In May 2020 Students of the minor User Experience Design were involved in a Circulate student project. They were asked to engage a fictional community in balancing energy usage and production by visualising the (private and collective) usage and availability of energy.
AuthorDolinde van Beek
Ener-geyser
The Ener-geyser (or Schoonschip Geyser) is a data-driven (floating) fountain that visualises peak times: times when there is a high demand for energy on the communal energy smart-grid of an Amsterdam-based resource community called Schoonschip. By visualising energy levels in real-time, the Geyser helps the community make decisions about when to turn on appliances, in order to achieve their agreed sustainability goals.
Neighbours: Using serious games as a tool for community building & research
‘Neighbours’ is a game created to help community members and facilitators to explore the values within a community, with the ultimate goal of providing valuable insights for community regulations and the development of platforms to promote the production, sharing and management of their common resources.
Peak Shaving Time – shedding light on the social ramifications of smart technologies.
As part of the first workpackage of circulate we conducted several probes exploring the underlying economic and social values within resource communities, and how these values can be given a role in the development of digital platforms to aid these communities. Peak Shaving time is one such probe.
The City as a License. Implications of Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers for Urban Governance
After the smart city, will the blockchain city now follow? New technologies such as distributed ledgers may herald a new phase for the way digital media and big data are deployed to manage, use and shape public spaces and urban infrastructures. The City as a License is a perspective, which illuminates that development from the starting point of the city as a modern, open community with democratic and inclusive public spaces.
The City as a Licence (NL)
Volgt na de smart city nu de blockchain-stad? Nieuwe technologieën als distributed ledgers (decentraal beheerde databases) luiden mogelijk een nieuwe fase in voor de manier waarop digitale media en big data worden ingezet om publieke ruimtes en stedelijke infrastructuren te beheren, gebruiken en vorm te geven. The City as a License is een perspectief, dat die ontwikkeling belicht vanuit het vertrekpunt van de stad als een moderne, open gemeenschap met democratische en inclusieve publieke ruimtes.
Solar Trade, an energy dashboard and energy sharing marketplace promoting sustainable energy usage.
In May 2020 Students of the minor User Experience Design were involved in a Circulate student project. They were asked to engage a fictional community in balancing energy usage and production by visualising the (private and collective) usage and availability of energy.
The Blockchain and the Commons: Dilemmas in the Design of Local Platforms
In this paper for CHI20 we introduce a framework of three mechanisms and six ‘design dilemmas’ that can aid in balancing conflicting values in the design of such local platforms for commons-based resource management.
Charging the Commons
Charging the Commons is a 2-year project that investigates the design of digital platforms for resource communities. The project explores how a Situated-design approach can be employed to articulate the (social) values of resource communities. In addition, the project examines how these values can be translated into a design for the management of an urban commons.