The Nordic Digital City – Where UX meets urbanism

Together with the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and DOGA, we held a breakfast seminar on how digital technologies shape the planning and design of cities, and how a Nordic approach differs from the Silicon Valley vision of the smart city. The event was sold out.

The starting point was that most smart city initiatives were led by technology and policy. The seminar asked what happens when these trends become citizen-facing products, interfaces and buildings, and which skills are needed to make digital urban societies inclusive, user-centred and understandable.

Dan Hill, head of Arup Digital Studio, philosopher and urbanist Rikke Gram-Hansen, formerly of Copenhagen Solutions Lab, and Johan Høgåsen-Hallesby, CTO of Urban Infrastructure Partner, which runs the city bike systems in Oslo and Bergen, gave short talks. Einar Sneve Martinussen, associate professor of interaction design at AHO, moderated the roundtable that followed.

Speakers

• Dan Hill, Designer, urbanist and writer; Head of Arup Digital Studio
• Rikke Gram-Hansen, Philosopher and urbanist, formerly Copenhagen Solutions Lab
• Johan Høgåsen-Hallesby, CTO, Urban Infrastructure Partner (city bikes in Oslo and Bergen)
• Einar Sneve Martinussen, Associate Professor of Interaction Design, AHO (moderator)

The original event page is on meetup.com.