What makes a city smart cannot be defined by its technological progress alone. How do you measure the soul of a city, the kind of urbanism that Jane Jacobs fought for, with lively neighborhoods and sidewalks and meeting places that inspire meaningful interaction between their citizens?  

How can we use the "Smart City" mindset to be most beneficial to the arts and culture in our global cities? From a creative point of view, a city should not be smarter than you are. Culture is only smart if it has the ability to surprise and it manages to keep secrets.

Looking for life-hacks 

A life hack is any trick, shortcut, skill, or method that increases productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life. The term was primarily used by computer experts who suffer from information overload or those with a playful curiosity in the ways they can accelerate their workflow in ways other than programming. How can we use this way of working to explore new territory? 

Looking for getting lost  

Losing your phone/way might be the best thing happen to you to explore new ground in a smart city. 

It is the art of using smart devices while not loosing yourself, the challenge to switch between 0 and 1, the analog and the digital, the global and the local, the virtual and real life – on and off. A hand-held GPS device won't, for instance, provide a sense of community.
  Looking for the space in-between 

Born with wanderlust, excessive city walks are my preferred art practice, referring to the fact that all cities are multi-layered and unique, but nevertheless form an interacting whole – and this is also the way how Too Smart City comes together: Too much information, too much possibilities, too much photographs and film shots that, like a puzzle, only form the bigger picture when put together. 

A city is not a machine - it is an organic structure that works good enough, but is also open to the constant changes and uncertainties of real life. To end up with an other Jane Jacobs quote: