📚 node [[smart cities]]
Smart cities
The origins of the ‘smart city’ framework lie in a project championed by the likes of IBM and Cisco to optimise urban infrastructure through digital sensors that provide a variety of technological solutions to urban planning problems.
– [[Platform socialism]]
Jathan Sadowski has shown that this movement has been underpinned by an ideology of importing entrepreneurialism into town halls to enable corporations to monetise urban spaces.
– [[Platform socialism]]
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Seoul city machine
- Saw it at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art
- Shows the tension between smart city looking after us vs controlling us
- https://vimeo.com/312092226
Links
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- public document at doc.anagora.org/smart-cities
- video call at meet.jit.si/smart-cities
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