Institute for the Future (IFTF)'s video: IFTF Foresight Talk: How to Use Foresight to Build Responsible Smart Cities that Align w Our Values

Aired on Thursday, July 28 • 9am PDT Across the world, as people move to urban centers, more places are investing in smart city technologies. A smart city uses sensors to collect data that is ultimately meant to serve the interests of its residents, but what are the values city administrators and technology experts are putting at the center of their decisions as they build our smart city infrastructures? Join us for a conversation with Rod Falcon, IFTF Program Director, and Julieta Matos Castaño, researcher at the DesignLab of the University of Twente in the Netherlands, for a conversation about how we can use futures thinking to stimulate ethical reflection on smart cities. Julieta will share and demonstrate the "Future Frictions" web experience, which is a simulation she and her colleagues built using foresight methodology to provoke important debate about the future of smart cities and their social impacts. To experience "Future Frictions" and find more information about the project and its collaborators, visit www.responsiblecities.nl. Julieta Matos Castaño Julieta is a futures researcher and practitioner at the DesignLab of the University of Twente in The Netherlands. Her expertise lies in developing and experimenting with creative methods to tackle societal challenges and work towards responsible innovation. Being an airport planner and having worked as a change management consultant, Julieta has an interdisciplinary profile that allows her to put her research efforts into practice. She uses her more than 13 years of research and industry experience to collaborate with public institutions, businesses and citizens to co-shape desirable futures. The work of Julieta and her colleagues has been featured at the Dutch Design Week in the last years. In 2019, Julieta co-founded the Speculative Futures Chapter in The Hague (The Netherlands) where she frequently hosts events for practitioners, researchers and wider audiences. With her work as a chapter co-leader, Julieta aims to foster futures literacy and establish discussions around varied relevant societal topics such as privacy, smart city controversies or future digital economies amongst others. IFTF Foresight Talks webinars host leading-edge foresight practitioners in practical, inspiring conversations about how and why they do their work. Join us to hear insights and reflections on the evolving futures landscape - and to ask your own questions directly in a Q&A session. These talks are free, open to all, and ideal for graduates of the IFTF Foresight Essentials training. Each session lasts one hour, includes a period for questions from the audience, and is archived below one week after its airing. Foresight Talks occur monthly. Learn more at www.iftf.org/foresightessentials © 2022 Institute for the Future