Sensing in the wild: A DCODE DRS Lab exploring a more-than-human approach to distributed urban sensing

Sensing in the wild: A DCODE DRS Lab exploring a more-than-human approach to distributed urban sensing

Turtle, G.L. (TU Delft Human Information Communication Design)
Guerrero Millan, Carlos (The University of Edinburgh)
Özçetin, Seda (Umeå University)
Patil, M.S. (Hogeschool van Amsterdam)
Bendor, R. (TU Delft Design Conceptualization and Communication)

2022

The Sensing in the Wild Lab is a speculative experiment in designing a de- centralised urban sensing system from a more-than-human perspective. It is part of DCODE, an H2020-ITN project that explores the future of designing with AI. During the Lab participants assume different identities – roleplaying as children but also as moss, as municipal authorities, as CCTV cameras, as pigeons, and as undocumented immigrants trying to evade the authorities – and are asked to feed into the sensing system data that reflects their particular perspectives and interests. The data partici- pants share, in the form of an image and text uploaded to a dedicated WhatsApp channel, helps to reveal both frictions and alignments among actors. In this, the Lab offers municipalities an opportunity to shift their thinking about the future smart city from a “system of systems” that is optimised for a few city dwellers to a much more distributed, inclusive meshwork in which data is contributed, circulated, and negoti- ated by humans and nonhumans alike.

More-than-human design
Speculative design
Smart city
Artificial Intelligent (AI)

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:05ac2d4f-6cd7-4b07-a673-df1add00c33b

https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.912

Design Research Society

DRS2022: LABS

DRS 2022, 2022-06-25 → 2022-07-03, Bilbao, Spain

Institutional Repository

conference paper

© 2022 G.L. Turtle, Carlos Guerrero Millan, Seda Özçetin, M.S. Patil, R. Bendor