Program Earth: Chapter 7, Citizen Sensing in the Smart and Sustainable City: From Environments to Environmentality – Jennifer Gabrys
- Gabrys suggest using ubiquitous and automated computerized technologies in a way in which it is used to change the environmentality of or spaces and urban fabric. How can these, or can these technologies begin to shape the social conditions within modern cities, such as the poor or lower class being subjected to the slums?
- Gabrys states “Code is also not singularly written or deployed but may be a hodgepodge pf just-effective-enough script written by multiple actors and running in momentarily viable ways on specific platforms… A change to and element of the code, hardware, or interoperability with other devices may shift the program and it’s effects.” (Page 198) What is, or is there an example of where this has happened?
What’s so smart about the Smart Citizen? – Mark Shepard and Antonina Simeti
- The smart citizen seems like a more justified approach to reaching a smart city instead of vice versa. Yet the essay states that it is hard to incorporate these local solutions due to the smart citizen on a larger scale, in regards to urban infrastructure. Could it be possible that smart neighborhoods or communities emerge, that can resolve their own local issues, being that our cities are already subdivided by neighborhoods?