092R_The city as an urban interaction design platform (book chapter summary)

Are you interested in the connection between interaction design and the city? Our summary today works with the book chapter titled The city as an urban interaction design platform from 2014 by Martin Brynskov, and the book’s title is Urban Interaction Design: Towards City Making.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how interaction design can be part of cities because we will talk about it in detail with the next interviewee, Professor Jeni Paay, in episode 093. This chapter introduces the connection, issues and concerns about urban interaction design. As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects: Cities are complex systems with interconnected layers and actors interacting with each other. Urban interaction design can improve those interactions and citizen engagement with tools, services and products, but these should always remain the means to achieving better participation, and be accessible and usable for the people. Today and in the coming future, urban interaction design has the opportunity to impact the aspirations of civic engagement and make it a more profound, direct, effective and diverse experience of engaging in public issues. You can find the book and chapter through this link. You can find the transcripts through this link. What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available. I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in. Music by Lesfm from Pixabay