The City Is My Homescreen

Explore a visionary keynote address from the ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces that reimagines urban interaction design. Delve into Dan Hill's innovative perspective on using the city as inspiration for contemporary interaction design and the architecture of future hybrid digital-physical services, spaces, and communities. Discover how viewing the city as an interface for new forms of infrastructure and services can reinforce social fabric and wellbeing. Learn about the potential of augmented modes of legible urban interactions to enable co-design of a new kind of city, creating public value for a broader range of citizens. Gain insights from Hill's unique position at the intersection of design, urbanism, and technology, drawing from his extensive experience in leadership roles across built environment, education, research, government, and media sectors. Examine project examples illustrating how urban interactions can address key questions of application, ownership, and identity in tomorrow's cities.