Future cities: renarrating human agency

Future Users, Future Cities: Dweller as designer

Collaborative Design Future Users, Future Cities: Dweller as designer Murat Germen, Emrah Kavlak Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey (http://www.muratgermen.com), (http://www.emrahkavlak.com) [email protected], [email protected] Abstract. As technology advances, users get more detached from the way things work and are produced. Users end up being pure consumers and leave their p...

The seismic future of cities

The final projected doubling in Earth’s population in the next half century, requires an additional 1 billion housing units, more dwellings constructed in a single generation than at any time in Earth’s history. Earth’s tenfold increase in population has occurred during a time that is short compared to the return time of damaging earthquakes. In the next century, therefore, earthquakes that had...

Designing the Tourist Agency of the Future

The Internet has challenged the traditional business model of travel agencies: What is the reason for their existence if information is abundantly available and transactions can be flexibly booked on the Internet? This paper argues that good travel advisory services create a significant added value, if they succeed in uncovering the customers’ hidden needs and creating a better user experience....

Co-Creating the Cities of the Future

In recent years, the evolution of urban environments, jointly with the progress of the Information and Communication sector, have enabled the rapid adoption of new solutions that contribute to the growth in popularity of Smart Cities. Currently, the majority of the world population lives in cities encouraging different stakeholders within these innovative ecosystems to seek new solutions guaran...

The future of farming: pig cities