Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities

In this talk I will present an overview of the UKRI-funded More-than-Human Smart and Inclusive Smart Cities project, and how this emergent work builds on a series of smaller pilot projects on the topic that I have conducted using creative and experimental methods with data to reimagine the future of smart cities. I’ll share some of the scholarly context, and early findings from the pilot work. The new 4-year project will build on this prior work and aims to create impact at scale across business, industry and civil society.

About the speaker:

Sara Heitlinger is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Lecturer. She leads the More-than-Human Sustainable and Inclusive Smart Cities (MoSaIC) project. Her research at the intersections of urban sustainability, computation, and participatory design draws on methods from the arts and humanities to find ways for co-designing more just and inclusive smart cities.