Urban Logisitics & Machine Learning , 2024

After 5 years of La Pile (experiments on producing and using electricity at human scale) City Mine(d) has found a new system to untangle! A new lens to look at how our city life is shaped: How do we move stuff around (a nut humans have been trying to crack for 50 (FIFTY!?) centuries (CENTURIES!?), ever since we've been bringing goods to markets)

We want to find out what works well and why, and what could suit us better and how.

So we want to talk and listen. Collect stories and data. Find transporters, retailers, storers (warehousers, not storytellers)(also storytellers), and YOU who are using the logistic system every day! It is a quest for levers and inspiring alternatives

We were told that the # urbanlogistics system  -the networks that put food on our plates and clothes in our wardrobes- is the most unlikely system for citizen involvement. They shouldn’t have told us.

Granted, it is the most hidden of all the systems that shape our lives:
It does not even have its own infrastructure
but piggybacks on others like mobility, public space, food and fashion.

But we have trouble with ignoring a good challenge:

And also granted:
the system is increasingly automated and de-humanised.

But we’re not afraid of that either.

Automation started with punched cards

SO let’s take it back from there:
we’re building a punched card machine named LOGICIENNE
to help us translate our first encounters into punched cards

Machinelearning in reverse - NOT about a machine that learns BUT an excuse for many of us to learn by building analogue machines.