Living in a Smart City: Reflections on the future

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SAIC Mentions the class in campus newsletter:Happening at SAIC the Week of 5/16/11

AIADO faculty member George Aye and students in his class “Living in a Smart City” were featured online in Fast Company magazine Friday (5/6), as Aye and his class were the recipients of a $10,000 “Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Award” from IBM. “What if the smartest solutions to urban problems don’t necessarily lie in computer science departments?” asks writer Greg Lindsay, who continues, “Shouldn’t they be teaching this stuff in architecture and planning departments as well? They are—at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago this semester. The class is the brainchild of George Aye, a professor of design at SAIC, a former IDEO consultant, and the founder of his own Greater Good Studio.” The article goes on to include quotes from SAIC students Karl Williamson, Josiah Ball, and Kristen Campbell Hansen.

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Welcome to the class blog for the "Living in a Smart City class" at the AIADO department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our premise:
When a city can gather data on every aspect of it's citizens activities, what should we do with it? What products, services and environments should we develop?

Many private and public sector organisations are rushing us towards a future state where every cup of coffee, cell phone, taxi, bus, street and building will be self-aware and communicating with us and each other. Rather than asking when is this future coming, I'd like to ask what will we do once it's here.

This class is taught by George Aye and with IBM's Director or Citizenship of Technology, John Tolva. It runs Spring semester 2011 and it's built on the model of small, problem-centric multi-disciplinary teams of students from Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects at graduate and undergraduate levels.

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