Speaker
Description
In recent years, smart city strategies have increasingly incorporated urban experiments as a core part of Smart and involving citizens in it. Indeed, urban experimentation enacts new forms of governance, from top-down techno-scientifical to bottom-up participation of different stakeholders. Beyond the understanding of other contexts and shared learnings, there is a potential to co-produce future urban scenarios that tackle challenges and problems mobilizing the agency of inhabitants through experimentation. In doing so, Who decides, who does and on whom the experiment is developed is critical beyond the techno-scientific operationalization because those processes structure collective urban governance that could address local democracy and the right to the city. The presentation will explore traditions and connections between urban experimentation and participatory cities that might shed light on alternative urban futures to the corporate Smart City.
| I am willing and able to travel to Norway unless Covid-19 restrictions prevent me from traveling to Stavanger. | YES |
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| GDPR complianced | Yes |
