Today, my group and I did a brainstorming session with post-it notes. We each wrote down terms that related to a city, then we reviewed them together, grouping similar terms. What we ended up with was five categories representing features of cities. We split these among us with the intention of exploring each through the filter of a smart city. I chose this category:

Originally, we had planned to call this group “negative characteristics”, but quickly realized that these notes were neither a requirement of an ideal city or even an existing city. We changed the name to “pitfalls” because the population density and age of cities sometimes make them prone to these features.

I chose this category because I was already interested in exploring the alleged”dirtiness” of cities as an extension of my previous post about infectious disease. On an entirely different note, I am passionate about accessibility in software design and I am excited to explore accessibility in cites – both physical and digital.