Cities as open living labs. Barcelona 2020 is a vision to convert the city in a Future Internet-based open living lab

1. What’s next?
Future Internet, Smart Cities,
Living Labs and beyond
Artur Serra
Deputy director i2cat
“Connected Smart Cities Network and
Living Labs”.
Brussels, May 22-23st 2012

2. Future Internet

3. We have it!

5. Smart City

6. We have it!
2010
2011
iCity
2012 Open-DAI
Barcelona participates in 6 from 15 European projects in
the area of Smart Cities.

7. A new City Hall’s Smart City strategy
Urban
Planning ICT
Environment

8. New City Hall “mantra” on Smart Cities
Antoni Vives, Head of Vicente Guallart,
Urban Planning, ICT and Chief Architect of
Environment. Barcelona Barcelona
“ A city of self-sufficient neighborhoods ,
energetically sustainables and hyper-connected...
Many slow cities in the smart city”

9. A new private-public partnership

12. Barcelona Mobile World Capital
(2012-2018)

16. Still something missing:
The citizen!.

17. Citilab, a first experiment

18. Seniorlab, Musiclab, Laborlab…
Some lessons learned:
1. Seniors is a new group of age. Ageing society doesn’t mean a
sick society. Innovation is not the monopoly of youngers.
1. “Invent your job”, not “looking for a job”. Lesson from Southern
Europe job market. Need radical change in employment policies.
2. Videogames, music, culture…creates jobs. Need of an urgent
change in educational curricula.

19. A new opportunity in the City of Barcelona
Jaume Ciurana, head of the Inés Garriga, ICUB director
new area of Culture, Knowledge,
of Creativity and Innovation
Creativity, and Innovation
“Culture” “Knowledge”
Creativity Innovation

20. CINO, The Municipal Chief Innovation
Officer.

21. The “Barcelona Laboratori Cultural” project
a) A Smart City, a Mobile City, needs citizens.
A Creative and Innovation City can provide it.
b) Cultural activities are alive and arrives to every
district, every neigborhood, every citizen. (at least
in Barcelona)
c) A Barcelona Cultural Laboratory as the open living
lab of the city. An opportunity to put together
Future Internet, Smart Cities and Living Labs in a
Smart Specialization strategy.

22. Barcelona 2020:
Future Living Labs as a full city or region.
City and regions as Next Generation Living
Labs.

23. Hacking Barcelona!
First Open and Distributed
Citizen Hackathon.
Nov. 24-25, 2012

24. Thanks!
artur.serra@i2cat.net