ETH+NUU Agenda

The aim of the Smart City is to improve the quality of urban living through the  integration of different information and communication technologies. Nowadays, identities of cities are rapidly deteriorating and vanishing, which will result in the loss of self-identity, sense of a community and sense of a place. This workshop aims to harness data mining technologies together with automatic methods of urban patterns generation to analyze and use information from urban data. To build urban identities in a creative way, an additional data input from citizens’ participatory design tools will be integrated into the framework applied in an existing culture-reserved site in Taipei. The involved citizens’ ideas can inform city authorities and stakeholders after the workshop with their ideas in a more convenient and responsive way, the citizens of the pre-selected area in Taipei will participate in the process by means of the „QUA-KIT“ application – the citizens’ modeling and voting participatory design tool. As a result, the citizens will deliver their opinions, knowledge and suggestions for improvements of the investigated neighborhood from their own design perspective.