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Title	Infrastructuring Citizenry In Smart City Vienna: Investigating Participatory Smartification Between Policy And Practice
ID_Doc	31568
Authors	Felt U.; Sepehr P.
Year	2024
Published	Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11, 1
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2024.2313303
Abstract	The notion ‘smart city' has found a prominent place in urban visions, policies, planning, and infrastructure development, often promising citizens’ participation in shaping urban futures. This paper examines the frictions emerging between powerful Smart City Vienna policy imaginaries and their realization in real-world participatory experiments. Drawing on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) sensitivities, we highlight the challenges of giving voice to citizens and, in particular, the limits of participation in projectified (i.e. clearly temporalized) urban transformations. We not only observe the messiness, the unknowns, and uncertainties of participatory smartification processes but also the quite powerful infrastructuring of citizenry through these processes. This points to the need to design participatory processes able to respond to this open-endedness and processuality of temporalized urban transformation, always being attentive to who is experimenting with what and who can participate in shaping urban futures. © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Author Keywords	digitalization; infrastructural citizenship; infrastructuring citizenry; Participatory smartification; Smart City Vienna

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