https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/1454-digital-urbanisms-conference
The Digital Urbanisms Conference
October 11, 2019
The development of urban digital technologies and the deployment of digital information have evolved into a mutually reinforcing feedback loop between distributed sites of data production and extraction, and the planning and design of data-driven and evidence-based landscapes. Mobile social media, networks of sensors, and the ecology of connected devices termed the “Internet of Things,” among others, constitute infrastructures that harvest information, while advancing techniques of analysis and visualization have begun to describe and design sociopolitical and built environments in their image. Digital Urbanisms is a one-day symposium bringing together urban researchers and practitioners – planners, architects, geographers, organizers, and entrepreneurs – to take stock of the digital processes and products shaping cities, their promises, and problems, and discuss alternatives and approaches for operating within and against the uneven spaces they characterize.
Morning Session: Material, Materiel
Infrastructures: Digital Materiality
This session aims to contextualize the conference and ground discussion at the intersection of the digital and material environment and its implications. Topics include the development of urban sensors, the regulation of broadband access and usage, the ubiquity of locative media, and the changing landscape of urban mobility. It will collectively draw out critical tensions (for justice, inclusion, access, privacy, etc.) and the ways that places are designed with and through their embedded technologies.
Nerissa Moray, Associate Director, Planning & Development, Sidewalk Labs
Vinhcent Le, Technology Equity Council, The Greenlining Institute
Tara Pham, Founder and CEO, Numina Co
Mimi Sheller, Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, Professor of Sociology, Drexel University
Moderated by Malo Hutson
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