The Atlas for the design of future e-cities (deliverable D01)

The Atlas for the design of future e-cities (Atlas from now on) is a compilation of Urban Cyber-Physical Devices (UCPDs), presented as a set of records with a unified representation, meant to be used as an easy to consult state of the art document. It collects, labels, relates and critiques a corpus of heterogeneous UCPDs case study projects deployed in public space around the world, which reflects the multidisciplinarity of the research team. Diving into aspects of devices’ development, implementation and public space transformations, the Atlas is designed with a chronological coded structure, receptive to new additions.

 

The scientific importance of this Atlas is trifold: (i) for the Lab4U&Spaces Research Project the lessons learned from the Atlas fed the Guidelines for the design of a new generation of interactive urban space products (D02), which integrates all the project’s research lines; (ii) for the scientific community it is an updated state of the art in the subject, extending related work; and (iii) for the non-experts it’s a theoretical and monographic introduction to the subject, with an ample set of fully illustrated applied cases.

As the first deliverable (D01) of Research Line 1 (RL1) the Atlas is structured in such a way to respond to the following tasks of Activities 1 and 2:

• A1T1: “Mapping relationships between public space, digital interfaces and community”;

• A1T2: “Critical review on the presence of interactive technological systems”;

• A2T1 “Analytical survey on emerging concepts and products designed for individual sensing, interaction, connectivity and access to data”;

• A2T2: “Overview and analysis of sensors and interactive technologies”.