Smart Citizen - Sense Making - Óscar González, Fablab Barcelona

SENSE
MAKING
Fab Lab Barcelona journey
from Smart Cities to Smart Citizen
FAB LAB BARCELONA 2020 BY-NC-SA 4.0

About Us
Let’s talk about a Fab Lab
Fab Lab Barcelona is a digital fabrication and innovation
laboratory. It inspires a worldwide network of change-makers
to act for social innovation; empowered by digital tools, open
knowledge and leading research.
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The emergence of new industry, technological shifts and a
change in the perception of our environment has led to a
global discussion about the meaning of our cultural
consumption. Distributed Design utilises global connectivity to
move data, instead of products - this situates itself between
the Maker Movement and the digitisation of the design
discipline
Sense Making From Smart Cities to Smart Citizens

Strategic Areas
Fab Lab Barcelona is one of the
research departments of IAAC.
Within the lab, there are seven
research areas that synthesize
our work, and help to
understand how we relate
technology with society and the
environment. These research
areas develop work related to
educational programs, research
and innovation projects, and
collaboration with companies
and organizations.

Sense
Making
Developing tools and technologies
which translate urban environments
into tangible data.
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A bit of our
history
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back in 2012...
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the industrial city
the car city
the green city
the sustainable city
the digital city
the smart city
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What is a
smart city?
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but…
what is the role
of the citizen
here?
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the passive citizen?

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What can we do as
a Fab Lab?

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Traditional game plan

Kit Platform
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our game plan

Kit Platform
Community SMART CITIZEN

SMART
CITIZEN
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WHAT IS SMART CITIZEN?
Open resources and tailored
workshops to help your community
engage
with data and sensors.
An online platform where you own
the data. Explore and conﬁgure your
sensors. Build your own tools
on top of our APIs.
Easy and ready-to-use open source
environmental measuring devices.
SENSOR KITS DATA PLATFORM CITIZEN
PARTICIPATION

@SMARTCITIZENKIT
three
years
later...

TECHNOLOGY ISSUES
& LACK OF SKILLS
DATA ACCURACY
& MEANINGFULNESS
LACK OF PURPOSE
SOCIAL
INTERACTIONS
What did we learn?
How do we foster
sustained community
engagement
How do we empower
emergent communities
around pressing issues
How do we measure
accurate data and
co-design intelligible,
actionable, visualisations
How do we bridge the
knowledge / skills gap

Jan 2015/
June 2018
Nov 2015/
Dec 2017
Sept 2016/
Dec 2019
April 2021/
March 2025
Around
2019
COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION
B2C PRODUCTS & SERVICES
A new journey
Kit
Community
Platform Kit Platform
Community
Platform
Community
Kit
H2020 EUROPEAN RESEARCH
H2020 EUROP

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Creating a community
Kit Platform
Community

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SENSING
Open source technologies that
gather environmental data
With communities across Europe, we will be
co-creating sensors & devices that use the Smart
Citizen platform to capture environmental data.
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AWARENESS
Enabling and designing platforms
for collective sensemaking
We'll be testing tools and methodologies for making
sense of data in pilots in Amsterdam, Barcelona &
Prishtina, and raising awareness of social and
environmental issues.
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ACTION
Moving on a trajectory from
awareness to positive change
With the pilot learnings we will develop the Making
Sense toolkit - a set of resources to organise citizen
sensing campaigns for positive social change.
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MAKING SENSE
BARCELONA
From champions to neighbours
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FAB KIDS LAB
Exploring analogue and digital
sensing, to better build bird
feeders
The Making Sense Barcelona team collaborated with a group
of 15 students aged 9-10 years old to explore the potential of
both analogue and digital sensing to provide a clearer picture
of how pollution can aﬀect local bird species.
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PARTICIPANTS
Water, Soil, Air
ISSUE
Barcelona
LOCATION
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COMMUNITY
CHAMPIONS
Infrastructuring the next
generation of activists
The Barcelona pilot trains a committed group of
environmental activists in the tools and methodologies
needed to conduct participatory sensing campaigns.
The ﬁrst pilot will map and address the issue
of noise pollution, and collective resources.
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PARTICIPANTS
Noise
ISSUE
Barcelona
LOCATION
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PLAÇA DEL SOL
The Neighbourhood Versus The Noise.
The Plaça del Sol in Barcelona is a town square that has historically
suﬀered from the noise of drinking into the early hours of the morning by
crowds drawn from near and far. Working with the Making Sense team in
Barcelona, the neighbourhood association of the Plaça del Sol has been
researching and measuring how high in relation to the norm are noise
levels around the plaça, and what can be to improve the situation.
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PARTICIPANTS
Noise
ISSUE
Barcelona
LOCATION
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NEIGHBOURS
COMMUNITY
@Plaça del sol
COMMUNITY
CHAMPIONS
@Barcelona
SMART
CITIZEN
TEAM
@Fab Lab
Barcelona
How did we work?

