The Challenges with Digital Societies
As societies increasingly become digital, there’s a new set of challenges that are evolving. Empathic Cities aims at addressing these contemporary challenges using empathic design.
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Social Isolation
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Reducing Marriage Rates
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Decline in Multi-generational households
How we Solve this Problem
Our approach puts empathic design at the centre, enabling us to develop solutions that are tailored to individual communities and making everyone a stakeholder. With our design thinking process and a Collaborative Platform, we ensure no one is left behind.
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STEP 1
Empathetic design workshop
We will identify the particular and most urgent needs of the community, and will guide the conceptualization of AI technology-based solutions to address them.
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STEP 2
Deployment of a communication platform
This platform provides various channels (discussion, proposals submission, voting options, news feed etc.) and modes of access (digital and eventually physical).
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STEP 3
Development of responses
Provide concrete solutions in a user-driven development framework.
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STEP 4
Implement response proposals
After final approval from community members, implement response proposals.
Our Projects
Our first project is for all the citizens of Magome, Japan, who will get an equal opportunity to collectively agree on the long term vision for their homeland. The platform will allow all citizens to come to common grounds and be able to voice their ideas for the future of Magome’s development.
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Our Team
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Naomi Hanakata, Ph.D.Architecture, Urban Planning, Urban Geography
Assistant Professor at the College for Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Aveek DeScale Solutioning, Program Management
Head of Technology Practice, Catalyst Management Services, India
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Noyuri Mima, Ph.D.Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology
Professor at the School of Systems Information Science, Future University Hakodate, Japan
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Antoine Pasquali, Ph.D.Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence
Chief Technology Officer at Cross Compass Ltd., and Research Advisor at Cross Labs, Japan
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Olaf Witkowski, Ph.D.Machine Learning, Artificial Life
Director of Research at Cross Labs, and Lecturer at the University of Tokyo, Japan