Salon The Hague: responsible onboarding public digital ecosystems

Join us for the first ThingsCon Salon in The Hague, organized in close partnership with the Smart City Team of The Hague municipality. The theme is smart cities and the governance of digital public infrastructure.

In The Hague’s Living Lab in Scheveningen, a large urban area will be equipped with smart city hubs.
The process for admission of actors, ideas, use cases, and sensors is now under development.
The Hague wants to open-source and open access, to scale the Living Lab to the rest of the city, the region, and (eventually) the world, voicing the voiceless by introducing new forms of democracy based on transparent data, where anyone and anything can contribute.

Tooling will be developed later this year, but what are the requirements? Both from a governance perspective, public interest, as from stimulating open creative development.

PROGRAM
The goal is to facilitate a lively discussion. We will invite up to four speakers to share insights from different perspectives like participatory design, IoT design, and making, data, ethics. Living Lab Scheveningen will kick-off with a short overview of the project.

In the second part, we will facilitate the discussion. We invite both speakers as attendees to post their statements and/or questions. We intend to wrap-up with a couple of specific guidelines that can be used in the hackathon in November to build the tools.

SPEAKERS

• Jeroen Barendse, partner at RNDR. RNDR is a collective of designers, coders, and programmers that uses code and technology to create designs.
• Tessa Steenkamp, works as an Experience Designer at UNSense, daughter company of architecture firm UNStudio. UNSense is a research and design company, using technology as a tool for humanising the built environment.
• Berit Piepgras, works as a policy advisor for the municipality of The Hague. As a member of the team Haags Samenspel, she aims at improving the quality of citizen engagement. Democratization processes, learning-by-doing and a city-wide approach are key in the team’s way of working.
• Naomi Schiphorst works on the design and development of a Smart City Infrastructure for the municipality of The Hague. In this Living Lab Scheveningen the city is exploring how to develop an open eco-system for co-creation of new services and applications by actually building it. She will introduce the Living Lab Scheveningen.
• Gerd Kortuem, is a Professor and director of the Knowledge and Intelligence Design Lab at the Industrial Design Engineering Faculty at TU Delft, and principle investigator at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions.
  Gerd is moderator of the session

More speakers to be announced soon. Details on thingscon.org

PARTICIPATE
We will organize a session on location at Pier Scheveningen for a maximum of 40 people. We invite all participants to pose questions in advance. We also will have a livestream via https://thingscon.org/events/upcoming-event/salon-the-hague/
So if you can’t make it in person, please join us there!

It speaks for itself that this is all depending on the latest situation of the COVID-rules, and if necessary, the event might be an online event.