This 3D printed vertical garden produces its own food
The project is a research co-funded by the EU commission, it is co-designed with children from schools in Porto in Portugal and it will be moved to these schools courtyards after the end of the Smart City Exhibition.
Agorythm by Onionlab | Immersive lights that show the invisible urban data
The Congress access tunnel is an immersive audiovisual experience created by Onion Lab. Agorythm is a poetic journey to the heart of a city, country or territory, thanks to the collection of real data from the urban core, turning them into a kinetic simulation of its reality environmental in real time.
ThoughtLab | Building a Future-Ready City
ThoughtLab has collaborated with a global coalition of business, government, and academic leaders to provide city decision-makers with an evidence-based roadmap. This research initiative explores how 200 cities use innovation, partnerships, and other drivers of change to build their future. It also examines the changing expectations and behaviors of 2,000 citizens in 20 cities, and how these citizens view the efforts of their urban leaders.
How do we teach the city?
When we talk about education and cities, we normally think about how municipalities can facilitate a higher access and quality of the learning processes. But what if we looked at this topic the other way around? How could better education on how cities work and their complexity, bring future generations of students and citizens closer to understanding the true complexity of cities, their challenges, and opportunities? In an increasingly challenging future, adequately teaching the city can direct towards better prospects.
Diego Fernández, Buenos Aires | The Self-Sovereign Digital City
The Secretary of Innovation and Digital Transformation of Buenos Aires City Government, Diego Fernández, shares all the details of QuarkID, the self-sovereign digital identity protocol anchored on blockchain technology that seeks to function as public infrastructure and give people back the control over their information, ensuring privacy.
Enabling Safer Cities through Digital Infrastructure
The use of data collected by new technologies for the benefit of cities is increasingly discussed. This data can even understand behaviors, and detect suspicious activities and violence, but are citizens still reluctant? How do manage data, security, and privacy? What are the efforts to include these technologies in the urban sphere gaining the trust of citizens? This session will explore what data is capable of, while mitigating the concerns about data privacy and transparency.
Mitigating Energy Poverty through Affordable Cities
Europe is facing an unprecedented energy crisis that requires an emergency response to protect households from energy poverty and save small businesses from closing. Apart from saving energy at home, more measures are needed at a local and national level to survive this winter and speed up the process into a sustainable and secured energy system. Which actions can be done to mitigate energy poverty and accelerate the energy transition?
Communities Achieving a Net-Zero World
What are cities doing towards the SDGs and carbon neutrality? Communities are key players as they are the first in line when it comes to sustainable actions. Education, knowledge, awareness towards emissions and resilience are some of the ways citizens engage to become net-zero.
Francesca Cesa, Boeri Architetti | Green Obsession
Green Obsession proposes an alternative path to take, a paradigm shift to counter the environmental crisis from the perspective of ecological transition Green Obsession reveals the processes and complexity involved in the search for a new type of urbanism and proposes an alternative path to take, a paradigm shift to counter the environmental crisis from the perspective of ecological transition.
Vitaliy Klitschko | Building a Future-Ready Kyiv
The main problem of the decade issues how cities will cope with fast-changing factors. It should be created in a liveable, inclusive, and competitive frame that adapts to any unexpected future challenges. In the case of Kyiv, just recovering from the pandemic, the city is facing an even larger crisis: a fight for survival. In this session, we will discover Kyiv’s experience and outline how future-ready digital technologies can help cities stay resilient even in front of the toughest challenges, during a war.