NEIGHBOURS
COMMUNITY
@Plaça del sol
COMMUNITY
CHAMPIONS
@Barcelona
How did we work?

NEIGHBOURS
COMMUNITY
@Plaça del sol
How did we work?

SMART
CITIZEN
TEAM
@Fab Lab
Barcelona
COMMUNITY
CHAMPIONS
@Barcelona
NEIGHBOURS
COMMUNITY
@Plaça del sol
How did we work?

PROCESS
Data literacy workshops
Beyond the numbers and
into narratives,
implications and
governance
Participatory Planning
Generating commons,
resources and unpacking
the issues
Community Level Indicators
Setting indicators for
actionable sensor deployment
Co-Creation Methodologies
For achieving collaborative
consensus of strategies,
narratives and interventions
Hard and Soft tools
Co-creating software and
hardware, through tried and
tested digital and analogue
methodologies
Digital Fabrication
Developing ‘maker’ skills
through the huge Fab Lab
network. Cross pollinating the
communities of interest with
communities of practice

MAIN ITEMS
TECHNOLOGY
Operation manuals
Onboarding App
Measuring in no-time
DATA LITERACY
Data journals
Data dashboards
CO-CREATION AND
EVALUATION
Geographical mapping
Future newspaper
Questionnaires
SOCIAL
INTERACTIONS
Co-creation
assemblies
Presentations

TECHNOLOGY

Follow the easy online
on-boarding process
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Start collecting
environmental data
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A NEW
ONBOARDING

DATA LITERACY
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CO-CREATION
AND
EVALUATION

SOCIAL
INTERACTIONS

OUTCOMES

PRESS
Local, national and
international acclaim
The pilot activities have been featured
not only in scientiﬁc publications but
also in digital and printed publications,
as well as televisions, documentaries and
radio interviews and podcasts

making-sense.eu
#MakingSenseEU
Documentation of the campaigns, workshops and process on the Making Sense website

#MakingSenseEU
Find it here
TOOLKIT

Platform
Community
Improving the technology
Kit

iSCAPE (Improving the Smart Control of Air
Pollution in Europe) was a European research and
innovation project active from September 2016 to
December 2019. The project worked on integrating
and advancing the control of air quality and carbon
emissions in European cities in the context of climate
change through the development of sustainable and
passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy
interventions and behavioural change initiatives.

Why?
The urban pollution problem

Urban pollution problem
In 2008, it was issued the Top Ten list of the world’s most
dangerous pollution problems, affecting significant impact
on human health worldwide and result in death, persistent
illness, and neurological impairment for millions of people,
particularly children.
According to the report, many of these deaths and related
illnesses could be avoided with affordable and effective
interventions.
Blacksmith Institute & Green Cross Switzerland
The Top Ten List
Artisanal Gold Mining
Contaminated Surface Water
Groundwater Contamination
Indoor Air Pollution
Metals Smelting and Processing
Industrial Mining Activities
Radioactive Waste and Uranium Mining
Untreated Sewage
Urban Air Quality
Used Lead Acid Battery Recycling

Urban pollution problem
Special focus on vehicular traffic
1. Efforts on vehicle emissions have been significant in large
sized PMs
2. Until the Eu6c, Eu6d-temp introduction and the VW
scandal, OEM’s efforts were focused on homologation
procedures only
3. The real vehicle emissions were higher at road than at
laboratory, specially for Diesel vehicles
4. Engine technology shifts NOx-PM trade-off towards NOx
and lower PM size, more harmful to humans
Although legislation on pollutants emissions are more
stringent, values’ trends are not always decreasing

