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What’s next? Barcelona The Lab, Can a big city become an open LL? How?. Artur Serra I2cat/Citilab III Summer School of LLs Helsinki, August 22 2012. Crisis provides opportunities. 1. Mobile World Capital. Barcelona Mobile World Capital (2012-2018).
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What’s next? Barcelona The Lab, Can a big city become an open LL? How? Artur Serra I2cat/Citilab III Summer School of LLs Helsinki, August 22 2012
Barcelona Mobile World Capital (2012-2018)
Smart City projects 2010 iCity 2011 Open-DAI 2012 Barcelona participates in 6 from 15 European projects in the area of Smart Cities.
A new City Hall’s Smart City strategy Urban Planning ICT Environment
New City Hall “mantra” on Smart Cities Antoni Vives, Head of Urban Planning, ICT and Environment. Barcelona Vicente Guallart, Chief Architect of Barcelona “ A city of self-sufficient neighborhoods , energetically sustainables and hyper-connected... Many slow cities in the smart city”
Still something missing: The citizen!.
Citilab, a first experiment on citizen engagement in middle size city.
Seniorlab, Musiclab, Laborlab… Some lessons learned: • Seniors is a new group of age. Ageing society doesn’t mean a sick society. Innovation is not the monopoly of youngers. • “Invent your job”, not “looking for a job”. Lesson from SouthernEurope job market. Need radical change in employment policies. • Videogames, music, culture…creates jobs. Need of an urgentchange in educational curricula.
Our Must Win Battles:1. Connecting Lls to the Napster/Facebook generation2. Developing Lls into big cities.
Barcelona The Lab First Open and Distributed Citizen Innovation meeting. Nov. 24-25, 2012
A new unit of the City of Barcelona Jaume Ciurana, head of the new area of Culture, Knowledge, Creativity, and Innovation Inés Garriga, ICUB director of Creativity and Innovation “Knowledge” “Culture” Creativity Innovation
The project: “Barcelona Laboratori Cultural”: • City as an open living lab. An opportunity to put together Future Internet, Smart Cities and Living Labs in a Smart Specialization strategy. • Cultural activities are alive and arrives to every district, every neigborhood, every citizen. (at least in Barcelona) • There is a growing community of innovators of all kind ready to collaborate if municipality creates the open platform.
Gathering all the “innovative communites” around the city. • By expertise: “arduinaires”, “wikipedians”, “Catdrois”, “open source”, fablabers, digital artists, citizen scientists, social innovators, digital designers, livinglabers, open innovators… • By districts and neiborghoods: Sants, Raval, Gracia, NouBarris,… • Plus the “official innovation community”: Univ, corporations,SMEs, public labs,…
Barcelona The Lab, an open project.Can we share the vision?Innovation is for everyone.
Thanks! artur.serra@i2cat.net