#Unplugging the Smart City www.unplugging.eu
RE·Work Future Cities Summit
https://www.re-work.co/cities
London (UK), 5th December 2014
Dr Igor Calzada MBA Lecturer, Research Fellow & Policy Adviser
Future of Cities-COMPAS University of Oxford
http://www.igorcalzada.com/about
[email protected] @icalzada
by Dan Perjovschi
#HER
Beyond Hyper Connected Societies >
Need to Deconstruct the Smart City
By @icalzada
#UNPLUGGING (preconditions)
Being digitally connected/#plugged is no
guarantee of being smart (Evans 2002)
Technology is never neutral (Williams 1983)
#UNPLUGGING (definitions)
= Being Smartly #Plugged
Subtle notion & novel trend that merges
socially innovative off-line and on-line
interaction from a self-critical view.
#UNPLUGGING > liquid
#UNPLUGGING > networked
#UNPLUGGING > human scale
#UNPLUGGING
≠①Techno-determinism
≠①(just) Corporate-led approach
Smart City have to>could>will EVOLVE throughout
10 TRANSITIONS
#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
#UNPLUGGING
10 TRANSITIONS
>
1
WHO
1 TRANSITION: WHO
DIGITAL & SOCIAL DIVIDE
ONE > MULTIPLE
2
HOW
2 TRANSITION: HOW
INDIVIDUALISM vs COLLECTIVISM
>
NETWORKED INDIVIDUALISM
3
SYSTEMS
3 TRANSITION:
SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS
ARTIFICIAL
>
INTEGRATED
TopDown
BottomUp
4
GOVERNANCE
4 TRANSITION: GOVERNANCE
TOP-DOWN & MASTER PLANNING
>
BOTTOM-UP & EMERGENT
5 INFORMATION
5 TRANSITION: INFORMATION
SCARCITY & OVERLOAD
>
OPEN① BIG ①D②T②①?
6 FOCUS
6 TRANSITION: FOCUS
SIMPLE ①SOCI②L①NETWO‘KING①INTE‘②CTION
>
TRUST BASED SOCIAL CAPITAL
7 SPACE
CONTEXT COLLAPSE
“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*
by @DugStef
7 TRANSITION: SPACE
CONTEXT COLLAPSE
FRAGMENTED
>
CONTEXTUALIZED
8 DESIGN
AMBIENT COMMONS
8 TRANSITION: DESIGN
AMBIENT COMMONS
INFRASTRUCTURE-CENTERED
>
PEOPLE-CENTERED
9 SOCIO-POLITICAL PROCESSES
9 TRANSITION:
SOCIO-POLITICAL PROCESSES
CONTROL & NORMATIVE
>
EMERGENT & COMPLEX
10 POLITICAL ECONOMY
10 TRANSITION:
POLITICAL ECONOMY
PRIVATE & FINANCIALLY
PROFITABLE
>
COMMUNITARIAN & SOCIO-ECONOMICALLY
PROFITABLE
Should / Could we
#Unplug the Smart City ?
Can we test it? www.unplugging.eu
#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
Thanks for your attention
Dr Igor Calzada MBA
@icalzada
