Manu Fernandez is a researcher and urban policy consultant who has worked for 10 years on projects related to local sustainability and urban economies. He is currently freelancing in three areas: developing adaptive strategies for economic crisis, exploring the intersection of digital and social perspectives of bottom-up smart cities, and boosting economic revitalization in cities. Two major global trends are urbanization and ubiquity. Smart cities research should involve citizens and testing under real-life conditions, with the city as a platform. Civic engagement models include collective innovation labs, civic hacking, and mixing arts, creativity and technology.

1. URBAN AGENCY
@manufernandez
SMART CITIES: RESEARCH AND
to manage knowledge citiesCIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN A NETWORKED SOCIETY

2. MANU FERNÁNDEZ
As a researcher and urban policy consultant for the last
ten years, I have always been involved in projects
relating to local sustainability and analysis of urban
economies.
I am currently working as a freelance in three areas:
adaptive strategies to cope with the economic crisis,
the intersection of digital and social perspectives of
bottom-up smart cities and, finally, the actions to boost
economic revitalization in cities.
URBAN STRATEGIST
manufer2007@gmail.com
www.ciudadesaescalahumana.org
@manufernandez
Advisory Board of
UrbanIxD
Steering Committee of
Smart City Exhibition
Bologna 2013

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TWO MAJOR GLOBAL TRENDS
URBANIZATION UBIQUITY

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URBANIZATION UBIQUITY
TWO MAJOR GLOBAL TRENDS

5. URBANIZATION UBIQUITY
WHY
WHAT
HOW?
TWO MAJOR GLOBAL TRENDS

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THE EMERGING QUANTITATIVE URBANISM
A NEW SCIENCE
OF CITIES. WHAT
IS WRONG HERE?

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THE DIALOGUE OF THE DEAF ON SMART CITIES
WHAT YOU SEE DEFINES WHAT YOU CARE ABOUT
Bird´s eye view / Street level view

8. RESEARCH ON SMART CITIES
A TEST BED WITHOUT PEOPLE?

9. LIVING LAB AS THE 4TH P MODEL
Public-private-people-partnership
BRING RESEARCH TO THE STREETS ASAP
City as platform
Crowdsourcing / collective intelligence
ACTION-RESEARCH

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THE INTELLIGENCE OF A CITY IS ON THE STREETS
“Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a
marvelous order for maintaining the safety of the streets and the freedom of the city. It is a
complex order. Its essence is intricacy of sidewalk use, bringing with it a constant succession
of eyes. This order is all composed of movement and change, and although it is life, not art,
we may fancifully call it the art form of the city and liken it to the dance — not to a simple-
minded precision dance with everyone kicking up at the same time, twirling in unison and
bowing off en masse, but to an intricate ballet in which the individual dancers and ensembles
all have distinctive parts which miraculously reinforce each other and compose an orderly
whole.”
THE UNKNOWN VARIABLES OF URBAN EQUATION
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of
Great American Cities

11. TECHNOLOGY ALONE IS NOT THE ANSWER

12. MORE THAN PASSIVE DATA COLLECTORS?
Usman Haque en Surely there's a smarter approach to
smart cities?
We, citizens, create and recreate our cities with every step
we take, every conversation we have, every nod to a
neighbor, every space we inhabit, every structure we erect,
every transaction we make. A smart city should help us
increase these serendipitous connections. It should actively
and consciously enable us to contribute to data-making
(rather than being mere consumers of it), and encourage us
to make far better use of data that's already around us.
Kurt Iverson en Mobile media and the strategies of urban
citizenship: discipline, responsibilisation, politicisation
(...)different applications of social and mobile media
technologies will have different impacts on urban life,
depending on the model of governance and stategies of
citizenship they embody.
ROLE OF CITIZENS IN THE DATA OCEAN

13. David Eaves Lies, damned lies and open data
Quite the opposite. Open data will not depoliticize debate. It will force
citizens, and governments, to realize how politicized data is, and
always has been.
THE CONFLICTS REMAIN THE SAME
RANDONESS, MAIN URBAN FEATURE
DATA NEO-POSITIVISM / TECHNO-DETERMINISM
ASESPSIS vs. POLITIZATION
Usman Haque Notes from my talk at the Open IoT Assembly, June 16-
17 2012
the spectacularisation of data, revelling in complexity only so that
‘experts’ can rescue us from the cacophony: scientists, urban planners,
yes, even artists
THE OPEN DATA DOPPELGÄNGER

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MODELS FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
COLLECTIVE INNOVATION
LABORATORY
CIVIC INNOVATION AND
INCUBATION OF NEW SERVICES
CIVIC HACKING FOR BETTER
CITIES
CODERS AND CITIZENS WORKING
TOGETHER
MIXING ARTS, CREATIVITY AND
TECHNOLOGY

15. NEW PRACTICES OF CONCERTED ACTION AND CREATIVE INNOVATION
TRANSFORMATIVE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND STRONG CONNECTIONS
KNOWLEDGE + ACTIVISM
FINAL REMARKS
EARLY TESTING UNDER REAL LIFE CONDITIONS
CITY AS PLATFORM

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