Good City Life
Daniele Quercia
Social Dynamics group, Bell Labs in Cambridge (UK)
Politecnico di Milano - Polo di Como (Via Anzani 42, III floor)
March 10th, 2017
3.00 pm
Contacts:
Marco Brambilla
Research Line:
Data, web, and society
Social Dynamics group, Bell Labs in Cambridge (UK)
Politecnico di Milano - Polo di Como (Via Anzani 42, III floor)
March 10th, 2017
3.00 pm
Contacts:
Marco Brambilla
Research Line:
Data, web, and society
Abstract
On March 10 2017, Como City will host a seminar by Daniele Quercia on Good City Life. The seminar will be in the Como Campus of Politecnico di Milano.
Daniele Quercia is launching goodcitylife.org — a global group of like-minded people who are passionate about building technologies whose focus is not necessarily to create a smart city but to give a good life to city dwellers.
His presentation will contrast the corporate smart-city rhetoric about efficiency, predictability, and security with a different perspective on the cities, which I think is very inspiring and visionary.
The future of the city is, first and foremost, about people, and those people are increasingly networked. We will see how a creative use of network-generated data can tackle hitherto unanswered research questions. Can we rethink existing mapping tools [happy-maps]? Is it possible to capture smellscapes of entire cities and celebrate good odors [smelly-maps]? And soundscapes [chatty-maps]?
If you are interested, you can attend for free at the Polo di Como headquarters in Via Anzani 42, III floor, on March 10, 3pm.
Daniele Quercia is launching goodcitylife.org — a global group of like-minded people who are passionate about building technologies whose focus is not necessarily to create a smart city but to give a good life to city dwellers.
His presentation will contrast the corporate smart-city rhetoric about efficiency, predictability, and security with a different perspective on the cities, which I think is very inspiring and visionary.
The future of the city is, first and foremost, about people, and those people are increasingly networked. We will see how a creative use of network-generated data can tackle hitherto unanswered research questions. Can we rethink existing mapping tools [happy-maps]? Is it possible to capture smellscapes of entire cities and celebrate good odors [smelly-maps]? And soundscapes [chatty-maps]?
If you are interested, you can attend for free at the Polo di Como headquarters in Via Anzani 42, III floor, on March 10, 3pm.
Short Bio
Daniele Quercia leads the Social Dynamics group at Bell Labs in Cambridge (UK). He has been named one of Fortune magazine’s 2014 Data All-Stars, and spoke about “happy maps” at TED. His research has been focusing in the area of urban informatics and received best paper awards from Ubicomp 2014 and from ICWSM 2015, and an honourable mention from ICWSM 2013. He was Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs, a Horizon senior researcher at the University of Cambridge, and Postdoctoral Associate at the department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. He received his PhD from UC London. His thesis was sponsored by Microsoft Research and was nominated for BCS Best British PhD dissertation in Computer Science.
