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Session 2: Reformulating urban geography Sentient cities

This event took place on 24th March 2015 at 10:30am (10:30 GMT)
Berrill Lecture Theatre, The Open University, Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

12:00 Session 2: Reformulating urban geography – Sentient cities:

How is the urban being reformulated through digital technologies? What do these socio-technical interventions mean for urban geography?

Chair: Dr George Revill

12:00 Concept note: Prof. Gillian Rose, Professor of Culture Geography, Department of Geography, Open University

Smart, Intelligent, Sentient - and that's just the City: Digital Agency and the Urban

12:15 Interventions

Dr Ayona Datta, Senior Lecturer in Citizenship and Belonging, School of Geography, University of Leeds

The (un)smart city: Fictions of sentient urban futures

Dr Nick Bingham, Senior Lecturer in Geography, Department of Geography, Open University

Weaving the Sentient City: Some Matters of Articulation

Prof. Michael Batty, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London

Technologies we use to understand the city are changing the very things we seek to understand

12:45 Questions

Rose Gillian Concept Note DM7 OU 2015.pptx

Ayona Datta DM7 OU 2015.ppt

Nick Bingham DM7 OU 2015.pptx

Michael Batty DM7 OU 2015.ppt

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