The 24-Hour City Project
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The 24-Hour City Project, inspired by the National Building Museum’s Intelligent Cities initiative, explores the intersection of the built environment, data, the arts, and information technology. In June, 2011 interdisciplinary teams competed to develop physical and digital interventions at the museum which were displayed concurrently with the Intelligent Cities forum. The project aimed to make these concepts relevant, engaging, and accessible to the public and municipal officials through creative experiments in temporary urbanism and digital innovation.
The project had several goals including:
- Leverage technology and data to reveal hidden relationships between our physical and digital worlds, and impact the way we interact with our environments and each other;
- Focus on citizen-generated services to redefine the relationship between citizens and government;
- Accelerate the transfer of ideas between entrepreneurs and urban change agents;
- Generate useful data so that we can make more informed public policy decisions; and
- Enhance our ability to communicate with one another to create vibrant and livable cities.
The project launched a controlled beta version in tandem with the National Building Museum’s Intelligent Cities forum on June 6 in Washington. D.C. Three interdisciplinary teams comprised of technology, arts, architecture, engineering and planning professionals were pre-selected to compete over who can most effectively visualize the intersection of data and information technology with the built environment. Teams were judged by their creativity, relevancy to the general public, interdisciplinary approach and ability to be replicated elsewhere.
In November, 2011 the 24-Hour City Project competition will continue with four new installations in collaboration with DC Digital Week.
