In the Quest of Defining Smart Digital City in Medini Iskandar Malaysia, Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia

Abstract

This paper describes our early collaborative work on holding a design challenge in discovering the emerging ideas by Malaysian students on Medini Smart City in Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia. While the masterplan of Medini Smart City is already in place, the intention of the design challenge is to recognize and to learn what would 'smart' really means to them. This implicitly contributes in strategizing and refining the Medini Smart City further to suit Malaysia's culture, values and situations so that it is in line with the generation of today. Despite sharing the outcome of the work, this paper shares the motivation of the collaboration and reflects its approach from user-centered design's perspective, and highlights how it helps in building a better smart city by understanding what people wants.