Smart Cities Team comes together for a workshop

Claudia Fonseca Alfaro Uncategorized smart cities

The IUR’s Smart Cities Team had a workshop at Niagara to discuss preliminary results, common interests, and future projects.

The Institute’s four smart city projects are:

Smart cities for city officials

Guy Baeten (project leader) and Carina Listerborn. Research Assistant: Sara Elloukmani. Financing body: FORMAS (2018-2020). More information.

A critical exploration of smart housing from an intersectional perspective

Carina Listerborn (project leader), Guy Baeten and Maja de Neergaard (Aalborg University). Intern: Asha Sri Nissanka. Financing body: FORMAS (2018-2021). More information.

The production of smart cities: Learning from an “actually existing” example in Mexico

Project leader: Claudia Fonseca Alfaro. Intern: Camila Freitas. Financing body: IUR (2019) and CRUSH (2020). More information.

Epistemic dialogues South-North: Decolonising the smart city agenda

Project leader: Lorena Melgaço. Intern: Ioanna Kontopoulou. Financing body: IUR (2019-2021). More information.


From left to right: Camila Freitas, Carina Listerborn, Asha Sri Nissanka, Sara Elloukmani, Guy Baeten, Maja de Neergaard, Claudia Fonseca Alfaro, Ioanna Kontopoulou, Lorena Melgaço

Featured image: “Hands On FutureSmart City” by Chiara Alduini is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0