IBM's smart city as techno-utopian policy mobility

Wiig, Alan

doi:10.1080/13604813.2015.1016275

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“…Poleg pogosto omenjenih urbanih sprememb so teoretiki poročali tudi o razvoju pametnih mest (npr. Castells in Castells, 2010;Söderström idr., 2014;Wiig, 2015;Russo idr., 2016). To je sprožilo živahno razpravo o tem, kako urbani trendi, globalni mediji in omrežne družbe vplivajo na identiteto mest (npr.…”

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Okoljska estetika Sarajeva: mesto, ki ga oblikujejo spomini

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Zejnilović²

2017

Urbani izziv

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Okoljska estetika Sarajeva: mesto, ki ga oblikujejo spominiV članku avtorici obravnavata estetsko posebnost zdajšnjega Sarajeva in pokažeta, kako čas ustvarja družbeni odziv na vizualno kakovost prostora. Ob upoštevanju preobrazbe mestne krajine z vidika preoblikovanja identitete povojnega Sarajeva proučujeta senzorični stik ljudi z mestnim okoljem v povezavi s travmatičnimi dogodki in spreminjajočo se realnostjo, ki jo vsiljuje globalizacija. Njuna hipoteza je, da okoljsko estetiko povojnih mest določa travmatični spomin na fizično in socialno uničenje. Raziskava daje vpogled v različne teoretične razprave o spremembah vizualnega jezika in estetske kakovosti mestnega prostora v povojnem Sarajevu ter predstavi pojem urbanega spomina in njegovo vlogo pri oblikovanju estetske izkušnje v povojnih mestih. Končne ugotovitve kaže-jo, da lahko arhitekturni ostanki ali razvaline v mestnem tkivu namesto nestabilnih enot postanejo gonilo kontinuitete. Avtorici na koncu sprejmeta nedokončanost v prostoru kot pozitivno vrednoto in odstira nov pogled na igrivo eksperimentiranje, ki lahko izboljša estetsko izkušnjo toge in monotone mestne podobe.Ključne besede: estetska izkušnja, urbani spomin, vizualni jezik mesta, vrednost razvalin, vrednotena percepcija

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Okoljska estetika Sarajeva: mesto, ki ga oblikujejo spomini

Husukić¹,

Zejnilović²

2017

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“…There are resemblances between the Traffic Light Box Artworks project and the discourses in support of smart city innovations and technocratic governance (Wiig, 2015). Considering traffic light boxes as part of urban infrastructure, the rationale behind the project strikes a chord with the narratives for deploying smarter urban infrastructure.…”

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Practices and politics of collaborative urban infrastructuring: Traffic Light Box Artworks in Dublin Streets

Perng¹

2017

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Cities are transformed into sites of experimentation through large-scale smart city initiatives, but the visions and practices of establishing public, private and civic partnerships are often overshadowed by corporate interests, governance convenience and efficiency, with an overemphasis on technological innovations. Instead of relying on these partnerships, civic hacking initiatives seek to develop collaboration between programmers and community members, on the one hand, and government officials and organisations, on the other, for experimenting prototyping processes that foreground community needs. These initiatives are considered as pursuing open, inclusive and collaborative governance and is analysed through the lens of collaborative urban infrastructuring to attend to the dynamics, consequences and implications emerging from the prototyping processes.The analysis of the collaboration between Code for Ireland and Dublin City Council Beta suggests that the spatio-temporal scaling of prototypes lead to the continual and contested scaling of skills, knowledges, capabilities, organisational procedures and socio-technical arrangements. These heterogeneous scaling engenders desirable futures and future problems. The articulation and enactment of the values that attract diverse visions, viewpoints and practices into collaborative experimentation can be challenged by agonistic relationships arising from exploring practical arrangements for the mutual shaping of desirable governance procedures and the organisational expectations, obligations and constraints that are already in place. Furthermore, in the processes of scaling, there are constant dangers of enacting patriarchal stewardships and taking an all-knowing position for caring and evaluating impacts, which makes it critical to also experiment with ways of disclosing urban techno-politics that emerges continuously and in unanticipated ways.

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“…It acquired greater currency as part of IBM's Smarter Cities programme in 2010, building on a shared consensus among policy and business elites that cities needed to advance themselves further in order to appeal to inward investors, as well as seeking opportunities in the great new cities of East Asia (Cullen, 2016;Wiig, 2015). This was part of their technical consultancy offer to cities, building on the continued digital drive and the desire for efficiency in a time of global economic crisis.…”

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Interfaces and divisions in the Dublin Docklands 'Smart District'

Heaphy¹

2018

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Published as an open access pre-print on SocArXiv: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/s39b5 AbstractThe study of physical and social divisions in divided societies has long been an area of study, such as the continued usage of 'peace walls' in Belfast, hostile architecture to prevent antisocial behaviour and rough sleeping, and the securitisation of private spaces. In the context of a new drive to create a smart district, this paper looks at the relationship between smart urbanism and planning, and at the spatial and social divisions between a new 'gentrifying' and well-educated community in the Dublin Docklands and established communities in the area.The Dublin Docklands redevelopment marks a significant break from a pattern of suburbanisation and inner-city decline and repurposes part of the former port area as a city centre extension. The paper accounts for the reshaping of the Dublin Docklands as a 'smart district' in collaboration with the city authorities, based on over thirty semi-structured interviews and participant-observation at consultation events. It argues that reductive definitions of smart cities as networking technologies be reworked into broader considerations on urban technologies and the future of cities, with greater emphasis on the relationship between technologies branded as 'smart' and the material and digital manifestation of boundaries in urban form.

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IBM's smart city as techno-utopian policy mobility

Cited by 241 publications

References 26 publications

Okoljska estetika Sarajeva: mesto, ki ga oblikujejo spomini

Okoljska estetika Sarajeva: mesto, ki ga oblikujejo spomini

Practices and politics of collaborative urban infrastructuring: Traffic Light Box Artworks in Dublin Streets

Interfaces and divisions in the Dublin Docklands 'Smart District'

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