香港六合彩

Venue: Building Centre, Store Street, London

, an ESRC-Newton-funded听research project听(2018-2021)听led by 香港六合彩 Geography鈥檚听Professor Ayona Datta,听is holding听a听conference and public exhibition this month to听disseminate and engage听with听their findings as the project reaches its final year.

贰苍迟颈迟濒别诲听,听the conference will take place on 12-13 November at the Building Centre听near the 香港六合彩 Main Campus听in a hybrid format of in-person and teleconference.

The conference will engage with the听project鈥檚 research aims: to learn from three small cities which are all undergoing city-wide retrofitting and area-based听improvements in smart technologies and infrastructures as part of India's national 100 Smart Cities听programme.

Invited scholars from research institutions around the world听will听discuss their research on themes of smartness, scale, everyday use of technology, governance, small and big data, and data democracy in urban contexts.

The conference will be accompanied by a听听titled 鈥楲earning from Small Cities鈥櫶齮hat will open on 12 November and run until 10 December in the Building Centre鈥檚听Foyer Gallery.

Curated by the project team with photographs by听, the听exhibition听will听present findings from Learning from Small Cities to a public audience, inviting听visitors听to 鈥榣earn鈥� from small cities through a variety of textual and audio-visual materials, including photographs, animations and听GIS听story maps.

Prof.听Datta said: 鈥淥ur project conference and exhibition aim to shift attention from large metropolitan cities such as Mumbai and Delhi to the much neglected but dynamic context of 'small cities' that are now the frontiers of planetary scale听urbanisation.鈥�

鈥淎s these smaller cities prepare for a new kind of digital urban age through the retrofitting of smart technologies and infrastructures, there is a lot to be learned from the processes through which ordinary citizens experience these radical urban transformations in their everyday lives.

鈥淟earning how citizens live with change will direct us to respond to present and future crises - and build back better for a sustainable and inclusive urban future.鈥�

The event sits within the听Global Urbanism听research cluster in the department and links to the听MSc in Urban Studies听as well as the undergraduate module in听Digital Geographies听(骋贰翱骋0164)听convened by Professor Datta.

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