Interfaces for the future city

UCity

We design practical, speculative tools for cities becoming digital — where citizens, planners, simulations and non-human voices meet.

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UCity works between urban planning, interaction design and spatial computation. The work is not software for its own sake. It is a search for the interfaces that make future decisions visible, discussable and useful before they are built.

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Nature

City of Tampere · 2025

What does the city look like from a sparrow's perspective?
A conversational AI avatar — a sparrow — trained on real field data from urban Tampere. It speaks about its needs: food sources, water, shelter. It participates in city planning meetings. A prototype for multi-species democratic participation.
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San José
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San José

City of San Jose + Vinnova · 2025

Citizens see the future of their street before it's built.
A browser-based augmented reality platform. No app required. Citizens point their phone at a street corner and see the planned mobility hub anchored to its exact location — centimetre precision. They vote on proposals and submit feedback through an AI agent. City planners receive AI-aggregated insights via a live dashboard.
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Tampere

City of Tampere · 2024

Redesign your neighbourhood. In augmented reality.
Citizens and small business owners in Tampere used augmented reality to reshape their streets. A conversational AI avatar gathered structured feedback on what was missing in the neighbourhood. The findings were surfaced to planners via a real-time dashboard — closing the loop between people and decision-makers.
StreetSense
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StreetSense

Umeå Energi · 2021

How does it feel to walk down this street?
An edge computing device that processes video entirely on-device. No data ever leaves the hardware — only anonymised skeleton coordinates and GPS positions. It tracked pedestrian movement, inferred emotional states through gait analysis, and generated a city-scale well-being index. GDPR-certified by the Swedish Data Inspectorate.
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Zero City

Toyota + Tekniska Museet Stockholm · 2022

A playable city. An experiment in autonomous mobility.
A virtual world mirroring the Zero City exhibition at Tekniska Museet in Stockholm. Visitors explored the city on foot, by bike, and by car. In collaboration with Toyota, we simulated the deployment of the e-Palette autonomous minibus — testing platform configurations and stop placements based on virtual population movement data.