La Ville 2.0 ...City 2.0
Sharing the city through IT and all the rest
In early February I attended an interesting session of the E2 network club run by Experts consulting and Laser through their information technology hub, l'Echangeur. These regular sessions are often a chance to discover innovate enterprise, to update on the latest trends or simply network with IT related professionals.
Today's session explored the 2.0 City...where are we headed for, how and with what tools. Food for thought was provided by a panel of specialist who covered the subject fairly extensively although nobody touched on virtual cities and virtual tools in tomorrows 2.0 land.
Thierry Marcou from FING and Bruno Marzloff from the Chronos consultancy kicked off with a synopsis of their work based on the idea of 'reading and writing' the 2.0 city. They based their presantation on 4 major ideas, covering the city as a platform for innovation, the city as both a complexe and familiar place, the importance of mobility that is both free and sustainable, the idea of a 'hyper local' space that can be seen and made to be seen...Ideas ranged from co-creation, collaborative innovation, mutually beneficial infrastucture and services, fluidity of movement, and interaction between physical and numeric signage.
Having presented these ideas (sadly not that many case studies so all quite 'theoretical') Marzloff went on to present the 5th screen. In short the idea that we live with screens and new dialogue can be created between public screens and our own portable screens of whatever form they may be. This last point raised a few questions at the end on how compatible our very 'personal' and rather inward looking screen life (telephones, laptops, gps, etc) is within a city where public screens are made to share. This idea of citizen's sharing knowledge through open spaces and screens was furthered discussed when Pierre Antoine Durgeat and Axel Lenté of 'dismoioù.fr'(tellemewhere) presented their concept of shared information through a website that becomes a source of information for everthing local (and not global). Both ideas touched on the concept that today's city dweller would be better off sharing information with fellow city dwellers than keeping it all to himself. CItyWall is a tactile screen that has been set up in Helsinki (apparently one of Europe's more 2.0 Cities) where several people can use it and activate it at the same time.
I asked the speaker if they had an ideal 2.0 City. Cities quoted were Helsinki, Tokyo, San Fransisco (twitter town) and even Bogota. I suppose a city is so enorlously complicated in terms of public transport, public institutions that making the step to a 'next generation' city is a massive one. Given that there is still no city wide free wifi in Paris, and very few interactive information screens or terminals, and mobile telephone data is so expensive, we are still a long way from a totally ubiquitous city...
A totally ubiquitous lifestyle is possibly still a pipe dream for many a communicator and yet I'm sure there is a lot more out there begging to be adapted and mobilised. And the other day, as I cycled around Paris looking for a café with free wifi connections, I realised I didn't know where to go for the perfect mobile day...working on the go and stopping off at a quiet, non starbucks like, wifi, totally connected, yes you can use your computer place. Any feed back on this and a few pointers, would be most gratefully accepted.
Mots-clés : ville 2.0, 2.0 City, experts, Marzloff, City Wall, FING, ChronosL'Echangeur, Laser, IT
Ecrit par Caroline
le Vendredi 21 Mars 2008, 03:17
dans "News"
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