Make Zurich 2020

Civic Tech Hackathon for a better city

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Hackathon for a better city

October 23-31, 2020

What is it?

We are bringing together the local maker community and the city administration to explore new solutions that improve life in the city with the help of open networks and civic tech.

When and where?

The challenges will be presented on October 23rd followed by a hackathon on Friday 30th & Saturday 31st October, 2020 at Zentralwäscherei Zürich.

Make Zurich is a community event organized by Stadt Zürich and Open Network Infrastructure Association.

Challenges

We gathered real needs of different departments of the City of Zurich that could be solved with LoRaWAN and civic tech.

There will be as well an open challenge: if you don’t feel like building any of the other challenges, you are free to combine all available elements to create innovative solutions for the city!

Granny Alert

Challenge

How can we improve the responsiveness to emergencies of elderly people within their homes without compromising their privacy?

Provided by Stiftung Alterswohnungen

Move and Chill

Challenge

Help us to improve knowledge by measuring the utilization of movable chairs in the city.

Provided by Civil Engineering Office

Breathe!

Challenge

Empower citizens to map and understand air pollution in the city.

Provided by the community

Bicycle Parking

Challenge

Help us better understand the utilization of bicycle parking facilities.

Provided by Civil Engineering Office

Awesome Green Spaces

Challenge

Help us to improve the attractiveness of green spaces by measuring the usage of infrastructure and occupancy of public recreational spaces.

Provided by the Environmental Agency of Zurich

Powered by u-blox

Transformer Station Tub

Challenge

Help us to increase the efficiency of transformer station maintenance.

Provided by the ewz, the power supplier of Zurich

Open Challenge

Challenge

If none of the challenges fits you, you are free to combine all available elements and develop your own challenge and ideas!

Submit your idea here!

What you will find

Learning

Take the chance to learn new skills and technologies from mentors and peers!

Hardware

Plenty of electronics, sensors and other hardware to play with!

Health

We take care of you, provide healthy food and environment so you don’t to think about it! And of course, we have a safety concept.

Kids are cool

We offer a safe and fun environment for young makers (U18) who are accompanied by their parents. For kids 7 to 16 we offer a coding workshop by Logiscool.

Schedule

Sun 9

Feb

10:00-17:00	Pre-event workshop Make your own shitty addon, by Tillo Bosshart Learn to design your own electronic circuit! Join us to create your personal "shitty add-on" extension to our electronic conference badge. Bring your laptop and make sure you installed KiCad and Inkscape. Read more here	FabLab Zürich Zimmerlistrasse 6 8004 Zürich

Fri 23

Oct

	Kick-off at Zentralwäscherei Zürich (ZWZ) 🎬🚀	Neue Hard 12 8005 Zürich
17:00	Open doors
18:00	Introduction to #MakeZurich
18:15	Presentation of challenges
19:00	Team registrations and Q&A sessions with challenge stakeholders, sponsors and partners.
19:45-23:00	🍻🍸 Apéro

Sat 24

Oct

	Open Lab Week at MechArtLab	Bitwäscherei Neue Hard 12 8005 Zürich
13:00-15:00	Workshop OpenThings! - The last mile to your things, by PRiOT Already wondered how to bring your IoT device data out of the internet? Then, this hands-on fits perfectly to you. OpenThings! is a new initiative to provide you a simple way to publish your IoT data to the public, friends and even customers. Let's professionally visualize your thing on your cloud based dashboard within the time of a wink.
16:00-18:00	Workshop Shape your idea through technology & design 🚀, by brudi & co-co-co Together we work on your ideas. For which target group are you creating your solution? When is it used, and what needs will it serve? How will it benefit communities? We show you methods on how to answer these questions. By bringing in a design perspective we help you to evoke different perspectives on the challenges. Join our short but intense worksession and kickstart your project.
16:00-22:00	Open Lab Day Do you need tools or a place to work? Or simply want to hang out and chat about life, the universe and everything? The lab days are optional and available for those that need it.

Sun 25

Oct

16:00-22:00	Open Lab Day

Mon 26

Oct

16:00-22:00	Open Lab Day
16:00-18:00	Workshop UX toolkit workshop, by Francesca Sanfilippo Some useful tips to organise your team, prototyping and test with the Design Thinking method and design sprint.
19:00-22:00	Workshop Crash course: LoRaWAN and The Things Network, by Gonzalo Casas What is LoRaWAN? Think of it as WiFi for sensors! In this workshop, you will learn all about LoRaWAN, and how to develop a simple sensor that sends data to the Internet via the free/open The Things Network.

Tue 27

Oct

16:00-22:00	Open Lab Day

Wed 28

Oct

16:00-22:00	Open Lab Day

Thu29

Oct

16:00-22:00	Open Lab Day

Fri 30

Oct

	Main Event at Zentralwäscherei Zürich (ZWZ) 🐝🐱‍💻	Neue Hard 12 8005 Zürich
09:00	Open doors
10:00	Welcome session
12:00	Lunch
18:00	Dinner
21:00	Demoshow / Realtime code art feat. Echtzeit Digitale Kultur x MakeZurich by soda, pan and unlock

Sat 31

Oct

09:00	Breakfast
12:00	Lunch
14:00	Workshop for kids Code your first computer game, by Logiscool Together with dedicated coaches, kids aged 7-16 can code their first computer game using Scoolcode, Logiscool's own learning platform. In the workshop they can recognise that coding is fun, and experience their quick success, which can be a good start for growing their future interest in programming.
15:30	Final submission time!
16:00	Project presentations
18:00	Apéro

Zentralwäscherei Zürich (ZWZ)

Zentralwäscherei Zürich (ZWZ)

Neue Hard 12
8005 Zürich
Switzerland

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Register

Ready to join for a great time working together on creative solutions to our city’s problems? Register today and be part of Make Zurich 2020!

First time at a hackathon? No worries! Everyone is welcome! Check out our FAQ

The registration is totally free.

Team

Make Zurich is possible thanks to the contribution of an amazing team of individuals:

Francesca Sanfilippo

Gonzalo Casas

Marcus Cathomen

Simon Maurer

Michel Racic

Oleg Lavrovsky

Tillo Bosshart

Dirk Zugenmaier

Diego Sandoval

Yannick Weiss

Urs Marti

Alexandra Collm

Lizzie Gappe

Sandra Veiga

Juerg Wyser

Manuel Di Cerbo

Marco Foco

Raphael Rotondari

Tiago Neves

Roxana Pedano

Sponsors and Partners

Community partners