This document discusses the potential for smart environments and Internet of Things technologies to enable new forms of storytelling and experiential design. It explores how sensors and data collection could enhance user experiences in public spaces. The document also notes challenges around data privacy and control that will need to be addressed for widespread adoption of connected technologies in cities and environments. Overall, it frames the Internet of Things as an opportunity to restore relational experiences and poetic storytelling through interactive and responsive physical spaces.

1. Storytelling Engines
for Smart Environments
A conversation on the experiential, narrative and poetic potentials of the Internet
of Things
Jonathan Bélisle Vincent Routhier Meg Rabbit Lance Weiler
Tweet us live questions/comments to @wuxia #sensorage

2. Lance Weiler - Body Mind Change (David Cronenberg) - bodymindchange.ca

3. Lance Weiler - Sherlock Holmes ioT - sherlock.digitalstorytellinglab.com

4. Lance Weiler - Lyka’s Adventure - http://www.lykasadventure.com/

5. Meg Rabbit - megrabbit.com

6. Meg Rabbit - LUMO projector - lumoplay.com

7. Meg Rabbit - LUMO projector - lumoplay.com

8. Vincent Routhier (SAGA) - wuxia.ca

9. Vincent Routhier (SAGA) - iotheatre platform - iotheatre.co

10. Vincent Routhier (SAGA) - Soundscapr platform - jardins-symphoniques.com

11. IFTF - 2009 Report - Map of the Programmable World

12. Herman Miller - 2008 Report / The Future of Programmable Environments

13. Diagram by Bill Chamberlin

14. The Information Age moved us into a Connected Economy but
didn’t fully restored the relational Poetry it had conceiled.

15. Herman Miller - 2008 Report / The Future of Programmable Environments

20. The dialogical imagination*
Humans are made to live together. Humans are made to talk to each
other. Humans are made to look at each other.
To exchange with the others around us is natural and it gives birth to
many emotions.
*Mikhail Bakhtin

21. We can now fully awake the Poetic Potential of the Internet of things.
The physical world is the new platform (again).

22. immersivedisplay.co.uk

23. Christopher Walken with a Neuronal Headband in the Film “Brainstorm” - 1983

24. Ariel Garten with a Functional Muse Neuronal Headband - 2015

25. What could happen if we could harness emerging technologies & incorporate
sensors like wearables linked to an individual citizen’s physical, biometric or mood-
based data ?
These sensors, in combination with physical interactions would provide real-time
information offering immediate benefits to tourists, citizens businesses, & cities
alike ?

26. RFID tag various formats

27. Disney's $1 Billion Bet on a Magical Wristband

29. Epson Moverio Lens

30. Facebook Thalmic Labs

31. From domotics, to immotics
to emotics
What is the true purpose of the ioT and Affective Computing movement ?

32. Ex Machina - Moulin à images - Massive Architectural Projection

33. Steven Spielberg - Minority Report

34. Om Signal - Biometric T-Shirt

35. Om Signal - Biometric T-Shirt

36. Antycip Immersion Caves

37. Banff Center - Cosm Immersion Caves

38. An overwhelming range
of possibilities
How are emerging technologies changing the way we see the world ?
As optimists, we’d point to imaginative artist practices and perceptual
hacks. As pessimists, we’d call attention to overarching (often
invisible) systems of control. As realists, we’ve tried to split the
difference.

39. Spike Jonze - Her

40. iCinema

41. Dan Saffer - Disciplines of Experience Design

43. Komatsu Simulation Labs

44. Google - Gestural Signatures for Magic Leap

45. How smart environments & immersive story frameworks can help a
person or a group relates to an experience, to what they feel ?

46. Steven Spielberg - Minority Report

47. If a storytelling engine could be used to give a city a brand new personality what would be
the functional elements of that engine ?

48. Panopticon
A prison architecture optimized for the one-way surveillance of its occupants.
Jeremy Bentham

49. Nadav Savio - HCI Map

50. Mad Mapper

51. Module8

52. The Sensor Age
The reunion of Techne and Noetics

53. Musion Holograms

54. Dubai - Museum of the Future

55. Wired Cities
&
Connected Citizens ?
Does this means the same as Narrative Cities and Wise Citizens ?

58. University of Kentucky - Immersion Labs

59. Somewhere in an airport, a vending machine dispenses a free cup
of coffee when it sees someone yawn. Two hundred astonished
people get a hot drink - and a quarter million more watch the
perky video documenting the event online.
Golan Levin about Douwe Egberts coffee “Bye Bye Red Eye” advertisement

60. SparkFun Sensors Kit

61. As artists have always done, they concoct poetry and magic, transport us to
different realms of experience and imagination, remind us about what is really
worth living for, and perhaps, just a little, alleviate the uncertainty of the moment.
Take a seat / Embrace

63. Samsung Smarthings Home Automation Hub

64. I fear the day that technology will surpass our
human interaction.
The world will have a generation of idiots.
Albert Einstein

67. The Internet of Things is
generally invisible.
Paul Salama, senior planner at WXY
an urban design, planning and architectural practice based in New York City

68. Nod Ring

69. Finding the creative potential
and poetry in systems.

71. Calm Computing
Imagine interactions between the technology and its user designed to occur in the user’s
periphery rather than constantly at the center of attention.
Imagine using calm technology, paired with ubiquitous computing as a way to minimize the
perceptible invasiveness of computers in everyday life.
Mark Weiser

72. Bjork - 2015

73. What smart environments and programmable spaces needs to enable
to allow customers to build intimacy with a brand ?

74. Dangerous futures
We may work to predict the cultural consequences of new technologies warning us of
dangerous futures, or speculating about interesting ones. We might author whimsical,
provocative, and illogical tools that liberate minds, connect hearts, creatively invert
authority, and empower skeptical thought.
Using artistic techniques like defamiliarization, we may awaken others from their
slumber to see common things in an unfamiliar way, in order to enhance perception of
the familiar. Employing the creative potential of visualization, we can delineate the
unseen forces that shape our lives, in order to reveal the invisible.
Golan Levin - Holo Magazine

75. "I can't honestly think of a field where this won't have some effect," says Jason
Kelly Johnson, cofounder and design partner at Future Cities Lab, an
experimental design studio, workshop and architectural think tank in San
Francisco. "In architecture, specifically, it will in fact shape public space; it will
intersect in a visible and tangible way."
The impacts of the Internet of Things on our cities don't begin and end with
urban buildings — everything from the morning commute to public parks are
incorporating Internet of Things technologies.
Time will tell

76. How we learned to love
Big Brother
Can we prepare a playful response to ubiquitous surveillance ?
kickstarter.com/projects/holo/holo-magazine

77. The physical security of the data within the connected city is probably the most
significant roadblock to adoption. It will require significant planning, which
quite frankly hasn’t happened yet to the degree that it needs to.
Roadblock to adoption ?

78. TOOLS FOR THE PROGRAMMABLE DESIGN MEDIUM
• A communication network for things
• Easy connectivity for things to the network
• Simple communication by people with things
• Intuitive rules for interacting with the space
• Immediacy of results
• Means to link interdependent devices and save preferred settings for “scene control”
• “Edit Undo” recovery from mistakes
• Storage for data from the environment
• Analysis tools to understand the data
• A standard structural interface that is part of the architecture and infrastructure
of the interior space
• Simple mechanical attachment for physical objects to the structural interface,
requiring only common hand tools
Convia - Herman Miller

79. Jonathan Bélisle Vincent Routhier Meg Rabbit Lance Weiler
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