Last Saturday 12 May, IAAC Head of Studies Mathilde Marengo lectured about “Innovation and Spaces: a New Relationship” in the framework of the activities of the Poblenou Open Day 2018 .

Mathilde Marengo discussed the potentials of integrating technologies into our urban environment and design practices to open a dialogue between citizens and urban planners, towards more inclusive design processes. Data driven decisions can allow us to move away from speculative solutions, allowing us to integrate real-time information and data, through top-down and bottom-up dialogue, into decision making processes and actuation.

The discussion revolved around 2 projects developed in IAAC: Poblejoc, an adaptive, productive, informative and informed urban game implemented in the Superilla Pilot, in the framework of the Active Public Space (APS) co-funded Creative Europe Project, and SuperBarrio, an open source gaming interface oriented towards boosting citizen engagement in design processes, developed in the framework of the Master in City & Technology, and also implemented in the Superilla Pilot.