22 September 2021
Viktoria Hotel
Europe/Oslo timezone

Experimenting in the Smart City

22 Sep 2021, 15:00
30m
Viktoria Hotel

Viktoria Hotel

Skansegata 1, 4006 Stavanger
From governing to living the smart city Parallel session 3

Speaker

Dr Ramon Ribera-Fumaz (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

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.

GDPR complianced Yes
I am willing and able to travel to Norway unless Covid-19 restrictions prevent me from traveling to Stavanger. YES

Primary authors

Dr Ramon Ribera-Fumaz (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Paco González (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Paolo Cardullo (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

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