培育数字化集成城市系统:以加拿大卡雷拉瓦尔公园为例

Fostering Urban Digital Integrated Systems:The Case of CarrèLaval,Canada

许多城市的政府部门应用数字技术来提高城市软硬件设施系统,以培育创业型社会,开创新型服务,提高市民生活质量,优化城市体验,提振地方经济。建设有传统基础设施的城市系统往往天然具有垄断性,而基于数据的数字平台可以促进多元利益相关方的参与。本文提出了混合型数字化集成城市系统的概念以及设计方法论,旨在将数字技术和实体设施融入到城市环境中。而后介绍了由麻省理工学院可感知城市实验室学生设计、笔者指导的设计项目,以加拿大拉瓦尔市卡雷拉瓦尔公园建设与改造项目为例,整合了数字技术并提出设计方案—6名学生在课程中每人提出一项设计方案,分别为"屏幕激活""无限记忆""论坛""智能桌""我的AR世界"和"饮食足迹",这些设计能够促进公园改造项目建设进程中的公众参与。以人为本、因地制宜地进行方案设计可以促进数字技术与城市系统更好地融合,并增加城市对本地新兴利益相关方的吸引力,为他们营造新的城市体验。

City governments are embracing digital technologies to improve hard and soft urban systems,so as to create and improve urban experiences,foster an entrepreneurial city,as well as devise novel services that can improve the livability of citizens and boost the local economy.Unlike traditional infrastructure and urban systems,which tend to be natural monopolies,data-driven digital platforms can engage multiple stakeholders simultaneously.This article,introducing the notion of hybrid urban digital integrated systems,proposes a methodology aims at the integration of digital and physical elements in urban environments.We based our discussion on the work developed by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Senseable City Lab,which focused on the integration of the digital-technology-based solutions in CarréLaval of the city of Laval,Canada.As the result of the workshop,six projects have been developed by students,namely,“Activating Surface,”“Infinite memories,”“Fora,”“iTable,”“MinecARft,”and“Foodprint.”These designs aim at promoting civic engagement as intrinsic elements of the re-appropriation and redesign of this severely underutilized site.The human-centered designs rooted in specific context will help digital technologies embedded in the city and increase the attractiveness of the city to local and new stakeholders.