Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur

TY - GEN

T1 - Digital cities 9 Workshop - Hackable Cities

T2 - 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, C and T 2015

AU - Foth, Marcus

AU - De Lange, Michiel

AU - Verhoeff, Nanna

AU - Brynskov, Martin

AU - De Waal, Martijn

PY - 2015/6/27

Y1 - 2015/6/27

N2 - The DC9 workshop takes place on June 27, 2015 in Limerick, Ireland and is titled "Hackable Cities: From Subversive City Making to Systemic Change". The notion of "hacking" originates from the world of media technologies but is increasingly often being used for creative ideals and practices of city making. "City hacking" evokes more participatory, inclusive, decentralized, playful and subversive alternatives to often top-down ICT implementations in smart city making. However, these discourses about "hacking the city" are used ambiguously and are loaded with various ideological presumptions, which makes the term also problematic. For some "urban hacking" is about empowering citizens to organize around communal ibues and perform æsthetic urban interventions. For others it raises questions about governance: what kind of "city hacks" should be encouraged or not, and who decides? Can city hacking be curated? For yet others, trendy participatory buzzwords like these are masquerades for deeply libertarian neoliberal values. Furthermore, a question is how "city hacking" may mature from the tactical level of smart and often playful interventions to the strategic level of enduring impact. The Digital Cities 9 workshop welcomes papers that explore the idea of "hackable city making" in constructive and critical ways.

AB - The DC9 workshop takes place on June 27, 2015 in Limerick, Ireland and is titled "Hackable Cities: From Subversive City Making to Systemic Change". The notion of "hacking" originates from the world of media technologies but is increasingly often being used for creative ideals and practices of city making. "City hacking" evokes more participatory, inclusive, decentralized, playful and subversive alternatives to often top-down ICT implementations in smart city making. However, these discourses about "hacking the city" are used ambiguously and are loaded with various ideological presumptions, which makes the term also problematic. For some "urban hacking" is about empowering citizens to organize around communal ibues and perform æsthetic urban interventions. For others it raises questions about governance: what kind of "city hacks" should be encouraged or not, and who decides? Can city hacking be curated? For yet others, trendy participatory buzzwords like these are masquerades for deeply libertarian neoliberal values. Furthermore, a question is how "city hacking" may mature from the tactical level of smart and often playful interventions to the strategic level of enduring impact. The Digital Cities 9 workshop welcomes papers that explore the idea of "hackable city making" in constructive and critical ways.

KW - City Making

KW - Hackability

KW - Smart City

KW - Urban Curation

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84956626359&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/2768545.2768564

DO - 10.1145/2768545.2768564

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:84956626359

VL - 27-30-June-2015

SP - 165

EP - 167

BT - C&T2015 - 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Conference Proceedings

A2 - de Cindio, Fiorella

A2 - Avram, Gabriela

A2 - Pipek, Volkmar

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

Y2 - 27 June 2015 through 30 June 2015

ER -