New technologies allow citizens to take up new roles in helping to develop and manage urban infrastructures, such as energy, waste and mobility systems. Through this process, a smart city can be developed as a commons. But what are the snags? What can digital platforms do, and how can municipalities position themselves? 

Denis Roio, better known as Jaromil, builds tools for modern citizen activists. How do these instruments work? For whom? And, most importantly, how can we use it in Eindhoven? During this evening, Jaromil will talk about the European project D-Cent, a collection of online instruments facilitating new forms of urban democracy.

How do digital technologies and the involvement of Eindhoven citizens relate to each other? In this Meet Up in collaboration with Architectuurcentrum Eindhoven: how can the smart city provide useful information for spatial designers?

During the Dutch Design Week, the DATAstudio will go looking for how we can make subjects without data visible in the digital map together with officials, designers, data experts and ordinary citizens. 

Friday 8 July the fourth edition of the Thingscon Salon will take place in Eindhoven, Strijp-S. This edition – organised in close partnership with VPRO Medialab – touches the theme of the role of the design of our connected world in relation to the smart society. Klaas Kuitenbrouwer of The State of Eindhoven participates in the Salon with a presentation on the Datastudio. 

Anab Jain – designer, cofounder of Superflux and member of the advisory board of The State of Eindhoven – elaborates during a lecture for the IABR2016 on how technology in the built environment can make cities more socially inclusive.  

For the symposium Design & The City, Het Nieuwe Instituut organizes a round table for invited experts to critically discuss knowledge, practice and strategies on how to engage less media savvy groups with the emergence of a smart society.