Another City is Possible: Alternatives to the Smart City
Thursday, Nov 7, 20137:55 AMEDT
| New Museum Theater - The New Museum: 235 Bowery New York, NY
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Featuring Adam Greenfield 7:00 pm 1.5 AIA and New York State CEUs This lecture is presented by The Architectural League’s Urban Omnibus and The New Museum’s IDEAS CITY. The idea of the “smart city” enjoys considerable intellectual currency at the moment, in the popular media as well as conversations in architecture, urban planning, and local government. In this talk, Adam Greenfield will argue that these discourses offer a potentially authoritarian vision of cities under centralized, computational surveillance and control: overplanned, overdetermined, driven by the needs of enterprise. What might some more fruitful alternatives look like? How can we design urban technology that responds to our needs, demands, and desires? Above all, how might we inscribe a robust conception of the right to the city in the technological systems that will do so much to define the urban experience in the twenty-first century? Adam Greenfield is a New York City-based writer and urbanist. This talk will present material from his new pamphlet “Against the smart city” (available for purchase here), the first part of his forthcoming book The City Is Here For You To Use, which will explore the intersection of emerging networked information technologies with urban place. He is also the author of Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing; “Urban Computing and Its Discontents,” a pamphlet co-authored with Mark Shepard for The Architectural League’s Situated Technologies series; as well as two features on the League’s Urban Omnibus, “A Diagram of Occupy Sandy” and “Frameworks for Citizen Responsiveness: Towards a Read/Write Urbanism.” Tickets Tickets are free for Architectural League and New Museum members; $8 for non-members. League members may reserve a ticket by e-mailing {encode="[email protected]" title="[email protected]"}. New Museum members may reserve tickets through the museum's ticket page. Non-members may purchase tickets here. Click here for more info.
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