Entry #96

Adaptive City of Co-Creation

Yuxin Ji

Weijie Zong

An augmented reality app for smartphones that allows citizens to customize urban space according to their individual, or collective, desires. Adds a layer of digital plasticity to the city landscape, realizing cities that can continously adapt to rapid societal changes and increasing diversity of lifestyles/needs.

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• Metadata:
• • The degree to which advanced technologies (including IT) are used
    3  (Low-tech) 1 - 2 - 3 (High-tech)
• • Site-specificness: The degree to which the idea targets a specific locale
    1  (Site-agnostic/universal) 1 - 2 - 3 (Site-specific)
• • Degree of commercial potential
    3  (Strictly for public good) 1 - 2 - 3 (May profit some parties involved)
• • Time scale of citizen-led changes to cities enabled by the idea
    2  (Short-term change) 1 - 2 - 3 (Long-term change)
• • Geographic scale of citizen-led changes to cities enabled by the idea
    3  (Small-scale change) 1 - 2 - 3 (Large-scale change)
• • Hurdles toward participation, from a citizen’s perspective
    1  (Anyone can participate) 1 - 2 - 3 (Requires expertise, time, money, etc.)