{"id":21,"date":"2016-02-16T17:36:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=21"},"modified":"2016-04-04T07:57:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T07:57:04","slug":"whose-right-to-a-smart-city-a-new-ahrc-funded-research-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/02\/16\/whose-right-to-a-smart-city-a-new-ahrc-funded-research-network\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Whose right to a smart city?’: a new AHRC-funded research network"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Arts Institute<\/a> is delighted to announce that\u00a0Associate Professor Katharine S. Willis<\/a>,\u00a0who is based in School of Architecture, Design and Environment<\/a>, has been awarded an AHRC International Research Network Grant<\/a>\u00a0for a project on \u2018Whose Right to the Smart City?\u2019 which will run for two years from February 2016 \u2013 January 2018.<\/p>\n

The network will critically address the smart city agenda, and investigate the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in marginalised communities at a range of global contexts. Taking the right to the city as a framework, the network investigates the question \u2018Whose right to the (Smart) City\u2019?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The network will examine how and why cities and people are shaping technologies to suit their needs and the role of civic inclusiveness in this process, and will draw on knowledge and perspectives from marginalised city contexts at a range of geographical levels including UK, Brazil and India. It involves academics working at the boundary between the disciplines of architecture, urban planning, urban studies and ubiquitous computing and comprises partners from Plymouth University (UK), University College London (UK), Universidade Federale de Minais Gerais (Brazil) and Transparent Chennai (India). Network participants will be drawn from academics, city governance, NGO\u2019s, community groups and industry in a multi-sector approach.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0AHRC Research Network Scheme<\/a>\u00a0is designed to promote\u00a0wide-ranging discussion and intellectual exchange upon specific thematic areas, issues, or questions. As such, the \u2018Whose Right to the Smart City\u2019 project spans multiple continents and encompasses multiple research groups; Dr Willis\u2019s Co-Investigator,\u00a0Ava Fatah<\/a>\u00a0is based at\u00a0University College London<\/a>, Ana Paula Baltazar<\/a> is from the Federal University of Minais Gerais<\/a> and Satyarupa Shekhar<\/a> is from the Transparent Chennai non profit group part of the CAG, Chennai.<\/p>\n

The AHRC network develops The\u00a0School of Architecture, Design and Environment<\/a>\u2019s research on critically evaluating the smart city agenda, such as the 2015-2016 Newton CONFAP Network \u2013 smart urbansim<\/a> lead by Prof Alessandro Aurigi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Arts Institute is delighted to announce that\u00a0Associate Professor Katharine S. Willis,\u00a0who is based in School of Architecture, Design and Environment, has been awarded an AHRC International Research Network Grant\u00a0for a project on \u2018Whose Right to the Smart City?\u2019 which will run for two years from February 2016 \u2013 January 2018. The network will critically… Continue reading ‘Whose right to a smart city?’: a new AHRC-funded research network<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,122,124,8,10],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ahrc","tag-architecture","tag-katharine-willis","tag-network","tag-smart-city","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}