MoSaIC: More-than-human sustainable and inclusive smart cities

目前，全球有一半人口（35亿人）居住在城市，预计到2050年，全球68%的人口将居住在城市地区。由于土地利用的变化，城市化的增加正在导致世界范围内生物多样性的下降。与此同时，数字技术正在改变我们的城市。诸如实时公交信息、智能垃圾箱、智能停车和智能街道照明等创新通常被称为智能城市，并被乐观地承诺为社会和环境的好东西。但是，这些干预措施通常没有考虑到城市中的人类和非人类居民（如植物、动物、微生物以及传感器）在城市空间中相互关联和相互依存的方式。马赛克：超越人类的可持续和包容性智慧城市奖学金将研究更具包容性、可持续性和繁荣的智慧城市的设计。它将通过探索网络传感器、人工智能和数据可视化方法等数字技术如何帮助我们为所有居民（包括人类和其他物种）规划和设计智慧城市来实现这一目标。这项研究将在三个活生生的实验室中进行，这些实验室是在公私伙伴关系中共同创造研究和创新的现实世界的测试平台。这些活动将在三种类型的场地上进行：城市社区花园、建筑和水道。在这些生活实验室中，我们将共同设计新的原型，展示数字技术如何在实践和政策上实现可持续的、超越人类的智慧城市。我们将采用包容性和创造性的共同设计方法，与主要的社区、商业和政策合作伙伴密切合作，将人类和非人类居民的观点纳入其中。我们将从研究中产生以下成果：在智慧城市中分散人类的新方法，新的数字和数据可视化原型，新的艺术品和书籍，开源工具包和数据集，为工业，政策和社区设计超越人类的智慧城市的实用指南，为公众举办跨学科研讨会和跨部门研讨会。我们还将开展公众参与和传播活动，包括艺术委员会和展览，这将有助于向更广泛的公众传递一个转型议程，并产生大规模的影响。

Half of humanity - 3.5 billion people - lives in cities today and 68% of the world's population is projected to live in urban areas by 2050. This increase in urbanisation is contributing to biodiversity decline worldwide due to changing land use. At the same time, digital technologies are changing our cities. Innovations such as real-time bus information, smart rubbish bins, smart parking, and smart street lighting are often referred to as the smart city, and optimistically promised as a social and environmental good. But these interventions generally fail to take into account the ways in which human and non-human inhabitants of cities (such as plants, animals, micro-organisms, as well as sensors) are inter-related and interdependent in urban space. The MoSaIC: More-than-Human Sustainable and Inclusive Smart Cities fellowship will investigate the design of more inclusive, sustainable and flourishing smart cities. It will do this by exploring how digital technologies such as networked sensors, AI, and data visualisation approaches can help us plan and design smart cities for all their inhabitants - human as well as other species. The research will be undertaken in three living labs, which are real world testbeds for co-creating research and innovation in public-private-people partnerships. These will take place in three types of site: urban community gardens, buildings, and waterways. In these living labs we will co-design new prototypes that demonstrate how digital technologies can enable sustainable, more-than-human smart cities in practice and policy. We will use inclusive and creative co-design methods, working in close collaboration with key community, business, and policy partners to include the perspectives of human and non-human inhabitants. We will produce the following outputs from the research: new methods for decentering the human in smart cities, new digital and data visualisation prototypes, new artworks and a book, open source toolkit and data sets, practical guidelines for designing more-than-human smart cities in for industry, policy and with communities, an interdisciplinary workshop and cross-sector symposium for the general public. We will also conduct public engagement and dissemination activities that include art commissions and an exhibition that will help to deliver a transformational agenda to the wider public and create impact at scale.