Prototyping the Idiotic City
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Goldsmiths –– RHB 137
Tues 5 June 2018 @ 9:30AM –> 4:30PM
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Participants
Alison Powell, London School of Economics
Gyorgyi Galik, Royal College of Art, London/Umbrellium
Jennifer Gabrys, University of Goldsmiths
Mike Michael, University of Exeter
Noortje Marres, CIM, University of Warwik
Ola Söderström, University of Neuchâtel
Uriel Fogué, ESAYA, UEM
CISP & Fondecyt N°1180062
Abstract
In recent years, the notion of smartness has gained pervasive prominence
in various spheres of social life and the ways that cities can be known,
planned and governed. Data collection is now enabled through embedded
sensors and devices in urban space, particularly in the development of
the Internet of Things. Autonomous mobility and other smart city
initiatives make cities appear to be manageable and controllable in
(near) real-time through smart analytics and dashboards. In developing
these innovations, new modes of laboratorization and experimentation are
deployed in order to test technological ‘solutions’. Against the grain
of a sterile technotopia proposed by the smart city, we want to
problematize the various kinds of smartness that are programmed and
inscribed into this debate, as well as question the newness of it. What,
in other words, are the failures and breakdowns that slow down and
counteract the supposed smoothness of the smart city? Through a one-day
workshop we invite researchers to creatively incorporate the “murmur of
the idiot” (Stengers, 2005) into situations in which new relationships
with our ‘smart’ surroundingscan be built. During the event, each
presenter discusses an idiotic object or situation. Each speaker,
together with the audience, will then try to further the idiocy of other
speakers cases.
For more information see the attached.
Organising committee*
-Michael Guggenheim (Goldsmiths, University of London)
-Martin Tironi (School of Design, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
-Liam Healy (Goldsmiths, University of London)
-Fabian Namberger (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Event is free, please register here:
https://idiotic-cities.eventbrite.co.uk
Program:
9.30 Introduction: Martin Tironi
09.50-11.10 (chair: Michael Guggenheim)
Mike Michael: Toward the Untoward: Idiocy, Multiplicity and The London
Fatberg
Gyorgyi Galik: If We Are So Smart, Then Why Aren't We Healthier?
11.30-12.50 (chair Alex Wilkie)
Jennifer Gabrys: The Participatory Platform in the Idiotic City
Alison Powell: The Unknowable City. A New Ethics of Sense
12.50-1.50 lunch
1.50-3.10 (chair: Marsha Rosengarten)
Noortje Marres: Title TBC
Uriel Fogué: The Lazy Reading Club: Prototyping the Idiotic City in
Cushioned Infrastructures
3.30-4.10 (chair: Martin Tironi)
Ola Söderström: A Schizo-Analysis of the Smart City
4.10 Final comments: Liam Healy, Fabian Namberger
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