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information technology: an internet of things and services
that makes urban structures and processes more efficient.
The smartness of an urban agglomeration in the standard
model mainly refers to economy, governance, mobility,
infrastructure and environment. A recent paradigm of such
a smart city, designed and constructed from scratch, is
Songdo City in South Korea.
Speakers
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 16:15–17:30
Notes on the King’s College London
10:15 Smartification of Cities robert.cowley@kcl.ac.uk
Welcome Address Juval Portugali
Thomas Hengartner Prof. Dr. Eric Gordon
Emerson College Boston
17:30–18:15 eric@elab.emerson.edu
Coffee Break
10:20
Introduction Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt
Petros Koumoutsakos 18:15–19:30 ETH Zurich
A Quantum City. hovestadt@arch.ethz.ch
Mastering the Generic
10:30–11:45 Ludger Hovestadt Prof. Dr. Juval Portugali
Finding Places. Citizen Tel Aviv University
Engagement with Data juval@post.tau.ac.il
in the Urban Context
Gesa Ziemer Prof. Dr. Gesa Ziemer
HafenCity University Hamburg
gesa.ziemer@hcu-hamburg.de
11:45–13:00
Meaningful Inefficiencies:
Designing for Democratic
Values in the Smart City
Eric Gordon
13:00–15:00
Lunch Break
15:00–16:15
Making Sense of the Smart
City’s Variety: Lessons
from China
Robert Cowley
Abstracts
Abstracts
Robert Cowley Eric Gordon
King’s College, London Emerson College, Boston
Earlier commentaries on the smart city were unavoidably What makes a city smart? The idea of the smart city is
speculative. They often critiqued corporate visions of the a modern invention – a qualifier placed on the city that
urban future, variously positioning these as technocratic, suggests a distinction from what came before it. The
dystopian, and reductive in their conceptualization of smart city suggests a move from organic growth to master
both urban space and citizenship. And yet, actual smart planned, or from chaos, unpredictability, and inefficien-
city initiatives currently emerging around the world pose cy to the promise of order, predictability, and efficiency.
an analytical challenge: they are most readily characteri- As much as it describes a particular form or technology,
zed by their heterogeneity. How, then, should we reflect the smart city is a rhetorical flourish with very particular
constructively on such a “multiple object”? I will explore implications in the internet-connected age.
this question by reflecting on the way that the smart city
concept has been mobilized in China specifically. This will This talk is about the smart city in practice. I explore the
involve a consideration of how it has been “translated” tensions between the promise of the smart city and the re-
into national policy-making, and – through the case of a alities of the bureaucratic management of human relations
particular city (Wuhan) – how local actors selectively ac- and communities. I will discuss specific interventions
commodate national policies within their own agendas, in that seek to disrupt dominant approaches to governance,
the context of an ongoing digitalization of everyday urban specifically those that push the smart city from its focus
life. As well as outlining some distinctive characteristics of on efficiency and innovation, to include the messiness
the Chinese approach to the smart city, the paper will end inherent in human relations. I will present on the case
by proposing methodological implications for studying the study of the Beta Blocks project in Boston, USA, which in-
smart city elsewhere. corporates participatory processes to co-produce policies,
and is deliberately taking the time to build relationships
with constituents, ensuring that processes are inclusive
and diverse.
Abstracts
tice that deliberately seeks to challenge the dominance of to all spheres of life including cities. The challenge, therefo-
technological efficiency in contemporary governance. re, is not to distinguish smart from dumb cities but rather
to get a better insight into, and explore the implications
of, the smartification of cities. Here we make an attempt
Ludger Hovestadt at this direction by looking at the smartification of cities
ETH Zürich from the conjunctive perspective of the notion of synergetic
inter-representation networks and information adaptation
A Quantum City. developed together with Hermann Haken.
Mastering the Generic
Gesa Ziemer
HafenCity University, Hamburg
We know the specific strengths of various cities, are aware
of their ranking, are able to discuss their density and Finding Places. Citizen
growth. But what do all cities have in common, what do we
know about the “lowest common denominator”? The “city Engagement with Data
as a species”, the “primal genetic material of the city”: this
is the subject of A Quantum City. A love letter to the city
in the Urban Context
and intellectual culture.
Contact
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Venue
ETH Zürich
Room HG E3
Rämistrasse 101
8092 Zürich
Organizers
Harald Atmanspacher, Collegium Helveticum
Petros Koumoutsakos, Collegium Helveticum and ETHZ
Registration
Since the number of participants is limited, registration is
necessary and will be processed in the order of arrival.
Please register at reservation@collegium.ethz.ch before
April 15, 2018.
Laboratorium für Transdisziplinarität
Schmelzbergstrasse 25 CH-8092 Zürich www.collegium.ethz.ch