Mercé - citizen science for better urban life

A citizen science experiment in the city of Barcelona: citizens training algorithms to make urban environments more livable. The Mercè project is proposed as a new line of work that applies new machine learning techniques (one of the branches of so-called artificial intelligence) to the disciplines of urban planning, geography, sociology, economics and science. urban health to build objective knowledge and open data about our urban environments. Thus, Mercè is a citizen science experiment that aims to involve citizens in the training of an algorithm that allows us to design more livable cities. Through this experiment it is possible to translate the individual perceptions of many citizens about the habitability of cities into objective knowledge, reusable in urban planning. The relevance and innovation of the project is based on applying information and communication technologies to different transversal fields of knowledge, which have their common denominator in the city. The project develops a workflow based on public / open data and machine learning techniques to promote algorithmic transparency in data science and citizen participation with great social impact.