Owning the city: New media and citizen engagement in urban design – Lange, Waal
- “We have shown how digital media have created a number of qualitative shifts in the way publics can be engaged with organized around and act upon collective issues. The shifts mean that it has become easier for many citizens to organize themselves and take ownership of particular issues. In turn this may lead not only to new ways in which social life is organized but also to new ways of shaping the built environment.”
– As technology starts to influence urban design and the built form of our surrounding environment, with light installations, objects and real-time reflection of citizens and the space we occupy, – how can architects play a bigger role in the development of the smart city besides developing physical structures such as Hudson Yards or New Songdo to better engage the citizens and participants of the future city?
– In regards to OMA’s lecture last night could we relate the idea of ‘new ways of shaping the environment’ to their idea of reorganizing program of architectural spaces into separate ‘objects’ that compliment each other by each taking a unique form?
Rethinking, Reimagining and Remaking Smart Cities – Kitchin
- “It means putting principles into action – to translate them into practical and political outcomes. Our own endeavours have demonstrated that smart city stakeholders are open to robust exchanges and are prepared to rework initiatives and change direction, especially if we are willing to work with them and others to realise any reframing, reimagining and remaking involved…However, in my view, such critique ideally also needs to suggest alternatives – whether ideological or practical – and to support the work of other oppositional groups (such as local communities or NGOs).”
– How can these reframing, and remaking initiatives be put forth and implemented without being seen as an attempt to push the idea of ‘togetherness’ when there are people like Jane Jacobs (previous reading) that would see it as a failing and destructive structure in a city?