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World Future Digital City@FenS: "The Digital City in the Next Five Years"
- Time: 5th – 6th June, 2009
- Place: Cap Digital, 74 rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine, Paris
Places are limited: Participation by Registration / Invitation only
International guests (political advisors, planners, thinkers, creatives, business, research) and their Paris City/Region equivalent have been invited to collaborate in discussing and designing the new paradigm of the digital city.
Cap Digital’s international event aims to review and integrate the experience and insight generated and gained in the first days of the festival with the ideas, visions, and prototypes of practitioners, thinkers, and creatives, who have been invited from international cities renowned for their creativity in urban design and innovative digital applications. The international participants have been urged to show prototypes and demonstrations of their visionary work and to engage in workshops and interactive participation.
The event starts with an International Conference, moderated by Andrew Bullen and Humberto Schwab, on the key issues pertaining to the impact of the digital media environment, products, services, tools and applications on the form and experience of life in the city of the future. European city representatives will engage in a Socratic Discourse, led by philosopher Schwab, on the burning questions around the future digital city, whilst visionary European digital prototypes and projects will be presented. The participants will then come together to define fundamental values and best practices, leading towards a collaborative vision and scenarios around such key areas as trust, mobility, sustainability, care and collaborative urban design.
In the evening, participants will have the opportunity to enjoy a special boat trip, visiting Futur-en-Seine prototypes.
On the second day of the event, the focus turns from presentation and debate to a “hands-on” creative lab to design and build prototype “blue-prints” for the digital city of the future on the basis of the values, visions and scenarios generated on the first day. Waag Society from Amsterdam will collaborate with the ENSCI School of Industrial Design and Nodesign from Paris to support participants in the move from vision to prototype on a physical level. The event ends with a presentation to the city and the international public of the visions and prototypes, underlined by recommendations for the measures, values, and collaborations needed to create an international paradigm for the digital city of the future.
Please note that, due to limited space, participation in this event is possible only by prior registration or invitation.
If you are interested in participating in the International Conference “The Digital City in the Next Five Years” or have general inquiries about the international “Futur en Seine” festival, please contact Olivia Dasté on +33 (0)1 40 41 11 86 or by email:
international@capdigital.com.
“The Digital City in the Next Five Years”
Closing Event of the Futur en Seine International Festival
Cap Digital, 74 rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine , Paris - 5/6th June, 2009
Places are limited: Participation by Registration / Invitation only
Conference: "The Digital City in the next 5 years"
Moderation Andrew Bullen / Humberto Schwab
Morning
- Opening, Introduction:
Reports on the Festival: new ideas, visions, projects
With Christophe Aguiton (Orange Labs), speaker from World Information City - Discussion / Socratic discourse with representatives of the cities and philosopher Humberto Schwab
What are the burning questions concerning the digital city of the future?
Confirmed participants:
Rick Batelaan (Senior Advisor, Infrastracture, Traffic & Transport, Municipality of Amsterdam)
Marleen Stikker (Founder and Director, Waag Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam)
Lia Ghilardi (Founder and Director of Noema Research and Planning Ltd, London)
Leonard Wright (Co-organiser Convergence Chicago)
Pouline Middleton (Director, Crossroads Copenhagen)
Brendan Moffat (Director Strategic Marketing, Creative Sheffield)
Phil Jones (Managing Director, Wired Sussex, Brighton)
Mr Lari Lohikoski (Program Director, Culminatum Innovation, Helsinki)
Murielle Gagnon (Director Strategic programs and Joint Initiatives, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ottawa)
Barcelona... - Prototypes and projects for the Digital City of the Future:
Amsterdam (Rick Bartelaan / Personal Traffic Assistant)
Amsterdam (Frank Kresin / Digital Media and Sustainability in the City)
Amsterdam (Marleen Stikker: From First European “Digital City” to the Present)
London (Lia Ghilardi: Cultural Mapping, Identity, Cities)
Ottawa (Murielle Gagnon, Digital Nomadism)
Chicago (Leonard Wright: Digital Convergence)
Paris (Stephane Distinguin)
Sheffield (Brendan Moffat)
Brighton (Phil Jones)
...and more...
With focus on aspects of:
- Trust / Control
- Mobility
- Sustainability
- Identity / Collaborative urban design
Lunch
Afternoon
- - Introduction of the Workshops
- Defining values, best practices, visions
- Building scenarios
- Presentation of the collaborative visions, recommendations and scenarios for the digital city of the future
Evening
Possibility of a boat trip to visit Futur-en-Seine prototypes
Digital City Lab, Physical design and prototyping
In collaboration with Waag Society, Amsterdam, Nodesign, Paris, and students from the ENSCI School for Industrial Design
Morning
- Recap of values, visions, scenarios and recommendations
- Introduction to prototyping with “scrap” – renewable materials from the city
- Inspiration session (Presentation of inspirational scenarios, projects)
- Live Video Link with Amsterdam Sustainability Festival: Workshops for the Citizens. Opening of the event live from Amsterdam / Paris with senior representatives of the cities
- Brainstorming Session
Lunch
Afternoon
- Creative brainstorming and prototyping
- 17:00 Presentation
- Presentation of the Visions, Prototypes and Recommendations
- Discussion on the continuation of the concept development and design process - 18:00 End