Dave Troy: Social maps that reveal a city's intersections — and separations

Translator: Maite Clausell Reviewer: Carla Pavia Fayos

When we think about mapping cities,

Quan pensem en crear mapes de ciutats

we tend to think about roads and streets and buildings,

tendim a pensar en carreteres, carrers y edificis

and the settlement narrative that led to their creation,

i la narrativa de liquidació que portà la seva creació,

or you might think about the bold vision of an urban designer,

o potser penseu en l’audaç visió d’un dissenyador urbà,

but there's other ways to think about mapping cities

però hi ha més formes de pensar en crear

and how they got to be made.

mapes de ciutats i com s’han de fer.

Today, I want to show you a new kind of map.

Avui, vull ensenyar-vos un nou tipus de mapa.

This is not a geographic map.

Aquet no és un mapa geogràfic.

This is a map of the relationships between people in my hometown

Aquet és un mapa de relacions entre les persones del meu poble,

of Baltimore, Maryland,

Baltimore, Maryland.

and what you can see here is that each dot represents a person,

I el que podeu veure ací és que cada punt representa a una persona,

each line represents a relationship between those people,

cada línia representa una relació entre eixes persones

and each color represents a community within the network.

i cada color representa una comunitat dins de xarxa.

Now, I'm here on the green side, down on the far right where the geeks are,

Jo estic al costat de color verd, baix a la dreta, on estan els geeks

and TEDx also is down on the far right. (Laughter)

i TEDx també està baix a la dreta. (Rialles)

Now, on the other side of the network,

A l’altre costat de la xarxa

you tend to have primarily African-American and Latino folks

solen estar principalment els afroamericans i llatinoamericans

who are really concerned about somewhat different things than the geeks are,

que solen estar preocupats per coses diferents de les que estan els geeks.

but just to give some sense,

Perque us feu una idea

the green part of the network we call Smalltimore,

a la part verda de la xarxa els que l’habitem

for those of us that inhabit it,

l’anomenem Smalltimore

because it seems as though we're living in a very small town.

ja que ens sembla que vivim en un poble molt menut.

We see the same people over and over again,

Sempre veiem a la mateixa gent

but that's because we're not really exploring

però això és perquè en veritat no explorem

the full depth and breadth of the city.

la profunditat i l’amplada de la ciutat.

On the other end of the network,

A l’altre costat de la xarxa

you have folks who are interested in things like hip-hop music

hi ha gent interessada en coses com la música hip-hop

and they even identify with living in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area

i que s’identifiquen amb la vida

en l’àrea de WashingtonDC/Maryland/Virgina

over, say, the Baltimore city designation proper.

més que amb la del propi Baltimore.

But in the middle, you see that there's

Però al centre, es veu

something that connects the two communities together,

que alguna cosa connecta a les dues comunitats,

and that's sports.

els esports.

We have the Baltimore Orioles, the Baltimore Ravens football team,

Tenim als Oriols de Baltimore, als Baltimore Ravens,

Michael Phelps, the Olympian.

a Michael Phelps, l’olímpic.

Under Armour, you may have heard of, is a Baltimore company,

Under Armour, deveu conèixer-la, és una empresa de Baltimore.

and that community of sports acts as the only bridge

I aquesta comunitat dels esports actua com l’únic pont

between these two ends of the network.

entre aquestes dues puntes de la xarxa.

Let's take a look at San Francisco.

Si mirem San Francisco,

You see something a little bit different happening in San Francisco.

podem veure que alguna cosa diferent passa a San Francisco.

On the one hand, you do have the media, politics and news lobe

Per una banda, tenim lòbul dels mitjans de comunicació, política i noticies

that tends to exist in Baltimore and other cities,

que tendeix a existir a Baltimore i altres ciutats

but you also have this very predominant group

però també hi ha un grup molt predominant

of geeks and techies that are sort of taking over the top half of the network,

de geeks i techies que son els que ocupen més de la meitat de la xarxa

and there's even a group that's so distinct and clear

i hi ha inclús un grup molt distint i clar

that we can identify it as Twitter employees,

que identifiquem com als treballadors de Twitter,

next to the geeks, in between the gamers and the geeks,

al costat dels geeks, en mig dels gamers i dels geeks

at the opposite end of the hip-hop spectrum.

just a l’altra punta de l’espectre del hip-hop.

So you can see, though,

Però també es pot veure

that the tensions that we've heard about in San Francisco

que les tensions que sentim sobre San Francisco

in terms of people being concerned about gentrification

en quant a la gent que està preocupada per la gentrificació

and all the new tech companies that are bringing new wealth

i les companyies tecnològiques que porten una nova riquesa

and settlement into the city are real,

i assentament a la ciutat són reals,

and you can actually see that documented here.

i es pot veure que estan documentades aquí.

You can see the LGBT community

Es pot veure que la comunitat LGBT

is not really getting along with the geek community that well,

no es porta be amb la comunitat geek,

the arts community, the music community.

la comunitat d’art i la comunitat de música.

And so it leads to things like this.

I això porta a coses com aquestes.

