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Title Thinking the city again. Towards a framework to understand citizenry-fostered aesthetics of technology in urban metamorphosis
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Authors Lozano, A
Title Thinking the city again. Towards a framework to understand citizenry-fostered aesthetics of technology in urban metamorphosis
Year 2018
Published Teknokultura: Revista De Cultura Digital Y Movimientos Sociales, 15, 2
DOI 10.5209/TEKN.59158
Abstract This article offers a philosophical approach based on aesthetics to understand the consequences of the technological empowerment of citizens for the design of cities. First, we analyse the corporative aesthetic of smart cities and its narrative that has played a dominant role since the late Nineties. The smart city model is inspired by the imaginary of the cyberculture of the Eighties and Nineties that has been rewritten to fit into the business framework. Then, we focus on the growing protagonism of the alternative, citizenry-fostered aesthetics of technology since the beginning of the 21st century and point out some of their key features as compared with the corporative, high tech technological aesthetics.
Author Keywords aesthetics; cybercultures; digital; medialab; smart city
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
EID WOS:000452048200017
WoS Category Communication; Sociology
Research Area Communication; Sociology
PDF https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/download/59158/4564456548863
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