What to measure?
Main pollutants and sources

Primary pollutants
Emitted by land sources into the atmosphere
[Particulate Matter] from fossil fuel combustion (coal and diesel)
[NOx] from high temperature combustion
[CO2 / H2O / CO / HCs ] from fossil fuel combustion and industry
[SOx] from sulphur containing fuels and coals combustion
[NH3] from agriculture and SCR systems

Secondary pollutants
Formed within the atmosphere after primary pollutants reaction
[Tropospheric Ozone] from CO and NO2 reaction under sunlight
[Sulphuric Acid] from SOx and NO2 creating acid rain
[SMOG] from SOx and vehicular smoke

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dealing with
sensing
complexity

Citizen
Kits
Stations

Citizen
Kits

Station

https://www.sciencedirect.com/scie
nce/article/pii/S2210670719329567
?via%3Dihub#fig0010

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/2
0/11/3073

https://www.sciencedirect.com/scie
nce/article/abs/pii/S2210670720300
639#fig0050

https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/1
3/2413/2020/#&gid=1&pid=1

That’s it for
academia
(for now)
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Where are
we now?
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Citizen
Kits
Stations
PM
Air
chemistry
Weather
metrics
Weather
metrics
PM
Noise
Noise

Citizen
Kits
Stations
Air
chemistry
Weather
metrics
PM
Noise
Water
metrics
Soil
metrics

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Citizen
Kits

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Station

Station specs
● Gas sensors: CO, NO2, NO, O3, SO2, H2S.
These are normally in configurations of 2, 4, or 6
sensors (normally O3 needs NO2 to compensate
for cross-sensitivity)
● CO2 NDIR Sensor with a sensirion SCD30
● PM sensors from Plantower or others similar
optical particle counters (OPC)
● Temperature probe: external temperature probe
for more reliable air temperature sensing
● Ultraviolet radiation
● Noise levels and FFT spectrum from the Smart
Citizen Kit
● Environmental metrics: temperature, humidity,
ambient pressure from the Smart Citizen Kit
Station

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No one can
do
everything

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Collaborations
Facilitate research through customised
development of technical solutions for
academic institutions, research centers,
while developing strong long-lasting
collaborations.
A BUNCH OF LOGOS HERE...

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Develop a portable sensor that can be
attached to a moving vehicle (i.e. a bike)
that can measure environmental
parameters dynamically in the city
Do so by developing hardware, software,
data analysis tools and methodologies for
best practices while measuring with
moving sensors.
Dynamically measure the city
Almabike
Project for University of Bologna

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The Climate Shelters project is an
innovative initiative led by Barcelona City
Council and funded by the European
Commission (Urban Initiative Actions-UIA).
The city of Paris has launched a sister
project called OASIS, which will also
adapt school playgrounds to climate
change using solutions based on natural
elements.
Climate adaptation in schools
School
shelters
More info here

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Measurement of indoor air quality and
environmental metrics (CO2, PM, VOCS,
T, H, …) in private spaces in Barcelona
and relationship with socio-economic
factors, health and impact of airborne
diseases such as SARS-CoV-2.
Measuring indoor air quality
HABITAS

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Water quality sensors were implemented
in the “Patí Cientíﬁc” project which
develops a monitoring program of the
coastal waters of Barcelona using the
instrumentation of the “Patí Català”. This
project aims to acquire oceanographic
variables along the Barcelonian coastline
and will promote citizen involvement.
Measuring the coast
Pati
scientiﬁc
paticientific.org/

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and a few
more
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Keeping
the
essence
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Community
Keeping up with an active community
through forum.smartcitizen.me and social
networks.

Open
repositories
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https://github.com/fablabbcn/smartcitizen-kit-21
https://github.com/fablabbcn/smartcitizen-data
https://github.com/fablabbcn/smartcitizen-enclosures/
https://github.com/fablabbcn/smartcitizen-web/
https://github.com/fablabbcn/smartcitizen-api

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More info

smartcitizen.me
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docs.smartcitizen.me
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Thanks
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