A Smart urban furniture collection improving services for Smart Cities

LuxTurrim 5G+

Aalto Design Factory | Nokia & Spinverse
Design Researcher
Finland | 2020

Contribution: design research, co-design workshops planning, functional analysis, Ambit design collection, infographics’ structures, prototypes manufacturing (Smart bench & Smart bus stop).

Smart cities invest in human, social capital, transportation, and communication resources to fuel sustainable economic growth and citizens' wellbeing. With the upcoming 5G connectivity, autonomous vehicles and real-time services will develop further in cities. LuxTurrim 5G+ is a consortium project that aims to provide the urban infrastructure through Smart poles for Smart cities.

What do we research about Smart Cities?

The project required broadening our research about a smart city ecosystem. From a holistic perspective, smart cities link services, products, and data to improve their daily operations. All the city data is collected in a data marketplace by the sensors installed in the urban infrastructure. Then, data is processed to create data products that the city services use to predict and automatize processes in real-time.

The activities realized during the research were:

Online co-design workshops with citizens.
Desk research about emerging technologies trends and benchmarking.
In-depth interviews with experts.

LT5G+
Services & Products!

Through a citizen-centric approach, the outcome of our contribution was four Smart furniture concept collections -Loop, Ambit, Edge, and Flow- displayed using virtual reality, three full-scale prototypes, and an infographic model of the project's product-service ecosystem.

VR Ambit Collection

Inspired by traditional European cities, the Ambit collection has a sober, simple, and timeless aesthetic that hides the technology discreetly to respects historic buildings. Each team member developed one of the collections, the one that I designed was Ambit.