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Smart Cities panel explores the 'digital city'
26 July 2017
The panel brought community groups, academics and practitioners into dialogue about changing digital city systems
The Engineering Exchange hosted a panel and a on the theme 鈥楽mart Cities鈥�.听The fully booked panel, called POWER TO THE CITIZEN! took place at BASE King鈥檚 Cross in July 2017. You can watch a video of the event below.
Speakers included architect Lucy Bullivant (see听), Adam Dennett from the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (), Steven Lorimer from the GLA, Ava Fatah gen. Schieck from UCL鈥檚 Bartlett School of Architecture () and听Nicolas Fonty from听.
The event aimed to explore the changing听ways in which citizens听define and engage with digital city systems. This no longer lies exclusively in the hands of architects, designers, engineers, computer scientists听and urban planners. Instead, open-source tools and open-data platforms are opening up new collaborative opportunities for citizen participation.听The panel had two aims: understanding the challenges of engaging in this new paradigm; and with this knowledge, identifying new collaborative mechanisms for citizen-led digital city making.
The event was organised in partnership with the听Institute for Digital Innovation in the Built Environment, UCL听听and the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
The project collaborators will听be releasing a manifesto/call to action based on the panel discussion. Please check back for updates. This event and associated outputs were supported by the UCL听听蹿耻苍诲.