Citizen’s Right to the Digital City

Foth, Marcus; Brynskov, Martin; Ojala, Timo

doi:10.1007/978-981-287-919-6

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“…In this case, the resurrection of the payphone was increasingly imagined as a 'cultural sentinel,' visibly positioned in public space, able to play neighborhood audio stories, and reinforce local identity. Broader movements like tactical urbanism (Lydon et al, 2015) and the 'right to the city' (Foth et al, 2015) increasingly embrace local designs through their own (often confrontational) stances toward top-down power centers of urban planning. In some cases, single design 'Things' have been the center of these movements -such as the parklet-from-parking spot takeovers that spread across cities through 'Parking Day' events (including as part of opensource urbanism by Bradley, 2015).…”

Section: An Aging Payphonementioning

confidence: 99%

Urban furniture in digital placemaking: Adapting a storytelling payphone across Los Angeles

Stokes

Bar

Baumann³

et al. 2021

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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A growing number of urban practitioners and scholars are interested in using digital storytelling to strengthen neighborhood connections to shared culture and build a coherent sense of place. This article contributes to this discussion by investigating how ‘urban furniture’ can sustain social capacity for digital placemaking. While traditional ‘urban furniture’ in public space is purely physical, digital-physical hybrids are emerging, from benches that tell stories to bus stops that play videos. This extended case follows the travels of an Afrofuturist piece of urban furniture: a community-hacked payphone called Sankofa Red. Our analysis triangulates findings across three installations to show how placemaking can be sustained as a social process: as part of a successful makeover of a community plaza, featured in a neighborhood history game, and in an art exhibition on race and ethnicity. We identify promising practices to adapt urban furniture and retain design collectives beyond a single placemaking installation. As a way for cities to build capacity, we propose that rotating one kind urban furniture (e.g., payphones) across neighborhoods can build the social capacity for placemaking around a shared technical foundation, while still prioritizing local needs and culture.

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Section: An Aging Payphonementioning

confidence: 99%

Urban furniture in digital placemaking: Adapting a storytelling payphone across Los Angeles

Stokes

Bar

Baumann³

et al. 2021

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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“…(Kitchin et al, 2018;Cardullo et al, 2019). Similarly, Foth et al (2015) want to "critique the established hegemony of the engineering and technologycentric epistemology embedded in any one proprietary smart city vision." A perspective of "the city as a license" focusing on rights also matches with a broader general discourse emerging around platformization and smart cities.…”

Section: Algorithmic Regulation and The City As A Licensementioning

confidence: 99%

The City as a License. Implications of Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers for Urban Governance

Gloerich

Waal

Ferri

et al. 2020

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) such as blockchain have in recent years been presented as a new general-purpose technology that could underlie many aspects of social and economic life, including civics and urban governance. In an urban context, over the past few years, a number of actors have started to explore the application of distributed ledgers in amongst others smart city services as well as in blockchain for good and urban commons-projects. DLTs could become the administrative backbones of such projects, as the technology can be set-up as an administration, management and allocation tool for urban resources. With the addition of smart contracts, DLTs can further automate the processing of data and execution of decisions in urban resource management through algorithmic governance. This means that the technological set-up and design of such DLT based systems could have large implications for the ways urban resources are governed. Positive contributions are expected to be made toward (local) democracy, transparent governance, decentralization, and citizen empowerment. We argue that to fully scrutinize the implications for urban governance, a critical analysis of distributed ledger technologies is necessary. In this contribution, we explore the lens of “the city as a license” for such a critical analysis. Through this lens, the city is framed as a “rights-management-system,” operated through DLT technology. Building upon Lefebvrian a right to the city-discourses, such an approach allows to ask important questions about the implications of DLTs for the democratic governance of cities in an open, inclusive urban culture. Through a technological exploration combined with a speculative approach, and guided by our interest in the rights management and agency that blockchains have been claimed to provide to their users, we trace six important issues: quantification; blockchain as a normative apparatus; the complicated relationship between transparency and accountability; the centralizing forces that act on blockchains; the degrees to which algorithmic rules can embed democratic law-making and enforcing; and finally, the limits of blockchain's trustlessness.

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“…From an ethical standpoint it is clear that an expansion of citizens' rights to the city is needed to take into account its digital layers. The possibility of the citizens to reuse or profit from their data or to prevent completely to be tracked by the authorities are indeed rights of the digital city that should be recognised [26].…”

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“…The enhanced mobility of Phyllis is an echo of the acrobatic practices of parkour and free running but extended to all the population [87]. The Internet of Citizens (IoC) implemented in Euphemia, finally, is a sort of technological incarnation of the "city speech" theorised by Saskia Sassen [26].…”

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Transurbanism

Thibault

Buruk

Buruk³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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The current trends related to 'smart cities' are bringing the cityscapes of movies such as Blade Runner and games such as Cyberpunk 2077 closer to our immediate reality. The question of what will the cities of the future look like is at the heart of urban studies. In parallel, a similar question is posed by (trans)humanists about the future of humanity and its possible technological enhancements. However, (trans)humanity and future cities are defined in a bi-directional dependency. Therefore, we have to answer the questions of future humans and cities simultaneously. This paper maps several ways of interacting between transhuman communities and smart cities to understand their possible effects on governing, design and society at large resulting in a framework and a series of speculative pastiche scenarios that will work as a cautionary tale and an inspirational blueprint for imagining future urbanity. CCS Concepts •Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models; User models; Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms; Ubiquitous and mobile computing theory, concepts and paradigms;

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Citizen’s Right to the Digital City

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Urban furniture in digital placemaking: Adapting a storytelling payphone across Los Angeles

Urban furniture in digital placemaking: Adapting a storytelling payphone across Los Angeles

The City as a License. Implications of Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers for Urban Governance

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