Our everyday lives are becoming increasingly entangled with data technologies. The Irish Pavilion addresses the utopian fantasy of the Cloud, as a romantic metaphor: The cloud is material. By foregrounding the physicality of data infrastructure and its impact on the environment the pavilion hopes to both reframe how we understand […]
Ester Roura
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22 & 23 December In Memory of Bernard Stiegler The New Industrial World Conference (ENMI) is supported by the Real Smart Cities Project and organised by our partners in the Institute of Research and Innovation (IRI) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. This year’s topic is Taking care of Computing and Generations. This year the […]
Bernard Stiegler passed away on Wednesday August 5th. The Philosopher dedicated much of his work to study the relationship between technique and society, by questioning the urgency that challenges us all today. He never stopped working to link theory to practice, thinking about experimentation by taking inseparable intellectual rigor and […]
Guayaquil Archipelago: Epistemological Steps towards a Real Smart City The idea behind the collection of texts in this issue comes from an interdisciplinary research trajectory, whose focus is represented by the criticism of the concept of “Smart Cities” and as a consequence this issue proposes a radical rethinking of its […]
The centenary of the League of Nations is on Friday 10thJanuary 2020. In response, we are launching an international critical discussion to send a memorandum to the United Nations with the aim of creating an internation. An internation is an agreement between different localities working together in order to invent […]
For more information and registration click HERE Professor Noel Fitzpatrick and Dr. Conor Mc Garrigle from GradCAM will be presenting research on Real Smart Cities.
GUAYAQUIL ARCHIPELAGO is an event that includes artistic research and community engagement exhibitions and a symposium; it is part of the European Commission H2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Project: Real Smart Cities. The project aims to understand and criticize the ideology of the “smart city”, and to develop an understanding […]
This one day workshop will focus on the impact of Building Information Modelling on the development of the urban landscape and the academic disciplines involved in the built environment. This workshop will take place within the framework of the Marie-Curie Sklodowska RISE Real Smart City Project (realsms.eu) which is underpinned […]