The Walkers: Psychogeographical Contours of the Smart City

这项研究将批判性地分析“智慧城市”的组织，这是一个使用技术收集数据，然后使用这些数据来管理、监控和改进其系统和基础设施的城市环境。这些新兴的数据驱动技术——远非本质上的积极或进步——从根本上改变了城市，并产生了重大而复杂的社会、文化和政治影响。该项目将产生两个相互关联的作品：文学小说中篇小说形式的创造性作品和理论论文。这两项研究成果都批判性地探讨了当今数字城市空间中监控、数据收集和创新控制形式的问题

This research will critically analyse the organization of the 'smart city,' an urban environment that uses technology to collect data and then uses that data to manage, monitor and improve its systems and infrastructures. These emergent data-driven technologies - far from being inherently positive or progressive - radically transform the city and have significant and complicated social, cultural and political effects. The project will produce two interconnected pieces: a creative work in the form of a literary fiction novella and a theoretical dissertation. Both research outputs critically explore questions of surveillance, data collection and the innovative forms of control operating in the digital urban space today