhoto via Pika Novak

38. Photo via Niels WoutersPhoto via Chris Hand

39. So what was made?

40. Fabrika Split
By Sandy Claes, Karey Helms,
Pika Novak, Sjors Timmer

41. Photo via Diana Edelman

49. Ministry of disinformation

50. Auro City
Mara Balestrini, Sandro Engel,
Ena Hadžić and Assunta Matassa

53. Techno Shaman
By Divya Viswanathan, Daria Casciani

54. You can find all the projects’ videos
and background stories at
bit.ly/urban_ixd

55. Thank you
Sjors Timmer, IxDA London 2014