Smart Culture For Smart Cities...SYNOPSIS OF MODULE 12 •Without the right (= Smart) Culture there will be no Smart Cities! •A Smart City must address all facets of the Smart Culture

SMART CULTURE FOR SMART

CITIESP H I L A N D R E W S

I N T E R N AT I O N A L I N N OVAT I O N C E N T E R S

SYNOPSIS OF MODULE 12

•Without the right (= Smart) Culture there

will be no Smart Cities!

•A Smart City must address all facets of the

Smart Culture

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SOME KEY POINTS

• Culture is more than behaviors, customs, values & beliefs, heritage,

customs, rituals, ceremonies… art and aesthetics

• Culture is also influenced by the types of governance and institutions

serving society, religion, food, economics, architecture … and family

structure that a country’s citizens espouse and use. And now by the

types of technologies that embrace and advocate

• Yes, there is such a thing as Digital Culture or eCulture


DIGITAL CULTURE IS:

• The manifested behaviors and attitudes of the communication

technologies (incl. the internet, all types of networks, social media,

etc.), personalized technologies, smart devices, digital images,

interconnected databases … and sensors used in everyday life and

work. Digital Culture is part of an ever-involving culture that

follows the 19th Century’s Print Culture, and the 20th Century’s

Electronic Broadcast Culture (incl. telegraph, radio, and TV).


EXAMPLE: HAMBURG’S DIGITAL CULTURE’S MAIN THRUST IN SOCIETY IS THIS PROMISE:

“All citizens are to have digital access to

our city‘s cultural heritage”



WHAT HAMBURG’S MINISTRY OF CULTURE PROMISES:

• Supporting all cultural institutions

• Developing and harnessing digital resources to enter the digital

world

• Networking in digitization to achieve more relevance and impact

• Supplementing Hamburg‘s concepts for improving (Social)

Integration and (Smart) Education

• Creating barrier-free services


HAMBURG’S ECULTURE WILL ADDRESS ALL THESE:

• Museums

• • Theatres

• • Art

• • Urban Heritage Conservation

• • Music

• • Libraries

• • Creative Industries

• • State Archive

• • Moving Images


KEY REALIZATIONS

• New solutions are required to make digital cultural content

accessible with reasonable effort

• Only 10% of the city’s and European Culture (approximately 300

million objects) are currently digitized. The other 90% has to be

digitized the next few years

• Countries will have to create/develop Knowledge Warehouses

where that information can be stored, shared and maintained


APPROACH TO REINFORCE AND ENHANCE THE NEW CULTURE


Inform Experience Share ConnectAdvance

Maintain

T H E D I G I T A L C U L T U R E M U S T S U P P O R T T H E D I G I T A L C I T I Z E N


MOREOVER, ONE MUST ADDRESS THE BLENDED CULTURE OF ALL THESE:

– Lean and Agile Culture

– Green and Sustainable Culture

– Customer-Centric (People) Culture

– Collaboration Culture

– Innovation/Creative Culture

– Social Inclusion Culture

– Conscious Culture … and more


TWO EXAMPLES


HOWEVER, THE HAMBURG APPROACH IS INCOMPLETE. HERE IS WHY:

• It does NOT address the importance of Art, Art Districts, and

Architecture

• It does NOT address the importance of Equitable, Green,

Sustainable, and Resilient Cities

• It does NOT address the Doctrines and principles of Smart Cities

Designs


S I N G A P O R E G O T I T R I G H T !


V A N C O U V E R G O T I T R I G H T


W E A L L N E E D E Q U I T A B L E ,

G R E E N , S U S T A I N A B L E

A N D R E S I L I E N T

C I T I E S




Some Cities already have

plans to get to this type

of Smart City in the 21st

Century!


Some Smart Cities have already started


SMART CITY DOCTRINES

• Doctrine 1: Consider urban life before urban place; consider urban place before technology

• Doctrine 2: People should be at the center of all planning. Citizens First.

– Frictionless experience (within limits). Creative Destruction will not please everyone

– Technology should follow/support the experience

• Doctrine 3: Citizen and Community Involvement are essential in co-visioning, co-inventing and co-creating

the future

– The future belongs to everyone … and everyone should have a voice (not by simple votes, but by active participation in real

time)

• Doctrine 4: Apply inclusivity

• All segments of society must move into the future in lockstep mode. Another way of saying this is: Leave no one

behind

– Cannot afford to increase the gap between haves and have-nots



• Doctrine 5: Plan for long-term growth, renewal and transformation

• Doctrine 6: Be flexible and modify your vision and model as needed

– The avalanche of new technologies will increase in speed and continue forever, renting current models inadequate or

obsolete

– Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability, over an extended timeframe

– No permanent solutions for temporary problems

• Doctrine 7: Apply Creative Destruction approaches

– It requires courage and determination

– Smart Cities is about creating a new civilization and way of life. Bold decisions must be made, even if some of them are

unpopular. Example: Smart Education and Smart Government obsolete current systems in place

– Creative Destruction must be augmented with Transformation Management



• Doctrine 8: Dare to experiment!

– It’s OK to make mistakes --- it’s uncharted territory. Some “trial and error” is necessary. It’s OK to fail. No need to get excited

about mistakes

– Promote innovative and non-conventional solutions

• Doctrine 9: Think and apply holistic solutions!

– Holistic view for wholesome living

– It’s a mutual (and holistic) world: introduce bottom-up and top-down Initiatives

• Doctrine 10: Apply the sustainability, scalability and resilience principles

– They are the foundation for the new Smart Solutions and Initiatives

– Demonstrate that the sustainability, scalability and resilience are valid over an extended timeframe



• Doctrine 11: Draw nature closer to people

– Consider biophilic, aeroponic, hydroponic and other designs that bring nature closer to people, but also integrate urban and rural

environments in the city

• Doctrine 12: Establish new relationships and interactions with the business community

– Form powerful Business and Innovation Ecosystems

– Form/forge more PPPs (Public-Private Partnerships)

• Doctrine 13: Make Innovation the “engine” of the new society/civilization

– Form new Innovation Hubs / Solution Labs that help all segments of society (not just entrepreneurs and startup companies

– Encourage, promote, cultivate and advance the Innovation Culture



• Doctrine 14: Advance Urban Planning and Economic Development Smart Programs and Initiatives

– Relieve building density with variety and add green boundaries

– Activate spaces for greater safety

– Develop affordable, mixed-use (self-contained) neighborhoods

– Make public spaces work harder (make them to serve multiple uses and users)

– Take advantage of the new Autonomous Vehicles and the new options that they offer


SMART CITIES PRINCIPLES

• Well-Being (QoL, Great Health, Happiness, Livability, Prosperity, Growth, etc.)

• Equity (Smart Cities are an act of social justice)

• Inclusivity (catering to all segments of society)

• Involvement (promoting citizen engagement and participation ➔ new services)

• Efficiency

• Foresight

• Resiliency/Sustainability

• Transparency

• Creativity/Innovation

• User Friendly Technologies (Accessibility is critical to Smart Culture)


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