”It is civilization that depends on cities, not the other way around.”
Cities are one of the world’s oldest social technologies and perhaps our most important one.
As societal information-processing units they have both dictated and restricted our activities, as well as opened up our capacity for and speed of innovation.
During this session we’ll explore policy through the lens of protocols.
In comparison to other initiatives aiming to develop new cities and ways of city building, we’ll explore what we think is a subtler, but more powerful interstitial approach to implementing a new operating system for cities.
During the workshop we’ll:
Explain protocols, policy and explore the nexus of the two, including what new affordances they can unlock for cross-jurisdictional knowledge sharing, governance and funding public goods
Look at where current solutions fall short and what “legos” we have available to address the big problems of today (hint: the goal is to create a better container for solutions to emerge, not try to solve every problem directly.)
Develop a policy and protocolize it vertically (across geographic scales: local <> global) and horizontally (between a geographies: city <> city).
