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thinks that occur to me about people, power, places

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Asset Mapping, at the Smart City Expo in Barcelona 2016

Asset Mapping, at the Smart City Expo in Barcelona 2016

More typical neoliberal smart city discourse?

-  future seduction and gadget fetichism over concern with what kind of place the smart city would be to live -  insatiable hunger for total data centralisation (a fantasy?), control and market optimisation:

“City platforms need to be open, so they can get any data source; they need to be flexible, so they can ingest data using any kind of protocol and they need to be scalable, so they enable the creation of a single market of connected city platforms.”

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Criticism power

Development actors need to produce more critical literature about what they do. 

I can barely find anything critical about #MapKibera - the most famous, referenced example of informal settlement participatory mapping. Given that informality is now the global urban norm, considering how under-employed, challenging and crucial Participatory Urban Development is for equitable urban transformation worldwide, this is highly problematic. We can’t afford not to criticise. 

‘Social Innovators’ do it, but can we go deeper and further than #FailFairs? Can we make criticism and learning processual? 

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Nairobi - colonial racial segregation

http://sdinet.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Nairobi_slum_inventory_jan_09.pdf

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Town Halls for Social Change - Indy Johar

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“The Bromley by Bow health centre, whose diagnosis starts with what matters to people, rather than what's the matter with them.” from (http://systems-souls-society.com/journal/http://systems-souls-society.com/2016/8/31/new-post-title-1) A bit like urban informality/informal settlements  - start with what’s working and build upon. Start with the positive systems in place, enhance and enable them; unlock their potential.

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New conversations about Death. 

New conversations about everything are needed. Or new ‘architectures’ of conversations to quote Indy Johar (https://provocations.darkmatterlabs.org/a-new-architecture-for-a-future-conversation-e346f4a25cc3#.jqsrs56ko) inspired by this post on http://systems-souls-society.com/journal/http://systems-souls-society.com/2016/8/31/new-post-title about how ‘progressive politics has failed to go to the roots of our problem, which is the widespread neglect of vulnerability, spirituality, and personal growth in our culture’. Depends on who is meant in the ‘our.’ Also reminds me of my someday/maybe project  - open conversations about death through showcasing (artistically) and through debate/conversations  - global death rituals. 

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Indy Johar on Twitter

“System Innovation & addressing our #DarkMatter Challenges - great visualisation by @OzInnovation of where @DarkMatter_Labs is focusing”

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We, the inventors of tales, who will believe anything, feel entitled to believe that it is not yet too ate to engage in the creation of the opposite utopia

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

Nelson Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom

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Henrik Uldalen aka Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen (Norwegian, b. 1986, South Korea, raised in Asker, Norway) - 1: Floating, 2010  2: Untitled     Paintings: Oil

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You get to decide every day what your new story is.

You can start with the ending and work backwards, or you can start with today - right now - and making a conscious choice to show up differently, to act, to commit, to be that person you've always dreamed of being.

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Loci of power

"Sharp argues instead that power is pluralistic, residing with a variety of groups and in a diversity of locations, which he calls 'loci of power'. The loci of power provide a countervailing force against the power of the ruler, especially when the loci are numerous and widely distributed throughout society."

http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/89jpr.html

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