Institute without Boundaries launches #PlayroomTO

Moving towards an Ethical Smart City – Free Exhibit

Students at George Brown College’s Institute without Boundaries invite you to their new exhibit called #PlayroomTO – an interactive exhibit that will expand your thinking about values, ethics and your future in a smart city such as Toronto.  

This multi sensorial and interactive exhibition will explore the benefits and risks associated with Smart City interventions to promote a shared understanding of how the integration of technology in the fabric of cities might transform human experiences and values.

Open to the public from January 18-25 at George Brown College School of Design – 3 Lower Jarvis Street in Toronto’s Waterfront area. Get your free tickets here. Join us at our opening night on Saturday January 18, 2020, 6:00pm – 8:00 pm  

‘Toward an Ethical Smart City’ will pose the question: “How might we create Ethical Smart Cities while preserving our human values?” For the 2020 DesignTO Festival, the Interdisciplinary Design Strategy (IDS) students at the Institute without Boundaries (IwB) will showcase their research insights and scenarios on Ethical Smart Cities through an interactive, multimedia exhibition. The exhibition proposes the stance that cities need ethics to conquer their challenges and evolve into Ethical Smart Cities.

PlayroomTO explores the possibilities of how cities can move from a smart city to an Ethical Smart City. The exhibit allows visitors to understand how an Ethical Smart City develops with values, technology and challenges. PlayroomTO allows visitors to have an input on how they think Toronto’s major challenges should be solved. PlayroomTO is a fun space that pushes the necessity of ethics in the evolution of Toronto.

Throughout 2019-20, the IwB is in the process of exploring and evaluating the evolution of Smart Cities both nationally and globally in order to contribute to the creation of cities that are smart, ethical, inclusive and sustainable. The current dialogue around Smart Cities focuses heavily on the integration of Information and Communication Technology infrastructure in our cities, including high speed telecommunications networks, sensors and monitoring systems, data storage and other technologies contributing to a technology layer that is integrated into our city systems to enable traditional city networks and services to be more ‘intelligent’ and automated. However, more robust visions for Smart Cities also include emerging technologies ranging from clean energy and biotechnology to material innovations that have the potential to transform the way we plan, develop, construct and live in cities. This multi sensorial and interactive exhibition will explore the benefits and risks associated with Smart City interventions to promote a shared understanding of how the integration of technology in the fabric of cities might transform human experiences and values.

Student participants include: Andrea Facenda Fraino, Céline Genest, Tanya Goyal, Hardeep Kaur, Eirene Keh, Maddy Lawrence, Samira Matan, Amanda Nobile, Adunni Rufai, Nitesh Salwan, Rosanne Sauz, Max Thomson, Jordan Yee

• Open from: Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 6:00 PM –Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 9:00 PM EST
• Location: George Brown College School of Design, 3 Lower Jarvis Street, Toronto, ON M5A 3Y5
• Free Tickets HERE