#Unplugging the Smart City REWORK Future Of Cities Summit 5Dec2014 London Dr Igor Calzada University of Oxford UK
Future of Cities Summit RE·WORK 5th December in London > ‘Unplugging the Smart City’ Conference paper Dr Igor Calzada will present on 4th December in London ‘Unplugging the Smart City’ conference paper in the Future Cities Summit Re·Work as a consequence of the joint research ‘Unplugging > Beyond Hyper-Connected Societies’ funded partially by The Oxford Research Center in Humanities and the article published at the Journal of Urban Technology ‘Unplugging > Deconstructing the Smart City’. The conference will focus on an overview of the impact of being digitally connected on citizens: Technology is never neutral as Williams (1983) stated. We should identify critically how to evolve as society and human beings by keeping smartly connected rather than being self-deterministically forced to be hyper-connected. Even though some dark side effects of the technology can be identified (Ippolita, 2008), the conference aims to draw on a critical social innovation pathway as a transition towards alternative digital humanities practices for our daily life. Nevertheless, there are plenty of pending questions about this subtle notion, that the conference will clustered as #Unplugging. According to the Journal of Urban Technology, the article will be available at their website from 8th January 2015. Meanwhile, here this is the presentation I delivered today in London. To reference use this: Calzada, I. & Cobo, C. (2014) Unplugging: Deconstructing the Smart City, Journal of Urban Technology, DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2014.971535. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2014.971535 (In print)
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#Unplugging the Smart City REWORK Future Of Cities Summit 5Dec2014 London Dr Igor Calzada University of Oxford UK
- 2. #Unplugging the Smart City www.unplugging.eu Dr Igor Calzada MBA Lecturer, Research Fellow & Policy Adviser Future of Cities-COMPAS University of Oxford http://www.igorcalzada.com/about igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk @icalzada RE·Work Future Cities Summit https://www.re-work.co/cities London (UK), 5th December 2014
- 4. #HER
- 5. Beyond Hyper Connected Societies > Need to Deconstruct the Smart City
- 6. By @icalzada
- 7. #UNPLUGGING (preconditions) ༃ Being digitally connected/#plugged is no guarantee of being smart (Evans 2002) ༄ Technology is never neutral (Williams 1983)
- 8. #UNPLUGGING (definitions) ༃ = Being Smartly #Plugged ༄ Subtle notion & novel trend that merges socially innovative off-line and on-line interaction from a self-critical view.
- 11. #UNPLUGGING > human scale
- 12. #UNPLUGGING ༃≠①Techno-determinism ༄≠①(just) Corporate-led approach Smart City have to>could>will EVOLVE throughout 10 TRANSITIONS
- 13. #UNPLUGGING: + Info ༃ Calzada, I. & Cobo, C. (2014) Unplugging: Deconstructing the Smart City, Journal of Urban Technology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2014.971535 ༄ The Oxford Research Centre in Humanities ༃ www.unplugging.eu
- 15. 1 WHO
- 16. 1 TRANSITION: WHO DIGITAL & SOCIAL DIVIDE ONE > MULTIPLE
- 17. 2 HOW
- 18. 2 TRANSITION: HOW INDIVIDUALISM vs COLLECTIVISM > NETWORKED INDIVIDUALISM
- 19. 3 SYSTEMS
- 20. 3 TRANSITION: SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS ARTIFICIAL > INTEGRATED
- 21. TopDown BottomUp 4 GOVERNANCE
- 22. 4 TRANSITION: GOVERNANCE TOP-DOWN & MASTER PLANNING > BOTTOM-UP & EMERGENT
- 23. 5 INFORMATION
- 24. 5 TRANSITION: INFORMATION SCARCITY & OVERLOAD > OPEN①͚BIG͛①D②T②①?
- 25. 6 FOCUS
- 26. 6 TRANSITION: FOCUS ͚SIMPLE͛①SOCI②L①NETWO‘KING①INTE‘②CTION > TRUST BASED SOCIAL CAPITAL
- 27. 7 SPACE “I don't want to run the risk of having a confrontation in real life so if I have it on Facebook they can take it in, deal with it themselves, and then it's over and done with and I never had to say anything.” – Robert* CONTEXT COLLAPSE by @DugStef
- 28. 7 TRANSITION: SPACE CONTEXT COLLAPSE FRAGMENTED > CONTEXTUALIZED
- 29. 8 DESIGN AMBIENT COMMONS
- 30. 8 TRANSITION: DESIGN AMBIENT COMMONS INFRASTRUCTURE-CENTERED > PEOPLE-CENTERED
- 32. 9 TRANSITION: SOCIO-POLITICAL PROCESSES CONTROL & NORMATIVE > EMERGENT & COMPLEX
- 34. 10 TRANSITION: POLITICAL ECONOMY PRIVATE & FINANCIALLY PROFITABLE > COMMUNITARIAN & SOCIO-ECONOMICALLY PROFITABLE
- 35. Should / Could we #Unplug the Smart City ? Can we test it? www.unplugging.eu
- 36. #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-communitarianism Integrated Bottom Up and Emergent Plan Open Data Trust Contextualized People-centered Free and Emergent Communitarian and Socio-economical Calzada, I. & Cobo, C. (2014) Unplugging: Deconstructing the Smart City, Journal of Urban Technology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2014.971535
- 37. Thanks for your attention Dr Igor Calzada MBA @icalzada