Sensing the Smart Citizen – Jiaqi

From Environments to Environmentality

  • Gabrys mentioned citizens should not denounce theses projects and proposals as tools of control, neither the governance, but to understand the ways how to distribute computational materializations. It ’s difficult to do with that, but how about another way to remake citizens in smart city – making citizens themselves to be the governance. Is that possible?
  • When technique become to the new environment in our world replacing the natural environment, for example, when you walk on the street, your attentions no more focus on the surrounding people, trees or birds but the smartphones, smart- screens, what do you sense the real nature? Is this issue would become to be a psychological problem of citizens?

What’s so smart about the Smart Citizen?

  • Top- bottom is to say a smart city in a box. How about bottom- top? could we call this way as a smart city on a tree? The author seems to say no matter which way to build a smart city, the technology is not the key. But what is?