Culture | Smart City Provocations #2: What is the Smart in Smart City?
What is the Smart in Smart City?
The concept of smart cities is still vibrantly deployed in many parts of the world. Smart cities have been envisioned to enable efficient city service delivery and problem solving through sophisticated algorithms and real time data streams. Others have sought to foster more collaboration and openness by harnessing the potential of smart technologies to empower communities and mobilize change.
This conversation aims to dissect what we mean by the term 'smart city'. Questions to be explored include:
- Who is smart in a smart city?
- What are the challenges involved in trying to become a smart city?
- Can we start to redefine the smart city?
Join us for this conversation between Chaewon Ahn and Joshua Comaroff!
Date: Thursday, 16 Dec 2021
Time: 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM SGT | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CET
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About the Speakers
Chaewon Ahn is an urban researcher who studies the relationship between social systems and the built environment using urban data and analytical frameworks. She uses analytical skills to conduct data driven analysis that primarily focuses on big data, participatory data collection, spatial analysis, and social network analysis to expose persistent issues of power in urban development processes. Trained as an architect, urban designer and data visualization designer, Ahn holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Master's degree in Architecture and Urbanism from MIT. She is currently Assistant Professor in Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College.
Joshua Comaroff is Assistant Professor in Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. He was raised in Chicago, and studied literature, linguistics, and creative writing at Amherst College before joining the Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture programs at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Josh has worked for and studied under Rem Koolhaas, Rafael Moneo, Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti, Preston Scott Cohen, Luis Rojo de Castro, and David Adjaye. In 2009, Josh completed a PhD in cultural geography, writing on the subject of haunted landscapes and state power in Singapore. He has published writing in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and politics, with a focus in Asia.
About the Series
Culture | Smart City Provocations is a series of live virtual dialogues and events exploring what could and should be the role of urban cultural transformation in the future smart city. It will bring together a transregional range of experts from arts practitioners, urban planners to thought leaders and researchers to share insights and offer fresh perspectives on how culture and cities are evolving before our eyes.