Learning Cities
For a whole year and with two pandemic waves as a backdrop, Benoît Gufflet and Dimitri Kremp explored and studied seven global cities on three different continents. Their goal? To see if the abstract concept of Smart City holds up in the reality of diverse, changing cities, which face ever-increasing risks. How can digital technologies make these cities more efficient? What roles should their inhabitants play in this digital transformation?
By Benoît Gufflet and Dimitri Kremp
Mon Jul 05 2021
By gradually disentangling the great fantasies around Smart City ‒ those of a city governed by data and populated by blissful inhabitants in the face of technological innovations ‒ the authors are drawing the outlines of a more nuanced reality. In 2020, while the digitization of our lives has further accelerated, it is not Smart Cities that we have visited, but rather Learning Cities: cities that fumble, experiment, often fail, and sometimes succeed. Cities that, step by step, are learning to use digital tools.
Visit these seven cities through this immersive and interactive report (scan the QR codes and join the trip!).