New ways of living with intelligent things in future cities were discussed. Things will be able to connect to networks, collect real-time data, act proactively, and behave socially. They will essentially function as social entities. Two paradigms for smart cities were outlined: 1) as a dashboard for information and policy; and 2) as an intelligent infrastructure for sensing, actuation, and coordinated action. A third paradigm proposed "Cities of Things" where things are social entities that cannot be fully controlled but governed through social contracts and agreements.

1. Things That Think
New ways of living in future cities

2. Iskander
Smit
Maria Luce
Lupetti
@iskandr @mlucelupetti
Sen Lin
@sunless771

3. Partnerships in Cities of Things

5. Affective Things
Iohanna Nicenboim, Elisa Giaccardi, 2017

7. Roboats
AMS & MIT Senseable Cities Lab

8. Intelligent artefact
- Connect with existing network
- Collect realtime data
- Act proactively
- Behave socially

9. Text
second part
Rush Hour _ Black Sheep Films

10. Things with agency
Intelligent, fed by the cloud, in conversation with humans

11. Cities of Things
How can things connect to existing data and cloud services in the
smart city and act in concert with people?

12. Paradigm #1
The smart city as a dashboard
- Awareness building
- Then back to policy and regulation

13. Air Quality apps
Plume Air Report

14. Paradigm #2
The smart city as
an intelligent infrastructure
- Mitigation (sensing + actuation)
- Opportunity for concerted action

15. Roboats flexible infrastructure
MIT Senseable City Lab

16. Paradigm #3
Cities of Things
- Things as social entities
- Cannot be controlled (like humans)
but can be governed
- Need for social contracts
(pacts, agreements)

17. Delivery pods
Starship technologies

18. Delivery pods
Starship technologies

19. Things as social entities
Data-enabled artefacts with
performing capabilities
Able to:
- Connect with existing networks of data
- Sense and collect real time data
- Act proactively
- Behave socially

20. Co-performance as
conceptualization
Artifacts have artificial body/minds capable of
performing social practices next to people.
Issues related to the appropriateness of an interplay
between human and artificial body/minds is
addressed in terms of changing divisions of roles and
responsibilities between human and artificial
performers
Kuijer, L., & Giaccardi, E. (2018). Co-performance: Conceptualizing the Role of Artificial
Agency in the Design of Everyday Life. Proc. CHI 2018. ACM Press: New York.

21. Artificial intelligence is about
appropriateness
What are we are good at?
- Uniquely human capabilities
- Uniquely artificial capabilities
- Historically situated and changing
Changing
context
Kuijer, L., & Giaccardi, E. (2018). Co-performance: Conceptualizing the Role of Artificial
Agency in the Design of Everyday Life. Proc. CHI 2018. ACM Press: New York.

22. Humans are good at judging…

23. Machines are good at optimizing…

24. Machines are good at generalizing…

25. Humans are good at improvising…

26. Principles of appropriateness
People and things have different capabilities
Distribution of tasks and judgments changes over
time through innovation
Tasks and judgments are delegated to the design
process and then to things (design is key!)
Kuijer, L., & Giaccardi, E. (2018). Co-performance: Conceptualizing the Role of Artificial
Agency in the Design of Everyday Life. Proc. CHI 2018. ACM Press: New York.

27. Towards more-than-human
partnerships
Take account of strengths and weaknesses
Think complementary action (not augmentation)
Think agreement (design ethics of distributed control
and shared ends)
Kuijer, L., & Giaccardi, E. (2018). Co-performance: Conceptualizing the Role of Artificial
Agency in the Design of Everyday Life. Proc. CHI 2018. ACM Press: New York.

28. Things as citizens as design inquiry
Things as social entities in the smart city
Writing civic futures together (what if)

29. Louise Hugen, 2018

32. Smart cities of today
Monitoring…
Quantifying…
Replacing…
Partially efficient,
fixed solutions
Smart cities of tomorrow
Including…
Complementing…
Redistributing…
Appropriate,
fluid solutions

33. Prototyping to understand consequences
AI Mayor

35. Open
questions
How much are we prone to accept and adapt to
things that behave out of our control?
How can we design for appropriate interplays
between humans and things?
What are the appropriate: Morphologies, Non-
Verbal Behaviors, Interaction Schemas for Things
as Citizens?

36. TaCIT
Things as Citizens Ideation Toolkit
A toolkit by M. L. Lupetti, for PACT project
Delft University of Technology

37. Ideation of a future scenario characterized
by provocative design concepts.
TaCIT
Things as Citizens Ideation Toolkit

38. TaCIT // M. L. Lupetti // Delft University of Technology
Aim of TaCIT
Identify different strategies
PREMISE
Identify different roles and values
Point out critical issues

39. New methods and tools
Envisioning workshop with TaCIT

40. New relationships
and interactions
Ideation and design
Sketches by Xueliang Li

41. Future scenarios
What are the dilemmas?

42. Dilemmas
Responsibility
private – public
Priority
human – system
Relationship
tool – social partner
Adaptation
human – thing
Delegation
partial - total

43. Dilemmas
Responsibility
private – public
Priority
human – system
Relationship
tool – social partner
Adaptation
human – thing
Delegation
partial - total

44. Let’s start!

45. Partnerships in Cities of Things