Childhood in the Smart City. Digital Transformation of Urban Space and its Implications for Young People's Environments.

在向未来资源节约型和宜居城市过渡的过程中，智慧城市的概念近年来几乎具有普遍意义。智能技术的使用与使城市进程更有效率和更可持续的希望和希望有关，并使城市社会能够以新的形式参与。这一发展的一个显著特点是，当地的智慧城市倡议专门针对和吸引年轻到非常年轻的城市居民。这项研究项目建立在这一观察的基础上，并调查城市环境的数字转型，以及它们对生活在这些环境中的儿童的影响。该项目的中心论点是，虽然智慧城市的概念促进了城市儿童的新理想，但智能激励和控制系统的使用也确实助长了对儿童的排斥和监管风险。由于近几十年的重大城市化进程，城市作为儿童生活空间经常受到质疑。现在，智能城市重建将有助于使城市更加有利于儿童，同时提供进入公共空间的新途径。青年被称为未来的“国家建设者”和“聪明公民”，他们是智能发展战略的主要目标之一，这些战略努力提高社会对在日常生活中使用优化资源和服务的责任的认识，其次是相应地利用空间。在人文地理学关于智慧城市的论述中，儿童与智慧城市环境之间的关系尚未得到系统的研究。该项目旨在为缩小这一差距做出重大贡献，并扩大智慧城市研究，将儿童地理视角纳入其中。从经验上讲，该研究项目基于两个部分：(1)智慧城市愿景和规划文件的项目分析将分析儿童在可持续城市设计中的作用，以及未来城市童年是如何在项目表现中建模和全球传播的。(2)一个当地案例研究(维也纳酝酿中的“共同智慧”)将审查智慧城市发展战略和措施，一方面涉及儿童的参与潜力，另一方面涉及排斥风险和标准化影响。该项目将采用儿童参与的创造性研究方法和专家访谈。该项目的目的是重建智能发展战略对儿童对城市空间的占用和城市儿童概念的影响。有了这一重点，该项目将对智能技术如何改变我们对空间的理解和体验，以及它们如何影响城市社交互动的问题做出重要贡献。

In the transition to a resource-efficient and liveable city of the future, the smart city concept has gained almost universal significance in recent years. The use of intelligent technologies is associated with the hope and promise of making urban processes more efficient and sustainable, and enabling new forms of participation in urban society. One striking feature of this development is that local smart city initiatives specifically address and engage young to very young city dwellers. This research project builds on this observation and investigates digital transformations of the urban environment, and their effects on childhoods lived in those settings. The central thesis of the project is that while the concept of the smart city facilitates new ideals of urban childhoods, the use of smart incentives and control systems does also foster exclusion and risks of regulation for children. As a result of major urbanization processes of recent decades, the city as a living space for children has often been questioned. Now, intelligent urban redevelopment shall help to make cities more child-friendly while simultaneously providing new access possibilities to public space. In their alleged capacity as future “nation builders” and “smart citizens”, young people are among the prime targets of smart development strategies striving to raise awareness of society’s responsibility concerning the implementation of using optimized resources and services in their everyday lives and secondly to use space accordingly. In human geography’s discourse concerning smart cities, the relationship between childhood and smart urban environments has not yet been systematically investigated. The project aims to make a significant contribution to closing this gap, and to expand smart city research to include a childhood-geographic perspective. Empirically, the research project is based on two parts:(1) A program analysis of smart city vision and planning documents will analyse the role of children in the design of sustainable cities, and how a future urban childhood is modelled and globally disseminated in the programs’ representations. (2) A local case study (“Smarter Together” Vienna Simmering) will examine smart urban development strategies and measures with regard to participation potentials for children on the one hand, and exclusion risks and standardization effects on the other. Both participatory creative research methods with children and expert interviews will be applied.The aim of the project is to reconstruct the influence of smart development strategies on the urban appropriation of space by children and the conception of urban childhood. With this focus, the project will make an important contribution to the question of how smart technologies change our understanding and experience of space, and how they affect urban social interaction.