Sensuous Cities: IOT, Blockchain Smart Contracts & Citizen Science Tools & Strategies

In Sandy Pentland’s most recent book, Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter, he examines and answers big questions like, “How can we design organizations and governments that are cooperative, productive, and creative?”

This Steemit post will examine several citizen science tools and best-practices for those interested in improving how we manage our shared natural and social capital resources.

Citizens’ Observatories enable citizens to adopt a key role as Citizen Scientists, in the stewardship and management of their environment.

“What you are trying to do is make a human-machine symbiote, where the humans understand more about the network of interactions because of the computers, and the computers are able to understand more about how humans work, and therefore, work better with them,” -Sandy Pentland

Hardware+ Software to check out for IOT:
Arduino & Raspberri Pi, with various other sensors and devices.
Processing, P5js, Temboo, Spacebrew, Meshblu

Questions for our discussion:
-How can we include blockchain smart contracts created using The Ethereum Solidity language and Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) governance models to improve the Citizen Science process?
-How can interdisciplinary practitioners in the design, architecture, engineering, and art worlds work better together to solve urgent issues for humanity?

Let's begin with a look at case studies from Public Lab, & Intelligent River

Stay tuned for the next post where I will introduce a new citizen science observatory project that invites participants to co-create projects that expand on these ideas.

Check out my Github where i've collected many useful libraries and code for Blockchain and IOT projects as well as a wide range of VR, AR, IR, AI and a few other 2-letter wizardry, as well as some MIDI, and Max MSP sketches.