{"id":123,"date":"2018-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plataformasdt.cl\/cms\/2018\/02\/23\/lecture-acknowledging-the-idiot-in-the-smart-city-laboratisation-and-citizenship-in-the-making-of-a-low-carbon-district-in-santiago-de-chile\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T02:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:31:59","slug":"lecture-acknowledging-the-idiot-in-the-smart-city-laboratisation-and-citizenship-in-the-making-of-a-low-carbon-district-in-santiago-de-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plataformasdt.cl\/en\/lecture-acknowledging-the-idiot-in-the-smart-city-laboratisation-and-citizenship-in-the-making-of-a-low-carbon-district-in-santiago-de-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture: Acknowledging the Idiot in the Smart City: Laboratisation and Citizenship in the making of a low-carbon district in Santiago de Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/p>\n

In this presentation I will like to share some empirical reflections about the notion of Smart City and its socio-technical implications in urban space in Santiago. From my research project called \u201cSmart Citizen\u201d, developing with my colleague Matias Valderrama<\/strong>, I have been studying different empirical cases trying to understand how the idea of smart urbanism is implemented; that is, through what kind of socio-material repertoires it’s develops.<\/p>\n

My approach is pragmatist: rather than fix a definition of the smart city, I explore how this notion emerge through interventions and practices, breakdowns and justifications, technologies and expectations. From a more political perspective, I’m interested to understand how sociotechnical frames of Smart City becomes a mechanism for enrolment (or what I call as a “conscription device\u2019) distributing priorities and capacities of the urban actors, shaping up particulars way of understand urban spaces, public participation and the very idea of smartness.<\/p>\n

Based on recent works on the concept of the idiot, I argue that this Smart intervention (Shared Streets for a Low-Carbon District) made invisible the \u201cidiotic manifestations\u201d of indifference and problematisation that emerge during the intervention. This work of purification of the urban complexity -avoiding frictions, recalcitrant and agonistic situations- blocked the unfolding capacity of the experiment to rethink urban participation, in which the idiotic manifestations could be considered as sites of inventive process, becoming a ground for the deployment of critical competencies of the actors and entities involved. In other words, I will argue that this project, like many other Smart Experiments in public space, conceived the experimentation in its enfolding capacities, rather than use the urban experimentation in its unfolding capacities; that is, the capacity for open up new sites of political engagement and speculation whit the city and democracy<\/p>\n

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