Whose right to the (smart) city?

这一国际网络汇集了不同的全球视角，以批判性地回应当前的智慧城市议程。它在方法和网络方面是及时和创新的，这是一组在不同全球背景下工作的关键学者。它解决了当前知识交流中的一个空白，并试图纠正现有高度城市化的第一世界背景下的重点平衡，将重点放在与信息和传播技术有关的更边缘化的城市社区和以人为中心的城市变革上。通过一系列研讨会开展的网络活动将探讨“智慧城市”背景下数字边缘化的影响及其对城市空间的影响这一主题。它将通过调查和分析通过智慧城市方法开发的积极和消极的举措，探索边缘化社区内的城市变化模式和工具。在这一可被认为是边缘化社区可持续城市发展的背景下，它的目的是质疑信通技术如何促进这一进程。该网络将在一系列全球背景下调查一系列智慧城市项目，以研究和了解被边缘化的社区如何在城市内利用并受益于信通技术的影响。该网络与亨利·勒菲博尔的开创性著作《城市的权利》的框架合作，以考虑日常和以人为中心的机构在城市变化中的作用。拿到城市的权利，网络质疑谁的权利得到了智慧的城市。目前由IBM等ICT公司和全球城市领导者倡导和推动的智慧城市议程存在问题，因为它采用了一种技术决定论的方法，将不同经济、政治、社会和文化背景下的城市问题同质化。它往往侧重于自上而下应用的信息和通信技术解决方案，因此未能解决与不同类型的边缘化社区有关的具体问题。该网络试图通过交流和绘制信通技术知识和边缘化城市背景的例子来对抗这种做法，以了解这些社区如何从信通技术驱动的变革中受益，以及这可能如何支持“城市权利”。网络讲习班将采用案例研究方法，并将具有开放和论述的氛围。每个讲习班将包括选定的特邀演讲者的发言，以代表当地的专门知识和知识领域，与早期和博士研究人员开展的活动，以及与选定的当地社区利益攸关方的实地访问。将邀请早期研究人员参加一次公开论坛会议，并为形成讲习班会议的成果作出贡献。最后的专题讨论会活动将在普利茅斯举行；由一系列重点会议组成，介绍所有伙伴大学的调查人员和其他相关工作。嘉宾演讲者也将被邀请，来自一系列的纪律和部门背景。这将以一次公开论坛会议结束，以确定伙伴关系中讨论的不同形式的边缘化之间的交叉异同、进一步研究和案例研究的可能指导方针。知识交流和讲习班成果将通过一个网站地图平台记录和分享。这将作为一个实时和开放的平台，传播该网络的工作，并提供作为知识图谱的具体成果。这将使更广泛的社区能够看到该网络的工作，并将得到持续使用社交媒体(如推特)分享进展中的工作的支持。该网络将出版一本编辑过的书籍，其中包括所有网络合作伙伴的投稿，以及一篇共同撰写的期刊论文。该网络网站也将从项目一开始就开发，作为向更广泛的受众传播学术成果的一种方式。

This international network brings together different global perspectives to critically respond to the current smart city agenda. It is timely and innovative in approach and networks together a key set of academics working in different global contexts. It addresses a gap in current knowledge exchange and seeks to redress the balance of focus from the existing highly urbanised, first-world contexts to concentrate on more marginalised urban communities and people-centred urban change in relation to ICTs. The network activities delivered through a series of workshops will address the topic of the impact of digital marginalisation in the 'Smart City' context and its effect on urban space. It will explore models and tools for urban change within marginalised communities, by investigating and analysing positive and negative initiatives developed through the smart city approach. Within this context of what can be considered sustainable urban development in marginalised communities it aims to question how ICTs contribute to this process. The network will investigate a series of Smart city projects in a series of global contexts to study and understand how marginalised communities can appropriate and benefit from impacts of ICTs within the city.The network works with the framework of Henri Lefebvre's seminal work The Right to the City to consider the role of everyday and people centred agency in urban change. Taking the right to the city, the network questions 'Whose right to the "Smart" City". The current Smart City agenda, championed and promoted by ICT companies such as IBM and global city leaders is problematic, since it adopts a technologically deterministic approach that homogenises urban problems across different economic, political, social and cultural contexts. It tends to focus on ICT solutions to be applied top-down, and therefore, fails to address particular issues related to different types of marginalised communities. The network seeks to counter this approach by exchanging and mapping examples of knowledge of ICTs and marginalised urban contexts to understand how such communities might benefit from ICT driven change and how this might support a 'right to the city'. The network workshops will adopt a case study method and will have an open and discursive ethos. Each workshop will comprise contributions from selected invited guest speakers to represent local areas of expertise and knowledge, activities with early stage and doctoral researchers as well as a field visit with selected local community stakeholders. Early stage researchers will be invited to participate in an open forum session and to contribute to forming the outcomes of the workshop meetings. The concluding symposium event will take place in Plymouth; comprised of a series of focused sessions with presentation of the investigators of all partner universities and of other related work. Guest speakers will also be invited from a range of disciplinary and sectorial backgrounds. This will close with an open forum session to determine crosscutting similarities and differences between the different forms of marginalisation discussed along the partnership, possible guidelines for further research and case studies. Knowledge exchange and the outcomes of the workshops will be documented and shared through a website mapping platform. This will act as a live and open platform to disseminate the work of the network as well as providing a tangible outcome as a mapping of knowledge. This will make the work of the network available to the wider community, and will be supported by an ongoing use of social media (e.g. Twitter) to share work in progress.The network will produce an edited book with contributions from all network partners, as well as a co-authored journal paper. The network website will also be developed from the outset of the project and act as a mode of dissemination of the academic outcomes to a broader audience.