Last week we held a few workshops as part of Internet Week Europe.

I ran a workshop looking at the electric city – a city with pervasive Internet access, a public with mobile Internet devices, objects in the city containing computers, and objects talking to each other. It’s a city in which many of us live, even if all the benefits and costs haven’t yet been realised or explored. As a part of the workshop, people looked at what interventions there might be in different situations for different people – the people being represented by a Lego minifig.

The inventions included: lamppost breathalysers, colour changing floors to tell you where to walk and where to stand, Nickr, an iPhone app for thieves, a shopping centre for cats, an augmented looking glass for detectives and a hotdog cycle delivery scheme.

Photos of some of the inventions & interventions:

See more here.

Thanks to Matt Cottam and Maia Garau for their help with the workshop format and running the original workshop at Picnic.