Projects of City Interaction lab
City-to-city learning: from data to city, from city to data
Project 1: Citizen science and city
We are currently working together with our partners on analysis of citizen science data from around the globe. If you are happy, join us, fork repository
https://github.com/cityinteractionlab/
And explore the open data from iNaturalist and citizen science platforms like SciStarter
Project is organised thanks to Correlaid Germany and is lead by CorrelAid France (L.Bauer) together with UCL
Project 2: Researchers mobility
Project on Researchers mobility with Openhumans and CRI:
Have a look at related publications https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/australia-nz/survey-covid-19-will-have-huge-impact-researcher-mobility-and
The webpage of participative project https://www.openhumans.org/activity/mobility-data-of-researchers/
Project 3: Vera in the city
How to design City offline sensors? So that privacy is preserved and that people are able to share some properties of the city are shared? The project is called "Vera in the city". The draft of the project is available on github https://github.com/cityinteractionlab/verainthecity and https://github.com/Liyubov/verainthecity
Project 4: Educational courses
We are open to suggest educational and art courses around the topic of the city. Example of the course on openstreetmaps (still in progress): https://github.com/cityinteractionlab/openstreetmaps_osmnx_workshop
We are happy to announce new projects coming with Romania First Tech Challenge and Correlaid Germany
Project 5: Bikes in the city
What are sustainable bike systems look like? How should we design them so that more people can use shared bike systems? https://github.com/Liyubov/bike-sharing
Project 6: Virtual city
What are future cities, what can we call sustainable and smart cities? Can we draw or visually present them? The project is meant to be think-tank and is open for discussions every month.
Project 7: Augmented city inside forest
Using fast-style-transfer neural networks techniques we generate and transfer images from cities, using images from forest and other green and blue areas. The project was largely inspired by BeForest project.
The project is one of the projects of City Interaction lab in Paris
https://medium.com/@liubovbauer/style-transfer-for-augmented-city-21b1e36cc40b
We also are working on the github repository (to be opened very soon).
Project 8: Generative space syntax
After seminal work by B.Hillier et al. on space syntax, still many open questions remain:
How can we change the space syntax of streets with planting more trees?
Can we visit some cities during lock down through experiencing streets topology and space syntax?
Can we actually derive the real space syntax rule from the observation (empirical data), similar to what has been done by Chomsky to language with generative grammar? Or are there any universal rules of space syntax?
What is "Vera in the city"?
October 25th 2020 Vera in the city project update:
during epidemics city interactions are changing and are evolving, we decided to design offline city sensors for measure and collect average city feedback, as if it would be people coming to you on the street and discussing.
Open subscription to online workshop
https://iclei.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a3a47048051ae2f2024de7834&id=5c73ca7f85&e=44a7d135c4November 9th 2020 Vera in the city project update
Open discussions with Chetan Kumar (CRI) and Maastricht University discussion group on building offline city sensors.
Check more here for events.Documentation of the city and city main perspectives.
When we live in the city, we evolve with the city. We help city to change, when we are adding even some small elements, such as some words on a banch in the park, some small graffity in the entrance of the house. This process was documented for USSR from 1989 till 1995. The original of the book is shown in atelier.
Questions?
Contact verainthecity@yahoo.com to get more information on the project