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Senseable City Lab :.:: Massachusetts Institute of Technology This paper might be a pre-copy-editing or a post-print author-produced .pdf of an article accepted for publication. For the definitive publisher-authenticated version, please refer directly to publishing house’s archive system SENSEABLE CITY LAB SENSEable CITY GUIDE TO AMSTERDAM A AMSTERDAM SENSEable CITY GUIDE COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ©2016 by SENSEable City Lab. We thank the City of Amsterdam and the All rights reserved. Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Cambridge, Massachusetts. Solutions for funding this research. PRODUCED BY EDITED BY SENSEable City Lab David Lee Department of Urban Studies and Planning Annie Weisbrod, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Global Product Stewardship, P&G WITH SUPPORT FROM AUTHORS City of Amsterdam Lily Bui Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Maxwell Jarosz Solutions Myung Duk Chung Charles Steelman FACULTY Wenling Li Carlo Ratti Alan Kwan GRAPHIC DESIGN studio FM milano PRODUCTION MANAGERS Ricardo Alvarez Matthew Claudel Anthony Vanky PRINTED BY Puritan Press PUBLISHED BY MIT School of Architecture and Planning ISBN 978–0–9984189–2–6 SENSEable City Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 9–209 | 77 Massachusetts Av. Cambridge, Massachusetts | 02139 USA T++ 1–617–2537926 | F++ 1–617–2588081 senseable.mit.edu 6 SENSEable CITY GUIDE SCG Amsterdam / WORLD MAP INTRODUCTION Welcome to the SENSEable City Lab – a cutting–edge multidisciplinary research group that studies the interface between cities, people, and W technologies and investigates how the ubiquity of digital devices and the C M various telecommunication networks S L B M that augment our cities, are impacting A P B V urban living. With an overall goal of T Z F B anticipating future trends, we bring N R T M B S together researchers from over a dozen academic disciplines to work on D groundbreaking ideas and innovative R real–world demonstrations. C M J Each academic year, the SENSEable P City Lab invites students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology L to participate in the Digital City Design M S Workshop. The workshop seeks to N provide pragmatic, technological J solutions that address a key concern of urban living. The SENSEable City Guide series showcases this research which is undertaken in partnership with cities R from across the world. B B C S SENSEable CITY LAB – MIT – BOSTON 7 W C M S L B M A P B V T Z F B N R T M B S D R C M J P L M S N J R B B C S A AMSTERDAM A1 / Verlichten A4 / Sterrennacht (‘Starry Night’) A2 / Guiding Light A5 / Share the Shine A3 / Hugging Light A6 / FlyLight Amsterdam SENSEable City Guide A1 / A3 / A5 / Verlichten Hugging Light Share the Shine by Lily Bui by Myung Duk Chung by Wenling Li A2 / A4 / A6 / Guiding Light Sterrennacht (‘Starry Night’) FlyLight by Maxwell Jarosz by Charles Steelman by Alan Kwan SENSEable CITY LAB, MIT Amsterdam Introduction by Ricardo Álvarez STREET LIGHTS OF the world and welcomes more AMSTERDAM than 750,000 visitors every year. Street lights are a key piece of urban For the spring 2015 Senseable CIty infrastructure for cities around the world. Lab’s Digital Design Workshop class For centuries cities have been placing were given the task of reimagining the lamps on their streets in order to provide street lights of Amsterdam leveraging light to their public spaces and in a sense the potential of digital technologies. conquer the darkness of the night. It is in part because of street lights that life in What other uses for such a relevant piece cities flourish after sundown; that streets of urban furniture could be created? are safe, parks are filled with people In which ways could street lights and commercial activity continues. improve the lives and conditions of the citizens and visitors of Amsterdam? However, this comes at a cost. Street This was their design challenge. In lights account for up to 40% of cities preparation for this work the students energy consumption and are a known took a deep dive into the current cause of light pollution; as such there technological state-of-the-art intelligent is a pressing need to improve them. street lights being deployed in cities Given that there are more than one around the world and then challenged billion street lights around the world, the possibilities of their design. this is a monumental endeavor. This book showcases the creative Amsterdam, city of canals, the Venice output from the team, developed as a of the North has a long history with result of their field worked in the city street lights. It is here that Jan van and their design explorations of street der Heyden installed one of the first lights both as functional objects and street lights systems in Europe in 1669 urban system, and their potential for and invented a breakthrough lamp creating new services and experiences which channeled