Centre for Sustainable Communications, KTH

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Centre for Sustainable Communications, KTH

Paper-Scissors-Stone the mediated version
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Visualisation, Interaction Communication
Peter Anders 1997 Cybrids
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VINNOVA Centre of Excellence for Sustainable
Communications

• one of 15 VINNOVA Centres of Excellence to be
  established within Sweden during 2007
• Joint long-term financing (10 years) by industry,
  society, academia and VINNOVA (Swedish
  Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems)
• Our mission is to create mediated communication
  services for sustainable practices...
• ...innovative applications of media and
  communications technologies that can contribute,
  directly or indirectly, to sustainable
  development by enabling collaboration,
  interaction and communication exchange between
  people in different locations.

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Our vision Sustainable Practices

• We envision a society transformed by innovative
  communication services
• that facilitate new business models and work and
  learning processes,
• that create new paradigms for industrial,
  societal and academic institutions,
• ...thereby offering new sustainable solutions and
  viable alternatives to existing travel and
  transport Sustainable practices

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Sustainability Three dimensions!
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Centre Partners

• Ericsson
• TeliaSonera
• The Bonnier Group
• Tidningsutgivarna Swedish Newspapers Publishers
  Association
• Boverket The National Board of Housing, Building
  and Planning
• Joltid AB
• Stiftelsen Folkets Hubb Community Hub Foundation
• Sting Stockholm Innovation and Growth
• VTI Swedish National Road and Transport Research
  Institute

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Budget 2007-2017

• VinnovaKTHCentre Partners
• 2007 4,2Mkr cash, 5,3Mkr in kind
• 2008 6,8Mkr cash 7.3Mkr in kind
• 2009-2017 21Mkr cash/in kind

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Interdisciplinary Research

• Collaboration between two KTH Schools
• School of Architecture and the Built Environment
  (KTH-ABE)
• School of Computer Science and Communication
  (KTH-CSC)
• Promote knowledge exchange relating to
• media technology, telecommunications,
  information technology, transport systems,
  sustainable strategies, social and cultural
  sciences, architecture, design and planning.
• and other technology and methods to support human
  communication across time and space (mediated
  communications)

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Interdisciplinary Research

• Collaboration between two KTH Schools
• School of Architecture and the Built Environment
  (KTH-ABE)
• School of Computer Science and Communication
  (KTH-CSC)
• Promote knowledge exchange relating to
• media technology, telecommunications,
  information technology, transport systems,
  sustainable strategies, social and cultural
  sciences, architecture, design and planning.
• and other technology and methods to support human
  communication across time and space (mediated
  communications)
• such as Speech, Music and Hearing - Dept at CSC

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Centre Projects Tracks
Centre Forerunners 2007
CENTRE GOALS 2009
2007
CENTRE GOALS 2012

PROJECT TRACK 1 Assessment tools for
sustainability
PROJECT TRACK 2 ReMix New media formats
PROJECT TRACK 3 Mediated environments and design
PROJECT TRACK 4 The Mediated City urban planning
PROJECT TRACK 5 The Mediated Society innovation
strategies
PROJECT TRACK 6 High Growth Markets Sustainable
practices
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Laboratories for Sustainable Communications
FS3 MEDIATED ENVIRONMENTS AND DESIGN Mediated
Spaces for Work Play Physical, virtual,
mixed-reality design prototypes
events Participatory design, user lab
performance spaces Architecture meets Media
Communications
KTH R1 The Reactor Hall An Experimental
Performance Space
KTH OSQUARS BACKE 31 Mediated Learning
Spaces KTHCentreMedia Masters Programme The
Mediated International Conference
...Ericsson
R1-RAÄ R1-EXP En tillgänglig
En experimentell scen forskningskultu
rmiljö
...Boverket, VTI Bonnier
Keywords presence, trust, awareness,
affinity Mediated access Mediated
presence Mediated inclusion
HIIT (The Mediated Professor)
Lillehammer, Luleå
Dept fms Media Technology
KTH_at_Pakistan
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Live as we preach...
Mediated performance spaces
Mediated café
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Mediated environments previous work 1995-2006
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30-40 projects and installations since 1998

• Collaboration across time and space mediated
  environments, extended spaces, windows,
  media space, presence production,
  mixed reality
• Different contexts of design work play,
  learning, meetings, collaboration, dialogue,
  knowledge transfer, community building etc
• Cultural performances, interactive stage
  performances
• Societal services, e-inclusion, increased access,
  museums, health services, consultation

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The mediated workplace in the Stockholm
Archipelago
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Mediated unemployment services inDalarna region
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Now, were really accessible for our customers
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KTH Community Hub e-inclusion

• Broadband for all
• Remote areas emerging markets
• DSL, 3G, WiMax

• A window to the world
• Presence, eye-contact
• e-governence
• e-trade
• e-health
• e-inclusion

• Large scale
• e-cincema
• Cultural performances
• Politics, religion, sport
• Corporate, NGO

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Mediated environments previous work 1995-2006
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ME2 Medierat museum Tillgänglighet till
Kärnreaktorn R1

• Finansierat av Riksantikvarieämbetet
• Syfte
• Bevarande
• Användning
• Tillgänglighet
• för nya besökare att
• uppleva rummet, dess
• historia och forskningskulturhistoria
• www.r1.kth.se

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Music together close far away
The Project Connected Performance Spaces
(KTH-Stanford 2004)
Stanford
KTH
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Music together close far away
a physically divided stage and venue a shared
musical performance
Stanford
KTH
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Communication hexagon
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Communication hexagon
Cameras
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Mediated environments previous work 1995-2006
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TIDE television in a digital environmentLilleha
mmer-Gjøvik
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TIDE television in a digital environmentLilleha
mmer-Gjøvik
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TIDE television in a digital environmentLilleha
mmer-Gjøvik
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Kontakt

• Centrets föreståndare Charlie Gullström
• Centre for Sustainable Communications
• KTH 100 44 Stockholm
• charlieg_at_kth.se
• Tel [phone]