More-than-human urban futures: Speculative participatory design to avoid ecocidal smart cities

Rachel Clarke; Sara Heitlinger; Marcus Foth; Carl Disalvo; Ann Light; Laura Forlano

doi:10.1145/3210604.3210641

More-than-human urban futures: Speculative participatory design to avoid ecocidal smart cities

Rachel Clarke, Sara Heitlinger, Marcus Foth, Carl Disalvo, Ann Light, Laura Forlano

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Abstract

We propose a collective participatory speculative urban walk exploring "more-than-human" perspectives for smart cities. The walk will be a curated selection of outcomes from a PDC workshop interrogating how "more-than-human" approaches and their resultant ethical, legal, and methodological concerns can shape participatory design practices toward cohabitation. Our aim with the Situated Action is to use the walk as an embodied approach to push forward a cultural change in the agenda of sustainable smart cities, urban informatics and IoT. The walk will draw from the specificity of urban infrastructures in Hasselt associated with "more-than-human" approaches and include a selection of provisional artefacts in the form of low-fi prototypes, manifestos or future scenarios from the workshop to scaffold participation within the urban environment for conference delegates and citizens.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2018 - Proceedings
Editors	Ann Light, Carl DiSalvo, Sarah Nadi, Tomi Mannisto, Yanki Lee, Yanki Lee, Anne Marie Kanstrup, Paulo Borba, Goetz Botterweck, Thorsten Berger, David Benavides, Keld Bodker, Erik Gronvall, Liesbeth Huybrechts, Teli Maurizio
Publisher	ACM
Volume	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450355742, 9781450364645
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3210604.3210641
Publication status	Published - 20 Aug 2018
Event	15th Participatory Design Conference, PDC 2018 - Hasselt and Genk, Belgium Duration: 20 Aug 2018 → 24 Aug 2018

Conference

Conference	15th Participatory Design Conference, PDC 2018
Country/Territory	Belgium
City	Hasselt and Genk
Period	20/08/18 → 24/08/18

Keywords

Internet of things
More-than-human
Nonanthropocentric design
Smart cities
Sustainable HCI
Urban participatory design

UN SDGs

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Clarke, R., Heitlinger, S., Foth, M., Disalvo, C., Light, A., & Forlano, L. (2018). More-than-human urban futures: Speculative participatory design to avoid ecocidal smart cities. In A. Light, C. DiSalvo, S. Nadi, T. Mannisto, Y. Lee, Y. Lee, A. M. Kanstrup, P. Borba, G. Botterweck, T. Berger, D. Benavides, K. Bodker, E. Gronvall, L. Huybrechts, & T. Maurizio (Eds.), 22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2018 - Proceedings (Vol. 2). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3210604.3210641

Clarke, Rachel ; Heitlinger, Sara ; Foth, Marcus et al. / More-than-human urban futures : Speculative participatory design to avoid ecocidal smart cities. 22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2018 - Proceedings. editor / Ann Light ; Carl DiSalvo ; Sarah Nadi ; Tomi Mannisto ; Yanki Lee ; Yanki Lee ; Anne Marie Kanstrup ; Paulo Borba ; Goetz Botterweck ; Thorsten Berger ; David Benavides ; Keld Bodker ; Erik Gronvall ; Liesbeth Huybrechts ; Teli Maurizio. Vol. 2 ACM, 2018.

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Clarke, R, Heitlinger, S, Foth, M, Disalvo, C, Light, A & Forlano, L 2018, More-than-human urban futures: Speculative participatory design to avoid ecocidal smart cities. in A Light, C DiSalvo, S Nadi, T Mannisto, Y Lee, Y Lee, AM Kanstrup, P Borba, G Botterweck, T Berger, D Benavides, K Bodker, E Gronvall, L Huybrechts & T Maurizio (eds), 22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2018 - Proceedings. vol. 2, ACM, 15th Participatory Design Conference, PDC 2018, Hasselt and Genk, Belgium, 20/08/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3210604.3210641

More-than-human urban futures: Speculative participatory design to avoid ecocidal smart cities. / Clarke, Rachel; Heitlinger, Sara; Foth, Marcus et al.
22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2018 - Proceedings. ed. / Ann Light; Carl DiSalvo; Sarah Nadi; Tomi Mannisto; Yanki Lee; Yanki Lee; Anne Marie Kanstrup; Paulo Borba; Goetz Botterweck; Thorsten Berger; David Benavides; Keld Bodker; Erik Gronvall; Liesbeth Huybrechts; Teli Maurizio. Vol. 2 ACM, 2018.

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Clarke R, Heitlinger S, Foth M, Disalvo C, Light A, Forlano L. More-than-human urban futures: Speculative participatory design to avoid ecocidal smart cities. In Light A, DiSalvo C, Nadi S, Mannisto T, Lee Y, Lee Y, Kanstrup AM, Borba P, Botterweck G, Berger T, Benavides D, Bodker K, Gronvall E, Huybrechts L, Maurizio T, editors, 22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2018 - Proceedings. Vol. 2. ACM. 2018 doi: 10.1145/3210604.3210641

More-than-human urban futures: Speculative participatory design to avoid ecocidal smart cities

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