the smoke from for Amsterdammers to enjoy. oil lamps upwards cleaning the air around them and keeping their glass free of soot, a critical invention that helped multiply the adoption of street lamps around the world; within a few decades these lamps were installed by cities such as Paris, London or Paris. Street lights in Amsterdam are also It is in part because of street lights a true architectural delight, creating decorative fixtures that bring beauty that life in cities flourish after to its streets and façades and provide a warm light glow that gives character sundown; that streets are safe, to its public spaces. The city is proud of both its artistic and technological parks are filled with people and heritage in regards to street lights and every year holds the Amsterdam commercial activity continues Light Festival, which showcases artistic and technological innovations from many light artists from around Above: streetlights in a courtyard in Amsterdam STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF Lily Bui’s Verlichten project focuses on communication platform capable of sensation during winter time that ways to help visually impaired people guiding and dynamically distributing enhances the livability and walkability navigate the city. She envisions using the thousands of tourists that everyday of the beautiful streets alongside the street lights as a system that provides visit Amsterdam and who often crowd canals and other districts of the city. guidance cues to people who can’t see many of the most popular destinations their surroundings; in order to do this in the city such as the train station, “Sterrennacth” by Charles Steelman she proposes to integrate a system of the red light district or the Rijks actually proposes to regain a bit of the intelligent 360° cameras capable of Museum. His “Guiding Light” project night sky, lost by way of light pollution. detecting a wide range of elements will create an interactive loop between He envisions a future network of street that could hit blind pedestrians such as tourists smartphones and geofenced lights paired with a series of sensors cars, cyclists or other pedestrians. Lily responsive lights that links the content such as photometers, digital image also tackled the challenge of designing of Amsterdam to the particular sensors and image processors capable an appropriate interface for visually interests of users, guiding them away of detecting pedestrian behaviors on impaired users. The system will interact from the crowds and towards the the streets and mapping accurate light with them by relaying safety directions rich history and culture of the city. and color conditions at a hyper-local through audio cues delivered via their level while leveraging a control system smartphones or through an intelligent Meanwhile Myung Duk Chung designs intelligent enough to modulate the cane capable of synchronizing to the a playful street light that “hugs” light output from each individual LED system hyper-locally in real time in order passerby’s with warmth. His “Hugging powered street light according to to create a safety bubble around them. Light” proposal integrates a series of a variety of spatial and use profiles. digital image and proximity sensors Through his design, Amsterdam could What do you do when you’re a tourist along with the use of computer vision create ideal illuminating conditions arriving in Amsterdam for the first time? technologies and an automated array of that allows its citizens to enjoy both the Do you go about your way risking on infrared micro-heaters embedded in the advantages that a street light provides getting lost or do you follow the crowd streetlight frame. The purpose of these as well being able to enjoy the beauty at the expense of time lost? Maxwell technologies is to provide localized of a starry night, a condition often Jarosz explores these questions and warmth that follows pedestrians lost from our modern metropolises. proposes to leverage the ubiquity of as they walk through the streets street lights to create an intelligent light of Amsterdam, creating a pleasant “Share the Shine” from Wenling Li on the other hand takes the idea of light in the following them as they walk along streets into a completely unexpected less illuminated and dense areas direction. Her exploration focuses in such as urban parks. A multi-drone bringing light and interaction to the synchronization system ensures that canals of Amsterdam, an important there is always a drone light available and iconic system of the city. In her --even when their batteries are close work Wenling discusses her design to being depleted-- while a strategic of intelligent water bicycles that placing of drones arrays along popular sense the water quality of the canals routes allows for a high level of service. while capturing images of the city In this sense Alan’s proposal provides an through their array of sensors.

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