smart cities: research and civic engagement in a networked society

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@manufernandez

SMART CITIES: RESEARCH AND

to manage knowledge cities CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN A NETWORKED SOCIETY

MANU FERNÁNDEZ

As a researcher and urban policy consultant for the last ten years, I have always been involved in projects relating to local sustainability and analysis of urban economies. I am currently working as a freelance in three areas: adaptive strategies to cope with the economic crisis, the intersection of digital and social perspectives of bottom-up smart cities and, finally, the actions to boost economic revitalization in cities.

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manufer2007@gmail.com www.ciudadesaescalahumana.org @manufernandez

Advisory Board of UrbanIxD Steering Committee of Smart City Exhibition Bologna 2013

X TWO MAJOR GLOBAL TRENDS

URBANIZATION UBIQUITY

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URBANIZATION UBIQUITY

TWO MAJOR GLOBAL TRENDS

URBANIZATION UBIQUITY

WHY

WHAT

HOW?

TWO MAJOR GLOBAL TRENDS

X THE EMERGING QUANTITATIVE URBANISM

A NEW SCIENCE OF CITIES. WHAT IS WRONG HERE?

X THE DIALOGUE OF THE DEAF ON SMART CITIES

WHAT YOU SEE DEFINES WHAT YOU CARE ABOUT

Bird´s eye view / Street level view

RESEARCH ON SMART CITIES

A TEST BED WITHOUT PEOPLE?

LIVING LAB AS THE 4TH P MODEL

Public-private-people-partnership

BRING RESEARCH TO THE STREETS ASAP

City as platform

Crowdsourcing / collective intelligence

ACTION-RESEARCH

X THE INTELLIGENCE OF A CITY IS ON THE STREETS

“Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the safety of the streets and the freedom of the city. It is a complex order. Its essence is intricacy of sidewalk use, bringing with it a constant succession of eyes. This order is all composed of movement and change, and although it is life, not art, we may fancifully call it the art form of the city and liken it to the dance — not to a simple-minded precision dance with everyone kicking up at the same time, twirling in unison and bowing off en masse, but to an intricate ballet in which the individual dancers and ensembles all have distinctive parts which miraculously reinforce each other and compose an orderly whole.”

THE UNKNOWN VARIABLES OF URBAN EQUATION

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

TECHNOLOGY ALONE IS NOT THE ANSWER

MORE THAN PASSIVE DATA COLLECTORS?

Usman Haque en Surely there's a smarter approach to smart cities? We, citizens, create and recreate our cities with every step we take, every conversation we have, every nod to a neighbor, every space we inhabit, every structure we erect, every transaction we make. A smart city should help us increase these serendipitous connections. It should actively and consciously enable us to contribute to data-making (rather than being mere consumers of it), and encourage us to make far better use of data that's already around us.

Kurt Iverson en Mobile media and the strategies of urban citizenship: discipline, responsibilisation, politicisation

(...)different applications of social and mobile media technologies will have different impacts on urban life, depending on the model of governance and stategies of citizenship they embody.

ROLE OF CITIZENS IN THE DATA OCEAN

David Eaves Lies, damned lies and open data Quite the opposite. Open data will not depoliticize debate. It will force citizens, and governments, to realize how politicized data is, and always has been. THE CONFLICTS REMAIN THE SAME

RANDONESS, MAIN URBAN FEATURE

DATA NEO-POSITIVISM / TECHNO-DETERMINISM

ASESPSIS vs. POLITIZATION

Usman Haque Notes from my talk at the Open IoT Assembly, June 16-17 2012 the spectacularisation of data, revelling in complexity only so that ‘experts’ can rescue us from the cacophony: scientists, urban planners, yes, even artists

THE OPEN DATA DOPPELGÄNGER

X MODELS FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

COLLECTIVE INNOVATION LABORATORY

CIVIC INNOVATION AND INCUBATION OF NEW SERVICES

CIVIC HACKING FOR BETTER CITIES

CODERS AND CITIZENS WORKING TOGETHER

MIXING ARTS, CREATIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY

NEW PRACTICES OF CONCERTED ACTION AND CREATIVE INNOVATION

TRANSFORMATIVE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND STRONG CONNECTIONS

KNOWLEDGE + ACTIVISM

FINAL REMARKS

EARLY TESTING UNDER REAL LIFE CONDITIONS

CITY AS PLATFORM

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