By now, just about any city with a progressive outlook has
conducted an open data apps contest–inviting hackers to create
applications that make life better there. But Dublin, Ireland,
is putting other places to shame. Next year, its HACK THE CITY
exhibition and festival will present a slew of events,
workshops, installations, and mass-participation experiments
aimed at exploring ways to make cities work better. “We want to
leave an imprint that inspires people to think differently about
how we could an should live in cities,” says Teresa Dillon,
curator for the festival at Science Gallery, an initiative of
Trinity College Dublin. The Galley has been gathering
applications from software hackers, artists, community
activists, engineers and urban planners who want to participate
by producing installations, performances, workshops, apps, etc.
The call for proposals closes January 20, but Dillon says it’s
not too late to get started on a proposal and urges people with
innovative ideas to bring them forward. Find