Smartness as Wealth

Projekt: Forschung

Projektbeteiligte

  • Beverungen, Armin (Wissenschaftliche Projektleitung)
  • Halpern, Orit (Wissenschaftliche Projektleitung)
  • Steinberg, Marc (Wissenschaftliche Projektleitung)
  • Nag, Anindita (Wissenschaftliche Projektleitung)
  • Cirolia, Liza Rose (Wissenschaftliche Projektleitung)
  • Technische Universität Dresden
  • Universität Cape Town

Beschreibung



Smartness promises wealth to cities around the world. Across the planet, we see a growing investment by corporations, philanthropies, start-ups, and governments in computational infrastructures that will manage cities and their inhabitants. This smartness is closely affiliated with venture capital and start-up experiments. It is assumed that smart systems in logistics, real estate, finance, energy and retail will encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, and will resolve problems of top-down economic planning. In this project five particular aspects of this new model of wealth creation and urban management will be examined: optimization, sustainability, inclusion, resilience, and convenience. These are all particular varieties of the promise of wealth associated with smartness: the optimization and subsequent affordability provided by logistics; the sustainability required for living on a planet in crisis; the inclusion in economic life offered by decentralized finance; the energy resilience to climate change, resource limitations, and geopolitics promised by smart grids and financial hedging; and the convenience sold by smart retail. It is smartness which propels these promises a smartness promoted by venture capital. Whether through public smart city initiatives or the plethora of private urban platforms for mobility, sustainability, finance and retail, venture capital is reshaping how wealth is produced and reproduced in the cities of today and tomorrow. This project examines historically and ethnographically the relationship between contemporary smart urbanism and wealth, and the urban economies transformed through smart technologies. Ethnographically the research will occur in five sites in five different countries: Hamburg, Nairobi, Denver and Tokyo. Historically, the research will examine genealogies of smartness and venture capital at these sites and compare smart urban initiatives globally.
StatusLaufend
Zeitraum01.10.2330.09.27

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Publikationen

  1. Pathways of Data-driven Business Model Design and Realization
  2. Offline question answering over linked data using limited resources
  3. Geodesign as a boundary management process
  4. Life Cycle Assessment of Consumption Patterns – Understanding the links between changing social practices and environmental impacts
  5. Consequences of extreme weather events for developing countries based on the example of Mongolia
  6. Creating Value from in-Vehicle Data
  7. Challenges for biodiversity monitoring using citizen science in transitioning social-ecological systems
  8. Operationalization of the concept of sustainable development on different time scales
  9. Performance incentives in activity-based management
  10. The impact of explicit references in computer supported collaborative learning: Evidence from eye movement analyses
  11. Employing A-B tests for optimizing prices levels in e-commerce applications
  12. Integrating teacher and student workspaces in a technology-enhanced mathematics lecture
  13. Multi-view hidden markov perceptrons
  14. Exploring the dark and unexpected sides of digitalization
  15. Tschick
  16. Probabilistic movement models and zones of control
  17. Decision-making models for Robotic Warehouse
  18. One step forward, two steps back
  19. Performance Saga: Interview 06
  20. A PD Fuzzy Control of a Nonholonomic Car-Like Robot for Drive Assistant Systems
  21. Integrating multiple elements of environmental justice into urban blue space planning using public participation geographic information systems
  22. Sustainable use of ecosystem services under multiple risks
  23. Children's interpretation of ambiguous pronouns based on prior discourse
  24. Organizational practices for the aging workforce
  25. Conditionality of EU funds: an instrument to enforce EU fundamental values?
  26. The micro-processes during repatriate knowledge transfer
  27. Utilization of protein-rich residues in biotechnological processes
  28. Pathways to Implementation: Evidence on How Participation in Environmental Governance Impacts on Environmental Outcomes
  29. Quantifying ecosystem services of rewetted peatlands − the MoorFutures methodologies
  30. Learning Analytics
  31. The Role of Assessment and Quality Management in Transformations towards Sustainable Development
  32. To help or not to help an outgroup member
  33. Mathematics-specific motivations for choosing a mathematics teaching degree study programme
  34. Top-down biological motion perception does not differ between adults scoring high versus low on autism traits
  35. Soil carbon sequestration
  36. Utilizing Synchrotron Radiation for Phase Identification in Mg Alloys
  37. Learning Analytics an Hochschulen
  38. Standing up against Discrimination and Exclusion
  39. CALPHAD-based modeling of pressure-dependent Al, Cu and Li unary systems
  40. Understanding and Communicating Climate Change in Metaphors

Presse / Medien

  1. Relaying and Re-Beginning