We would like to invite you to the launch of the Dublin Dashboard.
The Dublin Dashboard provides citizens, public sector workers and companies with real-time information, time-series indicator data, and interactive maps about all aspects of the city. It enables users to gain detailed, up to date intelligence about the city that aids everyday decision making and fosters evidence-informed analysis.
The Dublin Dashboard pulls together data from major data sources — including Dublin City Council, Dublinked, Central Statistics Office, Eurostat, and government departments, and links to a variety of existing applications — to provide thousands of interactive data visualisations. The underlying data is freely available so others can undertake their own analysis and build their own applications and visualisations.
The Dublin Dashboard has been produced by The Programmable City project and AIRO at Maynooth University, working with Dublin City Council, and has been funded by the European Research Council and Science Foundation Ireland.
The event will take place in Wood Quay, Dublin City Council on Friday, 19th September 2014. Registration will start at 10.30am, and Owen Keegan, Chief Executive of Dublin City Council, will officially open the event at 11.00am, which will close no later than 13.00.
These seminar videos explore systems such as The City Dashboard and the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) in terms of data collection, visualization and analysis. Joining these up creates a move towards the Smart City and via innovations in IoT a look towards augmented reality pointing towards the the creation of a ‘Smart Citizen‘, ‘the Quantified Self’ and ultimately a Smart City.
Bio: Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith is Director of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at The Bartlett, University College London, Reader in Digital Urban Systems and Editor-in-Chief of Future Internet Journal. He is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Greater London Authority Smart London Board and Course Founder of the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation and MSc in Smart Cities at University College London.
Session 4: Programmable City Project Team, included project introductions from Postdoctoral Researchers and PhD students. Here are links to the slides the complete program.
Robert Bradshaw, Smart Bikeshare
Dr Sophia Maalsen, How are discourses and practices of city governance translated into code?
Jim Merricks White, Towards a Digital Urban Commons:Developing a situated computing praxis for a more direct democracy
Alan Moore, The Role of Dublin in the Global Innovation Network of Cloud Computing
Dr Leighton Evans, How does software alter the forms and nature of work?
Darach Mac Donncha, ‘How software is discursively produced and legitimised by vested interests’
Session 3: Smart Cities included papers from Siobhan Clarke (Trinity College Dublin) and Adam Greenfield (London School of Economics). Here are links to the slides the complete program.
Session 2: Data and Cities included papers from Tim Reardon (Assistant Director of Data Services, Boston Metropolitan Area Planning Council) and Tracey P. Lauriault (Programmable City Project). Here are links to the slides the complete program.
In early September the Programmable City project at NUI Maynooth will be hosting a number of the foremost thinkers on the intersection of software, ubiquitous computing and the city for a two day workshop entitled ‘Code and the City’.
We’re really excited to be gathering together these scholars to discuss their ideas and research. We’ve structured the programme so that each session lasts for two hours, with c. an hour for presentations, followed by an hour of discussion and debate. Full draft written papers will be circulated in advance to attendees.
To try and make sure the event operates as a workshop we are limiting the numbers attending to the speakers, plus our team, plus a handful of open slots. If you are interested in attending then please email Sung-Yueh.Perng@nuim.ie with your request by June 6th, setting out why you would like to attend. We will then allocate the additional places by June 13th.
Introduction
Code and the City
Rob Kitchin, NIRSA, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Session 1: Automation/algorithms
Cities in code: how software repositories express urban life
Adrian Mackenzie, Sociology, Lancaster University
Autonomy and automation in the coded city
Sam Kinsley, Geography, University of Exeter
Interfacing Urban Intelligence
Shannon Mattern, Media Studies, New School NY
Session 2: Abstraction and urbanisation
Encountering the city at hackathons
Sophia Maalsen and Sung-Yueh Perng, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Disclosing Disaster? A Study of Ethics, Praxeology and Phenomenology in a Mobile World
Monika Büscher, With Michael Liegl, Katrina Petersen, Mobilities.Lab, Lancaster University, UK
Riot’s Ratio, on the genealogy of agent-based modeling and the cities of civil war
Matthew Fuller and Graham Harwood, Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths
Session 3: Social/locative media
Digital social interactions in the city: Reflecting on location-based social media
Luigina Ciolfi, Human-Centred Computing, Sheffield Hallam University
A Window, a Message, or a Medium? Learning about cities from Instagram
Lev Manovich, Computer Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Feeling place in the city: strange ontologies, Foursquare and location-based social media
Leighton Evans, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Mobility in the actually existing smart city: Developing a multilayered model for the mobile computing dispositif
Jim Merricks White, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Session 4: Knowledge classification and ontology
Cities and Context: The Codification of Small Areas through Geodemographic Classification
Alex Singleton, Geography, University of Liverpool
The city and the Feudal Internet: Examining Institutional Materialities
Paul Dourish, Informatics, UC Irvine
From Jerusalem to Kansas City: New geopolitics and the Semantic Web
Heather Ford and Mark Graham, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Session 5: Governance
From community access to community calculation: exploring alternative urban governance through code
Alison Powell, Media & Communications, LSE
Code and the socio-spatial stratification of the city
Agnieszka Leszczynski, Geography, University of Birmingham
The Cryptographic City
David M. Berry, Media & Communication, University of Sussex
