From Environments to Environmentality – Gabrys
- “The importance of the everyday as a site of intervention signals the ways in which smart city proposals are generative of distinct ways of life, where a “micro- physics of power” is performed through everyday scenarios.40 Governance and the managing of urban milieus occur not through delineations of territory but through enabling the connections and processes of everyday urban inhabitations within computational modalities.”
– How will the CSC design proposal respond to the inevitable fact that not all humans or smart citizens will ‘participate’ or respond accordingly with what the expected dialogue predicts?
– Does the CSC proposal suggest that it can adapt to changes in human responses to a particular environment, or that it is not specific to a certain typology of ‘smart citizen’ ?
What’s so smart about the Smart Citizen? – Mark Shepard and Antonina Simeti
- Things get murkier when we consider whom we are referring to as Smart Citizens. Does leveraging social media and networked information systems really broaden participation, or merely provide another platform for proactive citizens already more likely to engage within the community? What barriers to entry – cultural appropriateness, technological fluency – are embedded in the design and implementation of these citizen – led initiatives? What are the incentives to opt-in?
– Is the “smart citizen” in this case an example of what was mentioned in Gabrys’ reading of bio-political management? ” ways of life are situated, emergent, and practiced through spatial and material power relations” – social media?