Walking the walk - Talking the talk
The topic “Smart City” is so new and so broad it’s difficult for all us to fully understand the many risks and benefits to our future cities. Let’s break it down to explain what these urban technologies are and why they’re important to policymakers, designers and locals interest groups. Tapp leads-by-example, so each of the projects are relevant, real and relatable.
Smart City Ukrain ““Responsible Urban Tech”
03.2021
On 03 March 2021 we will be glad to exchange experience with our foreign colleague Tom van Arman, an Architect & urban planner, Founder and CEO at TAPP - Smart City Strategy, Amsterdam. We will speak about such great projects launched in Amsterdam: ShutterUp, Future Fitness Garden, Marineterrein, Innercity Living Lab, Responsible Sensing Toolkit, Future City Makers. We will discuss the role of an inner-city living lab. The importance of a smart city prototype The difference between citizen versus privacy by design Join us!
Urban tech without public participation doesn’t work
02.2021
Tapp builds a bridge between the 20th century physical city and the 21st century digital landscape. It works as a collective. For each project, a specific team is put together of people with different disciplines and backgrounds. Tapp is located on it Marineterrein in Amsterdam. In this Living Lab, ideas are tested that contribute to a sustainable and future-proof city. One of the projects that Van Arman is working on with Tapp is the open source crowd monitor . This open source crowd monitor has been developed according to the principles of Tada in collaboration with the Chief Technology Office Amsterdam (CTO) and Markus Pfundsteinfounder of Life Electronic .
living labs – discovering the future of our cities
08.2020
“When we turn ourselves from consumers into prosumers, we can solve big problems”
ESOMAR’s Srikar Govindaraju speaks to Tom van Arman, architect and urban planner, and a key figure at the Marineterrein living lab in Amsterdam. Living labs are providing crucial insights into how to create smarter, safer, and more sustainable cities for the future, and Srikar and Tom dive into how this research is more important than ever during the COVID pandemic. As the world becomes increasingly urbanised and sustainability ever more important, how do we make sure the cities of tomorrow are the best that they can be?
05.2019
eGov Fokus:
The city of tomorrow is smart, open and participatory! Tom was the keynote speak at the Bern University of Applied Sciences. The event showed that smart city concepts only work when cities activate their populations. Administration, business, science and industry also need to work closely together.
https://www.netzwoche.ch/news/2019-05-13/die-stadt-von-morgen-ist-smart-offen-und-partizipativ
03.2019
Go Smart Taipei
Our CITIXL initiative claimed top prize for the 2019 Inter-city PoC Award at the 2019 Smart City Summit in Taipei. The project explores how AI / Smart Cameras impact urban design in amsterdam and Taipei City.
More info: https://smartcity.taipei
01.2019
Amsterdam Smart Stories
Tom is featured in the latest Amsterdam Smart Stories edition where he describes his house as a Virtual Power Plant that produces, stores and shares energy with 50 other neighbours in Amsterdam Nieuw-West.
More info: https://smartstories.nl/18.html
09.2018
451e Conference - Lviv Ukraine
14-15 September - Smart City Edition, Tom will be sharing the experience of effective accumulation and aggregation of solutions for the fastest transformation into a digital city.
More info: http://451e.lviv.ua
08.2018
Accenture Innovation Award Nomination
Tapp has been nominated into the Top 25 in the 2018 Accenture Innovation Awards Competition within the Living & Working theme to make our cities smarter, sustainable and more responsive.
07.2018
Igloo Magazine Interview
A Conversation with Tom van Arman on Amsterdam Smart City. The architectural, interior, and travel magazine asks Tom about his “must-see Amsterdam Smart City Project List”
https://www.igloo.ro/conversation-tom-van-arman-amsterdam-smart-city/
06.2018
Gizmoto Interview
Gizomoto in da (smart) house! The first episode of Gizmodo’s new series “From the Lab” takes a close look at the Virtual Power Plant project in Tom’s house in Amsterdam
Watch Video here:
https://gizmodo.com/this-house-is-a-living-experiment-for-the-future-of-ene-1826844445
05.2018
Future Mobility Workshop
Last week we hosted the Future Of Mobility Workshop at the SmartCities NY ’18 Conference where we demonstrated how The Netherlands is the leader in smart, safe and sustainable mobility. Together with industry leaders like Deloitte TomTom & Atos,
Watch Video here: https://youtu.be/HzDvvjSaOZk?t=1m11s
03.2018
Fish Hack
Jury duty! This weekend at the Noordzee 32hr Hackathon tackling the shortages facing the fishing industry in the North Sea. Lots of sustainable and innovative solutions thanks to many data crunchers, netwerk experts, coders en designers.