The Team
Patricia McKenna
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Patricia McKenna is the founder and President of AmbientEase (Emergent Adaptive Solutions Everywhere) Inc., exploring the rapidly evolving information landscape afforded by new, emerging, and next generation technologies. As such, McKenna is concerned with the implications of new technologies for cities, communities, and learning environments. McKenna engages with educators, learners, business, government, and local communities around use experience and unexpected possibilities for leveraging and generating new relevancies and vibrancies in 21st century information spaces for learning, living, and working.
With a focus on smart cities and learning cities, McKenna has evolved a practice and learning space consisting of workshops, courses, project initiatives, community collaborations, presentations, and works in progress for sharing at conferences and in other physical and digital spaces. Patricia holds an undergraduate arts degree from the University of New Brunswick, a Masters degree in library science from McGill University and a Doctorate in information management (with a focus on emerging technologies) from Syracuse University, iSchool. Patricia offers smart cities advisory services and is:
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The AmbientEase team is project-based and evolving, depending on the initiative(s), characterized as emergent, adaptive, and dynamic.
EmergentWe are exploring and contributing to emergent concerns, requirements, issues, challenges and opportunities related to the Internet of Things (IoT), the Internet of Cultural Things (IoCT) & Apps, the Internet of People (IoP), the Internet of Data (IoD), the Internet of Experiences, and beyond.
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AdaptiveAdaptive reuse; creative economies; urban metrics; patterns and relationships; and evolving notions of urban-ness and urbanity in smart cities are key focus areas of our work at this time and we respond to opportunities where these elements may be present.
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DynamicOur team work responds to the dynamic, as in, rapidly changing and often complex nature of challenges and opportunities in cities, communities, and regions. Dimensions of smart cities as well as Looking at smart cities are currently being explored as ways of fostering greater awareness, participation, and understanding.
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