The workshop will consist of academics from across the disciplines to critically analyse why the current socio-technical transformations, such as the expansion of social networks and the smart city, should not necessarily be understood as a proxy of ‘social capital’ for a better urban governance. Framed in the context of a society heavily influenced by the promises of Smart Cities, Big Data, smart devices etc., a cross-disciplinary analysis will discuss the side-effects and tensions between being online 24/7 and the subtle notion of #Unplugging, conceived as a rare privilege that only a few members of hyper-connected societies can attain.

1. #Unplugging
Beyond Hyper Connected Societies
www.unplugging.eu
Dr Igor Calzada MBA
PostDoctoral Research Fellow
Future of Cities-COMPAS & Ikerbasque
University of Oxford
http://www.igorcalzada.com
igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk
@icalzada
Dr Cristobal Cobo
Research Fellow
OII Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/cobo
cristobal.cobo@oii.ox.ac.uk
@cristobalcobo
TORCH The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/unplugging
Oxford (UK), 20th June 2014

3. < OUTLINE >
13:00-13:10 Reception (with Coffee)
13:10-13:40 Part I: INTRODUCTION (30min)
1.- Research Question: Why #Unplugging? Subtle notion & novel trend
2.- Aims & Methodology
3.- #Unplugging Decalogue
13:40-14:15 Part II: OPEN DISCUSSION. Movies (35 min)
14:15-14:30 Coffee-break
14:30-15:15 Part III: TEAM BUILDING. Roadmap (45min)
1.- Discussion
2.- Conclusion
15:15-16:00 Part IV: WRAPPING UP (45min)

4. #HER

5. Part I
Introduction

6. 1
Research
Question

7. 2
Aims &
Methodology

8. 3
#Unplugging
Decalogue

9. 1 digital & social divide

10. Did you hear a click? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRBcP6MmE8g

11. • Plugging vs Unplugging
• High > Low
• Who?
• Millenials
• Digital Natives

12. 2
Individualism vs Colectivism

13. Her Official Trailer #2 (2013) - Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson Movie HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTzCSDOM0JQ

14. • Networked Individualism
• Alone together
• NeoCommunitarianism

15. 3
Socio-Technical Systems

16. Songdo, South Corea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOHA_Fz8j2
M

17. • Intensify social fragmentation
• Hardware > Software
• Overcome the separation between
designers and users
• Artificial > Embedded

18. 4
Governance
TopDown
BottomUp

19. Smart citizens make smart cities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCptJm9_SIw
Cuba's DIY Inventions from 30 Years of Isolation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-XS4aueDUg
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) http://movieclips.com/Dqsmx-2001-a-space-odyssey-movie-hal-9000/

20. • Master Plan > Emergence
• Top Down > Bottom Up
• Smart Cities > FabLabs, Hacking the City

21. 5
Information

22. Digital Junkie - Information Overload https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxfGuZ5Bsgk
Google Analytics In Real Life - Site Search
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbtf1oyNg-8

23. • Scarcity > Overload
• Public open access

24. 6
Social Networking
vs
Capital

25. I Forgot My Phone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINa46HeWg8
The Social Network The Social Network http://movieclips.com/QRFrt-the-social-network-movie-putting-it-online
Look up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY#t=51

26. • Imperative to be connected
• Trusting interactions
• Communihood: Hybrid place-based
power relational of ICTs

27. 7 Context Collapse

28. • Fragmented > Contextualized
• Private and Public life
• Physical environments

29. Paper vs Ipad or tablet .Funny commercial. Emma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwAuTbx3xKE

30. 8 Ambient Commons

31. • Infrastructure-centered > People-centered
• DIY for urban design
• People attention matter more than ever
• Rethink attention (McCullough)
• Manage of the sum of the socio-political
decision-making processes

32. Strange Useless Technology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUx27jWoZ0M
Amsterdam Smart City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FinLi65Xtik

33. 9 Socio-political processes

34. • Cities > urban spaces in permanent
conflicts of interest (Harvey)
• Smart city > self-promotional examples
• Being digitally connected > is not
guarantee of being smart
• Anticipated and invigorated as free and
emergent processes rather than
controlled and normative

35. Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Og60e0zyu8
1984 (1984)
Victory is Not Possible
http://movieclips.com/mgPV-1984-movie-victory-is-not-possible/

36. 10 Political economy

37. • Who will benefit from the Smart City?
•We are questioning the property,
benefits and investments in cities
• Is unplugged profitable or non-profitable?
• Private + Finance > Communitarian +
Socio-Econ.
• Global North > Global South

38. What is Ushahidi? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhT3co2qNAA

39. Part II
Open Discussion
Movies

40. Part III
Team Building
Roadmap

41. TopDo
wn
Botto
mUp

42. #UNPLUGGING
the
SMART
CITY
1
WHO
2
HOW
3
SYSTEMS
4
GOVERNANCE
5
INFORMATION
6
FOCUS
7
SPACE
8
DESIGN
9
SOCIO-POLITICAL
PROCESSES
10
POLITICAL
ECONOMY
Social and
Digital Divide
Individualism
vs
Collectivism
Socio vs
Technical
Systems
Master
Planning vs
Emergent Plan
and Top Down
vs. Bottom Up
Overload vs
Scarcity
Social
Networking
vs Social
Capital
Context
Collapse
Ambient
Commons
Control &
Normative vs
Free &
Emergent
Profitable vs
Non-
Profitable
From High Individualism
vs Collectivism
Artificial Top Down and
Master
Planning
Controlled Interaction Fragmented Infrastructure-centered
Control and
Normative
Private and
Financially
To Low Networked
Individualism
or Neo-communitaria
nism
Integrated Bottom Up
and Emergent
Plan
Open Data Trust Contextualized People-centered
Free and
Emergent
Communitaria
n and Socio-economical

43. Part IV
Wrapping Up

44. Thanks for participating
Dr Igor Calzada MBA & Dr Cristobal Cobo
http://www.unplugging.eu
http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/unplugging