TABLE OF CONTENTS Sophie Peters, Marco van den Boogaert, Ronald Heeren, Nick van Garderen
“INPUT PROGRESS individual
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for PUBLIC
INTRODUCTION FINDINGS CONCLUSION DESIGN
INTRODUCTION Over the course of the past few years civilian participation has become more and more important. At the same time the world has seen a big development when it comes to the digital era considering the usage, supply and demand of personal data into the open. One of the many professional fields that is starting to discover the advantages of these developments is the field of Urbanism and Urban Planning. Various projects considering city planning or small scale neighbourhood oriented projects have taken on the challenge of improving the social structure, the looks and feels of an urban area through the means of collecting or using data. However this is still a new playingfield for urbanists and urban developers. Thusly we set out to gather information about a neighbourhood in Eindhoven, the Netherlands (Strijp-S to be precise) and the collection and usage of personal data. Through a questionnaire various people living and working in the area were asked about their supply of personal data and whether or not they would offer to have their data used for the better of the society or neighbourhood. Based on these
findings we tried to come up with an urban intervention, harmonzing the answers that were taken from the survey with a goal to improve the neighbourhood. This was how the concept for SWIPE-S emerged; an interactive platform in which individual input combined delivers a communital wish for the improvement of the neighbourhood.
FINDINGS 25 PEOPLE QUESTIONNAIRED ABOUT THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AND PERSONAL DATA
of the 25 respondents 15 were male, 10 female
30
The average respondent was
,2
years old
All respondents either live or work in STRIJP-S
23/25 were Dutch
The first thing that showed through the survey was the wish of respondents to be aware of what data is collected of and about them and how this is put to use. As long as this info was anonymized up to 60% of respondents was on terms with having their data used. When put in context with the prospect of being able to improve your neighbourhood by supplying personal data even up to 80% agreed on sharing personal data, on some terms. The main objective of these terms is that people wish to know why their data is collected and what it is used for (Transparancy), the guarantee of anonimity and the knowledge of the fact that your input is valued and taken into account by the collector of the data. Aside from the outcome of the datarelated questions, the survey also found outcomes on the overall approval of the neighbourhood. It came forward that none of the respondents is unsatisfied about the neighbourhood STRIJP-S, and that most struggle to find something negative to mention about it. However all of the respondents do have a personal wish as to what specific functions/locations the neighbourhood is missing.
CONCLUSIONS For the next steps in our designprocess the two findings: 1) People are willing to supply data as long as its goals are transparant, the data is anonymized and it is put to use. 2) There is great diversity in opinion as to what needs to be added to the neighbourhood. needed to be combined. This led to the planting of the seed that came to be SWIPE-S. The neighbourhood needed a way to give individuals the possibility to give input in order to inform the actors in the area (developers and municipality) about how the local citizens would like to see the neighbourhood improve. Strijp-S needed a form, a device of using individual input for public progress.
DESIGN To fulfil the need for a device that allows individual, local input to generate public progress SWIPE-S emerged. The concept of SWIPE-S consists of an interactive ‘swipable’ screen on various locations in the area of STRIJP-S that are currently or planned on being developed. These screens are all connected to two large screens located at the ‘entrances’ of the main street in STRIJP-S; the Torenallee. These will show input given on the SWIPE-S screens placed in the area, and thusly ‘reporting back’ to the community at large. The screens offer multiple modes; 1) Information on the past and the future of the area that the screen is located 2) Creating/sketching what you feel should be placed on the location the screen is located. 3) A way to tell your own experience about the area the screen is located through textual editing of the area. All modes show direct changes to the real life taken picture of the location by the device.
DESIGN The interactive ‘creating’ mode allows individuals to ‘alter’ a realtime picture of the area made by the device. By adding facilities such as a shopping mall, supermarket, bars & restaurants or school or office building, individuals can make their ‘wish’ come true in their input for the area. Besides facilities, nature, housing and much more are available categories of which individuals can choose to ‘alter’ reality and give input to the process of developing the region of STRIJP-S. After completing their ‘sketch’ and hitting send the image will ‘visually’ be sent to the large homescreens at the entrances of the Torenallee via a lightroute of LEDs, giving direct ‘feedback’ to the individual using the screen.
DESIGN The first phase of the project is chosen to start at sites that are mentioned in many plans for developing STRIJP-S and thusly catch on to the fast developing area and giving citizens an opportunity to weigh in with their views while it is still possible. In the map below the three chosen areas for the interactive screens can be seen as well as the locations for the two ‘homescreens’ at the two ‘entrances’ of the Torenallee, the central ‘avenue’ of STRIJP-S.
On the picture to the right it is seen how the various locations tap into the lightroute created by LEDs that symbolize the transferring of the data-input to the homescreens and thusly creating a direct feedback that input is being used or transferred.