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Presentation by Manu Fernández at Re:Work Cities London, 13th December. Here are my notes I prepared for the Re·Work Cities summit that was held in London. As you can see, my intervention was mostly based on my essay for Smart Citizens book, Smart cities of the future? It´s already happening, but not in the way we are being told. Three main ideas: Technology alone is not the enough and this basic premise, which seems so obvious, is not well embedded in the smart city narrative, I will explain it later. There´s no need to wait for smart cities to happen or for others to let people transform the city with their own hands. We need to raise questions and have a critical mindset on the implications of these technologies.
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SMART CITIES OF THE FUTURE?
@manufernandez
It is already happeningBut not in the way we are being told
December 2013
MANU FERNÁNDEZ
Researcher and urban policy consultant for the last
12 years
Always involved in projects relating to local
sustainability and analysis of urban economies.
I am currently working as a freelance in three areas:
• transitional uses of vacant and underused spaces
the intersection of digital and social perspectives of
bottom-up smart cities
• the link between the digital society and the
innovation economy.
www.ciudadesaescalahumana.org
www.humanscalecity.org
@manufernandez
URBAN STRATEGIST
SMART CITIZENS
MY PROBLEM WITH SMART CITIES
TECHNOLOGY ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH
NO NEED TO WAIT
TIME TO RAISE QUESTIONS
SMART CITIES OF THE FUTURE?
It is already happeningBut not in the way we are being told
PICTURE SOURCE:: http://www.globalnerdy.com
TECHNOLOGY ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH
PICTURE SOURCE:: Dhiru Thadani (author)
Cities are still about design, interaction, regulation, politics, public life, economy,
collective action,...
PICTURE SOURCE: http://datenform.de/map.html
NO NEED TO WAIT
NO NEED TO WAIT FOR OTHERS
NO NEED TO WAIT FOR PROMISES YET TO COME
TIME TO RAISE QUESTIONS
WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR IT?
WHAT IF IT GOES WRONG?
WHO IS GOING TO BENEFIT FROM IT?
WHAT KIND OF CITIZENSHIP ARE WE BUILDING?
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM URBAN STUDIES FIELDS?
WILL ALGORITHMS BE THE NEW MAYORS?
SMART CITIES NARRATIVE AND ITS DISCONTENTS
PICTURE SOURCE: http://www.flickr.com/photos/96366213@N00/81766439/
THINGS ABOUT SMART CITIES THAT MAKE ME NERVOUS
Data neutrality
Predictive analytics
Depolitization
Quantitative urbanism
Efficiency
Simplification
CentralizedCities from scratch
City ≠ City council
Sustainability
CONTROL-ROOM MODEL
AFTER ALL, WERE SMART CITIES JUST ABOUT THIS?
CULTURAL SHIFT TOWARDS A SHARING SOCIETY
THE CITY AS NETWORK AND COMMONS
THE WAY WE SHARE DATA
THE WAY WE CREATE SOLUTIONS
THE WAY WE CREATE SOLUTIONS
PICTURE SOURCE: http://opengov.newschallenge.orghttp://aliciarouault.com/digitalmatatus/
THE WAY WE SHARE KNOWLEDGE
PICTURE SOURCE: http://we-make-money-not-art.com
THE WAY WE DESIGN PUBLIC SERVICES
THE WAY WE LINK TECH, ART AND PUBLIC LIFE
PICTURE SOURCE: http://georgezisiadis.com/#/pulse-of-the-city/
THE WAY WE SHAPE AND ENJOY OUR CITIES
PICTURE SOURCE: http://medialab-prado.es
XTHE INTELLIGENCE OF A CITY IS ON THE STREETS
“Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is
working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the
safety of the streets and the freedom of the city. It is a complex
order. Its essence is intricacy of sidewalk use, bringing with it a
constant succession of eyes. This order is all composed of
movement and change, and although it is life, not art, we may
fancifully call it the art form of the city (…).”
THE HIDDEN VARIABLES OF URBAN EQUATION
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of
Great American Cities
CITIZENS WON´T BUY INTO SMART CITIES UNLESS THEY FIND THEM MEANINGFUL
DNA OF SMART CITIES POTENTIAL: EMPOWERING PEOPLE
SMART CITY INDUSTRY, CONSIDER INTERACTION DESIGN
FINAL REMARKS
TIME TO THINK IN TERMS OF SERVICES, NOT PRODUCTS
DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION AS THE SMART CITY IN PRACTICE
EXPLORE THE CONSEQUENCES FOR PEOPLE
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE
THANKS!www.ciudadesaescalahumana.org
www.humanscalecity.org
@manufernandez
