FCJ-215 Demoing unto Death: Smart Cities, Environment, and Preemptive Hope

Halpern, Orit; Günel, Gökçe

dc.contributor.author	Halpern, Orit
dc.contributor.author	Günel, Gökçe
dc.date.accessioned	2017-09-14T23:46:56Z
dc.date.available	2017-09-14T23:46:56Z
dc.date.issued	2017-07-31
dc.identifier.citation	FCJ-215 Demoing unto Death: Smart Cities, Environment, and Preemptive Hope 2017 (29) The Fibreculture Journal	en
dc.identifier.issn	14491443
dc.identifier.doi	10.15307/fcj.29.215.2017
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625534
dc.description.abstract	Today, growing concerns with climate change, energy scarcity, security, and economic collapse have turned the focus of urban planners, investors, and governments towards infrastructure as a site of value production and potential salvation from a world consistently defined by catastrophes and crisis. This paper will interrogate the different forms of futurity and life that are currently emerging from this complex contemporary relationship between technology and design by engaging with two contemporary case studies of greenfield: 'smart' and 'green' developments in South Korea and Masdar in Abu Dhabi. In doing so, the paper will ask how these contemporary practices in ubiquitous computing and green technology are shaping large scale infrastructures and our imaginaries of the future of urban life.
dc.description.sponsorship	The Graham Foundation; Wenner Gren Foundation; ACLS Foundation	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	FIBRECULTURE PUBLICATIONS	en
dc.relation.url	http://twentynine.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-215-demoing-unto-death-smart-cities-environment-and-preemptive-hope/	en
dc.rights	Copyright © The Author(s). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).	en
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.title	FCJ-215 Demoing unto Death: Smart Cities, Environment, and Preemptive Hope	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.contributor.department	Univ Arizona, Sch Middle Eastern & Northg African Studies	en
dc.identifier.journal	The Fibreculture Journal	en
dc.description.note	Open access journal.	en
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dc.eprint.version	Final published version	en
refterms.dateFOA	2018-09-11T22:48:13Z
html.description.abstract	Today, growing concerns with climate change, energy scarcity, security, and economic collapse have turned the focus of urban planners, investors, and governments towards infrastructure as a site of value production and potential salvation from a world consistently defined by catastrophes and crisis. This paper will interrogate the different forms of futurity and life that are currently emerging from this complex contemporary relationship between technology and design by engaging with two contemporary case studies of greenfield: 'smart' and 'green' developments in South Korea and Masdar in Abu Dhabi. In doing so, the paper will ask how these contemporary practices in ubiquitous computing and green technology are shaping large scale infrastructures and our imaginaries of the future of urban life.