Urbanflow: Turn Cities Into Playgrounds

Ever got frustrated in a city because your GPS told you the exact location but you were still lost? This is the concept of a future solution. Urbanscale teamed up with Nordkapp to design a set of updated public signage called Urbanflow that’s as connected and interactive as your smartphone. 

Urbanflow would add a layer of personalized interactivity to common public signage, so that tourists could find a specific route or place to visit on a local map.  It does this by using what Urbanscale calls the "ambient data" generated by the interaction of people and infrastructure, "such as energy consumption, traffic density, air quality and municipal works." The idea is that you can see what’s going on, but also communicate back to the city with your own updates. This is just a design concept that we hope to see become reality far into the future.
We also recommend watching: "Future of Eyewear: Augmented reality in your Eyes" and "Augmented Reality: Blessing or Curse?".

Urbanflow: Turn Cities Into Playgrounds

Urbanscale was founded by Adam Greenfield in 2010 to bring a human-centered perspective to the design of products, services, and spatial interventions wherever networked information technology intersects the urban condition, for the benefit of everybody who lives, works, strives, and dreams in the world’s cities.