System-integrated wise/smart city - Kiruna Sustainability Center
Cities and their built environment are made up of many layers of systems or structures, where system means a number of components (parts of the system) that work together towards a common goal. Structure means a connection between parts of a whole, their order and relationship to each other.
The visible physical systems include, for example, the structure of buildings, streets and green spaces. There are also systems that are not visible, such as pipeline structures with water and sewage, cables for electricity and fiber, etc. But there are also invisible socially constructed structures, how we act together, what social rules we have between fellow human beings, etc. Above the physical visible and the social invisible structures, we have written down and decided laws and regulations, which have developed over several hundred years and which we have to follow. The horizontal layers of structures illustrated here are all integrated with each other, meaning that they are affected by and influence each other.
The System Integration sub-project is a case within the Kiruna Sustainability center. In it, we will seek which are the main points where each structure affects other main structures, here called nodes. The intention is to use digital technology to adjust and adapt the structures to find forms of resonance between them, that is, how they strengthen each other. The aim is to avoid dissonance, where the structures instead counteract and interfere with each other. Examples of resonance can be so-called sociotechnical systems, where innovative technological systems are received socially positively and facilitate people's everyday lives.
The majority of the layers in a community's system are the responsibility of the municipality. The integration of the systems is clearly linked to and dependent on how the municipality is organized in order to develop resonance between the systems. It will therefore be important to study how innovations such as system integration are managed through the different levels of the organization within the administration.
In the project, we will use the Kiruna Sustainability Center's (KSC) case Flexible traffic solutions to develop system integration between the different layers of traffic. This is partly to integrate sub-projects within KSC, and partly to make it possible to have a feasible amount of data in digital processes.
Working group:
Kristina L Nilsson, Architecture
Christer Åhlund, Distributed Computer Systems
Jennie Sjöholm, Architecture
Saguna Saguna, Distributed Computer Systems
Kiruna Sustainability Center (KSC External link, opens in new window.)
Kiruna Sustainability Center (KSC)
The Kiruna Sustainability Center (KSC) is a large transdisciplinary collaboration project between Kiruna Municipality/Tekniska verken AB, Luleå University of Technology and RISE to develop and test ideas, methods and solutions for sustainable urban development in connection with the relocation of Kiruna. The main projects under the KSC umbrella include:
- Testbed Kiruna, funded by Tillväxtverket, co-financed by Region Norrbotten, Sparbanken Nord, LTU and RISE. LTU coordinator Kristina L Nilsson
- Innovation Platform Kiruna, funded by Vinnova and co-financed by LTU and RISE. LTU coordinator Christer Åhlund
Contact
Jennie Sjöholm
- Gäst universitetslektor
- 0920-491849
- jennie.sjoholm@ltu.se
- Jennie Sjöholm
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