[Air-L] June 13-14 2022: Smart cities and inclusivity festival

[Katherine Harrison]

Save the Date/Call for papers

Sustainability means inclusivity: Engaging citizens in early stage smart
city development
Closing Festival
13-14 June 2022, Norrköping, Sweden

During 13-14 June 2022 the “Sustainability means inclusivity” closing
festival will be organized in Norrköping, Sweden. With this event, we aim
to think about how sustainability and inclusivity go hand-in-hand when it
comes to the successful long-term adoption of smart city technologies. By
this we mean: A sustainable urban environment depends as much on creating
an inclusive space that is safe, accessible and comfortable for a diverse
group of citizens as it does on deploying “smart” technologies for energy
efficiency or environmental protection.

This festival marks the closing phase of a research project during which an
experienced interdisciplinary team has been engaging with citizens,
technical developers and “top down” stakeholders around a smart city test
site in Norrköping, Sweden to bring together different needs and visions
for the urban space.

The closing festival aims to create dialogue between citizens, researchers
and other stakeholders through a lively and engaging program of events
focused around the themes of citizen science and urban gardening. The
festival is organized in collaboration with the Cities 5.0 (
https://liu.se/en/research/cities-50) and Smart City & Digital Sovereignty (
https://liu.se/en/article/smart-city-digital-sovereignty) research
networks. The two days include presentations, kids’ activities, citizen
science sessions, urban gardening, time to network, work-in-progress paper
discussions and much more, all organized around sessions with our inspiring
speakers (see below).



*The “Sustainability means inclusivity” project team now invite abstracts
for work-in-progress paper sessions around the topic of “Engaging citizens
in early stage smart city development”.  Abstracts should be 250 words long
(not including references).Deadline: 25 February 2022*

Confirmed speakers:
Lauren Klein, Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Associate
Professor, Departments of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods, Emory
University (https://lklein.com/ )

Francesco Pilla, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and
Environmental Policy, University College Dublin. (
https://people.ucd.ie/francesco.pilla )

Gabriele Ferri, Senior researcher in Civic Interaction Design and Head of
Program of the M.Sc. Digital Design, Amsterdam University of Applied
Sciences (https://www.gabrieleferri.com/ )

Modan Akbarnazim, Architect, Planner and Process Manager with
specialization in Regeneration and Development.

Ramon Ribera Fumaz, Lead researcher, Urban Transformation and global change
laboratory (TURBA), Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat
Oberta de Catalunya (
http://transfer.rdi.uoc.edu/en/researcher/ribera-fumaz-ramon )

Linda Gustafsson, gender equality strategist and coordinator for the
municipality's commission for social sustainability, Umeå.

Festival registration opens 1 March 2022. For more information about the
research project, see:
https://liu.se/en/research/sustainability-means-inclusivity