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Fieldnotes – Hybrid City Lab

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What got us here, won’t get us out of here.

Designing public services in an entangled world. From Forsthoff to today. — Today, all organizations that provide services of general interest for our society are confronted with a double challenge: the digital and the ecological transformation. We fully believe this requires a paradigm shift in the way an organization plans, decides and manages itself in the 21st century. The central shift here…

Public Services

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What got us here, won’t get us out of here.
What got us here, won’t get us out of here.
Public Services

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I am not your expert.

On racism, blind spots and coming to terms with incoherent truths in public spaces. This text was originally written in 2020, among the unsettling events of a strange year, in between collective shocks of a global pandemic, the public murder of George Floyd and subsequent grief, anger, and frustration. It appeared in SoundAdvice’s NOW YOU KNOW publication, a collection of 60 essays by BAME…

Racism

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I am not your expert.
I am not your expert.
Racism

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Jan 18, 2021

Designing Good Systems After 2020

What to make of a year of crisis. — 2020 hit different. We came to witness many of the so often repeated and neglected mantras of the past years come to bite us: from corroding social and political fabrics, to pervasive racism and ubiquitous inequalities, to underfunded public services and non-existent public digital infrastructure. …

Design Theory

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Designing Good Systems After 2020
Designing Good Systems After 2020
Design Theory

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Fieldnotes – Hybrid City Lab

·May 20, 2020

How do you cope?

Teil 2 — Wenn in dieser Woche viele Betriebe und Organisationen langsam einen kleinen Schritt in Richtung Normalität wagen, bleiben viele Fragen offen. Keiner kann eine noch unentschiedene und sich dazu stetig wandelnde Zukunft vorhersehen. Aber wir können einen Schulterblick auf die jüngste Vergangenheit werfen. In den letzten Wochen haben wir vielen Gespräche…

Public Innovation

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How Do You Cope?
How Do You Cope?
Public Innovation

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Fieldnotes – Hybrid City Lab

·May 12, 2020

Strategic research in vast complexity

Lessons learnt from exploring the future of Free Knowledge for Wikimedia Germany. — Unlock your ideas! We are very excited to see a new project come to life: the UNLOCK accelerator by Wikimedia Germany just launched last week. It’s a dedicated initiative to promote the advancement of „Free Knowledge“ in the digital age. …

Public Design

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Strategic research in vast complexity
Strategic research in vast complexity
Public Design

8 min read


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Fieldnotes – Hybrid City Lab

·Apr 7, 2020

Corona, Krisen, Neue Chancen

Von biologischer Disruption, neuen Chancen und alten Gewissheiten.

New Normal

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Corona, Krisen, Neue Chancen
Corona, Krisen, Neue Chancen
New Normal

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zero360

·Apr 3, 2020

Welche Entscheidungen sind jetzt die richtigen?

Orientierungshilfe in Zeiten radikaler Veränderung — Der Virus ist da! Und mit ihm eine gefühlte Flut von anstehenden Entscheidungen, Problemen, und Herausforderungen. Wie immer lohnt es sich, einen Schritt zurückzutreten und etwas Ordnung in eine unübersichtliche Situation zu bringen. Dann wird schnell klar, dass wir mitten in einem Transformationsprozess stecken, den wir weder haben kommen sehen…

Decision Making

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Welche Entscheidungen sind jetzt die richtigen?
Welche Entscheidungen sind jetzt die richtigen?
Decision Making

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Fieldnotes – Hybrid City Lab

·Jan 29, 2020

Hallo Welt! Hallo Hybrid City Lab!

Wir wagen ein Experiment! Wir gründen das Hybrid City Lab. In den letzten Jahren haben wir viel an der Schnittstelle von digitaler Transformation und sinnvollen Produkten und Dienstleistung gearbeitet, gebaut und gelernt. …

Urban Design

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Hallo Welt! Hallo Hybrid City Lab!
Hallo Welt! Hallo Hybrid City Lab!
Urban Design

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Dec 15, 2017

Diversity, Relevance, Globalism in the IoT

Reviewing ThingsConNBO — Last week, we held ThingsCon Nairobi. It was a special event for ThingsCon as an initiative — but also for me personally, as we pushed for this to happen ever since the very first ThingsCon in 2014. Also, ThingsConNBO took place exactly one week after ThingsConAMS, which allowed me to…

Internet Of Things

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Diversity, Relevance, Globalism in the IoT
Diversity, Relevance, Globalism in the IoT
Internet Of Things

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Dec 3, 2017

Looking back: ThingsCon Amsterdam 2017

Take Aways and Learnings from #ThingsConAMS — ThingsCon Amsterdam is a wrap! For the fourth time already the amazing crew around Iskander Smit, Monique van Dusseldorp and Marcel Schouwenaar hosted a wonderful and inspiring event, brimming with open-minded and creative people and ambitious ideas on how to build a responsible Internet of Things. While I could not…

Internet Of Things

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Looking back: ThingsCon Amsterdam 2017
Looking back: ThingsCon Amsterdam 2017
Internet Of Things

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Simon Höher

Simon Höher

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Public Design @hybridcitylab. Co-Founder @thingscon. I like weird astro-jazz.

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