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In becoming a smarter cityPragmatist experiments in
Sydney’s Transport information systems
People & Place Cluster PresentationUNSW Built Environment
6th June 2018
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How can the smart city discourse be pragmatically reassembled for
21st century cities?
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How can the smart city discourse be pragmatically reassembled for
21st century cities?
timtompson.com
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How can the smart city discourse be pragmatically reassembled for
21st century cities?
timtompson.com
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How can the smart city discourse be pragmatically reassembled for
21st century cities?
timtompson.com
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How can the smart city discourse be pragmatically reassembled for
21st century cities?
timtompson.com
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How can the smart city discourse be pragmatically reassembled for
21st century cities?
timtompson.com
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How can the smart city discourse be pragmatically reassembled for
21st century cities?
timtompson.com
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How can the smart city discourse be pragmatically reassembled for
21st century cities?
timtompson.com
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The smart city discourse
● Socio or technical● Relies on canonical studies● Ideological (utopian)● Not pragmatic (derived from experience)● Largely ignores local politics● Treats cities as similar to build theory (nomothetic)● Represents preferences of the invested authors
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The context of 21st century cities
● Climate change● Growing Inequality● Growing agency of nonhumans● Western ideology of othering, universality,
rejection of other ways of knowing● Continuing anthropocentrism● Disciplinary challenges in systemic
problems
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The Smart City in the 21st century city...
● Climate change (largely ignores it)● Inequality (could make worse)● Does not address growing agency of nonhumans● Continues western ideology of othering, universality,
rejection of other ways of knowing● Anthropocentric/tech centric● Tends to be disciplinary
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Philosophical Pragmatism
● A concern with the practical effects of holding certain ideas
● Return to experience○ Evolutionary process of change○ Experimentalism○ Rejection of dualisms○ Rejection of metaphysical
distinctions○ Ecological understanding of context
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Philosophical Pragmatism & the smart city?
● A concern with practical effects of holding certain ideas● Return to experience:
○ Evolutionary process of change○ Experimentalism○ Rejection of dualisms○ Rejection of metaphysical distinctions○ Ecological understanding of context
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Experiencing smart city projects
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What is the smarter city?
Based in pragmatist ontological commitments● In ‘process’● Emergent● Unknowable● Contingent● Political● A pluriverse
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Design in the smarter city
● The designer recognises all action, even inaction, is political● The designer prefigures design ● The designer does ‘upstream’, ‘weak’ and ‘slow’ designing ● The designer designs reflexively● The designer makes the past, present and future unfamiliar ● The designer normalises complexity and emergence ● The designer designs as ‘translation’ ● The designer stays ‘in the making’
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