["Evict Twitter"]

[“Esborreu Twitter”]

Somebody sent me this photo a few weeks ago,

Vaig rebre esta foto fa unes setmanes

and it shows what is happening on the ground in San Francisco,

i mostra el que està passant a San Francisco

and I think you can actually try to understand that

i crec que realment ho podeu entendre

through looking at a map like this.

al veure un mapa com aquest.

Let's take a look at Rio de Janeiro.

Donem un cop d’ull a Rio de Janeiro.

I spent the last few weeks gathering data about Rio,

He passat unes setmanes recollint dades sobre Rio

and one of the things that stood out to me about this city

i una de les coses que destaca en aquesta ciutat

is that everything's really kind of mixed up.

es que tot està mesclat d’alguna manera.

It's a very heterogenous city in a way that Baltimore or San Francisco is not.

És una ciutat molt heterogènia, no com Baltimore o San Francisco.

You still have the lobe of people involved

Així i tot està el lòbul de gent interessada en

with government, newspapers, politics, columnists.

govern, periòdics, polítics, columnistes.

TEDxRio is down in the lower right, right next to bloggers and writers.

TEDxRio està baix a la dreta, al costat dels bloggers i els escriptors.

But then you also have this tremendous diversity of people

Però també hi ha una gran diversitat de gent

that are interested in different kinds of music.

interessada en diferents tipus de musica.

Even Justin Bieber fans are represented here.

Es mostren inclús els fans de Justin Bieber.

Other boy bands, country singers,

Altres bandes, cantants country,

gospel music, funk and rap and stand-up comedy,

musica gospel, funk, rap i la comèdia,

and there's even a whole section around drugs and jokes.

inclús hi ha una secció sencera de drogues i bromes.

How cool is that?

Què us pareix?

And then the Flamengo football team is also represented here.

I l’equip de futbol Flamengo també esta representat aquí.

So you have that same kind of spread

Hi ha la mateixa diversitat

of sports and civics and the arts and music,

d’esports, educació cívica, i de les arts i la música

but it's represented in a very different way,

però està representat de forma diferent

and I think that maybe fits with our understanding of Rio

i crec que s’adapta al que entenem de Rio

as being a very multicultural, musically diverse city.

com una ciutat multicultural i amb música diversa.

So we have all this data.

Així que tenim aquestes dades.

It's an incredibly rich set of data that we have about cities now,

És un conjunt de dades increïble el que tenim sobre les ciutats

maybe even richer than any data set that we've ever had before.

potser millor que qualsevol conjunt de dades que hagem tingut.

So what can we do with it?

Què podem fer?

Well, I think the first thing that we can try to understand

Crec que el primer és intentar entendre que

is that segregation is a social construct.

la segregació és una construcció social.

It's something that we choose to do, and we could choose not to do it,

És una cosa que triem si volem fer, i que podem triar no fer

and if you kind of think about it,

i si ho pensen

what we're doing with this data is aiming a space telescope at a city

el que fem amb aquestes dades és apuntar un telescopi a una ciutat

and looking at it as if was a giant high school cafeteria,

i mirar-la com si fos la cafeteria gegant d’un institut

and seeing how everybody arranged themselves in a seating chart.

i veure com tothom ha planejat una forma ordenada de seure.

Well maybe it's time to shake up the seating chart a little bit.

Potser és hora de sacsejar-la un poc.

The other thing that we start to realize

També comencem a adonar-nos

is that race is a really poor proxy for diversity.

de que la raça és un pobre substitut de la diversitat.

We've got people represented from all different types of races

Hi ha gent de tot tipus de races representades

across the entire map here --

per tot arreu del mapa.

only looking at race

Mirar nomes la raça

doesn't really contribute to our development of diversity.

no contribueix al desenvolupament de la diversitat.

So if we're trying to use diversity

Si tractem d’usar la diversitat

as a way to tackle some of our more intractable problems,

com una mena de fer front als nostres problemes més intractables

we need to start to think about diversity in a new way.

hem de començar a pensar sobre la diversitat de forma diferent.

And lastly, we have the ability to create

Finalment, tenim l’habilitat de crear

interventions to start to reshape our cities in a new way,

intervencions per començar a canviar la forma de les nostres ciutats

and I believe that if we have that capability,

i crec que si tenim aquesta capacitat

we may even bear some responsibility to do so.

tenim la responsabilitat de fer-ho.

So what is a city?

Què és una ciutat?

I think some might say that it is

Alguns diran que és

a geographical area or a collection of streets and buildings,

una àrea geogràfica o un conjunt de carrers i edificis

but I believe that a city is the sum of the relationships

però jo crec que és la suma de les relacions

of the people that live there,

de la gent que l’habita

and I believe that if we can start to document those relationships in a real way

i crec que si comencem a documentar les relacions

then maybe we have a real shot

potser tenim l’oportunitat

at creating those kinds of cities that we'd like to have.

de crear el tipus de ciutat que ens agradaria tenir.

Thank you.

Gràcies.

(Applause)

(Aplaudiments)