Great places come from understanding and responding to the needs of their people. Traditional consultation can be manual, time intensive and a one-off snapshot. Commonplace tools aim to provide an ongoing channel of understanding and collaboration. Customers use Commonplace to reveal…
Streetlights are a vital part of every city, providing citizens and business with safety and security. But what if we could use our street lighting network in a more intelligent way rather than the simple on-off system that currently exists.Through…
An example of real time information is Glasgow's Active Travel Demonstrator. App that aims to show how technology can help make the city friendlier to cyclists and pedestrians - encouraging people to get active as they go about their daily…
An example of a digital cultural installation is the Hello Lamp Post, an experimental, city-wide platform for play; an opportunity to rediscover your local environment, share your memories of the city and uncover the stories that other people leave behind.Hello…
An example of mapping (real time) is the London City Dashboard on microclimate – air quality, temperature http://citydashboard.org/london/ Information provided by Judith Sykes at the 8th Symposium Métropoles du Sud – ENSAM (January 2016)
The network of public spaces in central London between Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square is the heart of national government and, for many, the heart of London. A masterplan for the area was commissioned in 1996 by Westminster City Council…
It's part of a research project at the London School of Economics. Mappiness maps happiness across space in the UK to better understand how people's feelings are affected by features of their current environment—things like air pollution, noise, and green…