Global Cities are growing at an amazing place and are changing the ways in which we live, work, play, and relate to each other. The term Smart Cities describes a movement to apply new technological developments towards the development of these cities, but does doing so create a city that we actually want to live in? This presentation will address the role of culture and artists in creating a dynamic "place" and the role that Museums might play in promoting a cultural dialog within their local communities

1. SMART CITIES NEED
SMART MUSEUMS
Robert Stein
Dallas Museum of Art
@rjstein

2. 70% OF THE GLOBAL
POPULATION WILL LIVE IN
ONE BY 2050 CITIES
Flickr Credit ~fab05
Source: Guardian Cities, Jan 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jan/27/guardian-cities-site-urban-future-dwell-
human-history-welcome

3. Photo by Jason Hawkes

4. Flickr Credit ~Artisticbokeh

5. Flickr Credit ~X_ray_delta_one

6. Flickr Credit ~indiamos

9. Photo by Jason Hawkes
SMART
CITIES
HAVE A PROBLEM

10. DATA IS EASY TO GRAB,
BUT HUMANS ARE
POORLY EQUIPPED
TO DEAL WITH IT

11. Flickr Credit ~X_ray_delta_one
DESPITE OUR
PERCIEVED INNOVATION,
PRODUCTIVITY IS
FALLING
Source: Has the Ideas Machine Broken Down, The Economist. Jan, 2013.

12. TECHNOLOGY IS ACCELERATING
THE PACE OF LIVING.
Image Credit ~Scobleizer

13. THE DARK SIDE OF SMART CITIES
Negotiating the circumstances of everyday life in any true city tends over time to
create a broad-minded, feisty, opinionated personality type we'd have no problem
recognizing, wherever and whenever it appears in human history. City people may
well be tolerant of diversity not out of any personal commitment to a utopian
politics, but because that's just what the daily necessity of living cheek-by-jowl with
people who are different imposes upon you.
And yet it's just this set of characteristics that so many smart-city provisions seem
hell-bent on undermining, or even eradicating. The ability to search the space of
the city for the perfectly congenial set of circumstances, to tune the environment
until we never have to leave the contours of our own comfort: where the making of
city-dwellers and citizens is concerned, that's a bug, not a feature. It erodes the
development of savoir faire; it eliminates the risk, but also everything wonderful,
that arises in the confrontation with difference.
Adam Greenfield, The Dark Side of the “Smart City”
Interview by Annalee Newitz on IO9. January 30, 2014
http://io9.com/the-dark-side-of-the-smart-city-1512608758

14. Why is this a place I want to live?

15. Flickr Credit ~choimakko
WHAT MAKES A
CITY SMART?
and not just another dumb bunny

16. CITIES NEED SMART PEOPLE

17. CITIES NEED CREATIVE PEOPLE
cited by 1500 CEO’s as the single
most crucial factor for future
success
IBM, 2010 http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31670.wss)

18. The future [of knowledge] is to let ‘the machines’
do the heavy lifting and for us humans to focus on
connecting the dots, discovering context, meaning
and relevance, and to make human sense of it all.
THE FUTURE
OF KNOWLEDGE
Gerd Leonhard. The Future of Knowledge. Jan 7, 2014
https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/creativektn/article-view/-/blogs/the-future-of-knowledge

19. … right-brain thinking becomes extremely
valuable, once again, as empathy, improvisation
and interdependent thinking become the new
standard. Knowledge, becomes not an asset used
for control or dominance, but for contribution and
co-creation.
THE FUTURE
OF KNOWLEDGE
Gerd Leonhard. The Future of Knowledge. Jan 7, 2014
https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/creativektn/article-view/-/blogs/the-future-of-knowledge

21. Almost all Nobel laureates in the sciences
actively engage in arts as adults. They are
twenty-five times as likely as the average
scientist to sing, dance, or act; seventeen
times as likely to be a visual artist; twelve
times more likely to write poetry and literature;
eight times more likely to do woodworking or
some other craft; four times as likely to be a
musician; and twice as likely to be a
photographer.
Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein
Psychology Today February, 2009
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/imagine/200902/missing-piece-in-the-economic-
stimulus-hobbling-arts-hobbles-innovation

22. Flickr Credit ~candylei

24. James Clerk Maxwell (physicist),
Ogden Rood (physicist), and Michele
Chevreul (chemist) significantly
influenced Seurat and the
Neo-Impressionsts
Georges Seurat
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte – 1884
Art Institute of Chicago

25. Joseph Marie Jacquard

27. ARTISTS ARE
ADAPTING

28. Joris Laarman

30. “I find beauty in the continual shaping of
chaos, which clearly embodies the primordial
power of nature's performance”

34. ARE MUSEUMS
ADAPTING?
Armory Show – Chicago, 1913

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1. Know Your Audience
2. Know What You’re
Trying to Achieve
3. Know Your Performance
At Any Moment
4. Know Your Limits

38. THANK YOU
@rjstein