THE INITIAL CONCEPT

At a time when the state-corporation version of the smart city seems to be far from a panacea for cities, there is a need to think beyond critiques of techno-capitalist developments and to imagine alternatives.

Among the recent urban experimental collectives and organisations, there is an increasingly strong aspiration to imagine new digital urbanism possibilities representing those who refuse to be excluded from the 'backend' of smart cities proiects and avoid being kept 'dumb'. The aim of the project is discursive analysis and empirical study on the role of grassroots digital urbanism in changing the production of space and reconfiguration of governance in the city of Berlin.

Working Paper: Kiez being Codified: Grassroots Refusal toward Digital Urbanization in Berlin

PUBLICATIONS

PROJECT PARTNERS

HafenCity University Hamburg

Helmut Schmidt University

DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH

Dronig GmbH

HHLA Sky GmbH

Technical University of Hamburg

Ministry of Economics and Innovation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Urban AiR MOBILITY in Hamburg

FUNDED BY

Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Digitalisation and Transport (BMDV).

THE CONCEPT

How will UAM (Urban Air Mobility) be integrated into the current mobility landscape? What are the requirement and challenges of urbanizing the AAM (Advanced Air Mobility)? In regard to air mobility, what does social acceptance even mean?

These are questions that we have addressed in German National Urban Air Mobility project, LUV and in UAM-Social Acceptance Think Tank at Windrove Hamburg Aviation.

LUV - NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE U-SPACE REGULATION FOR GERMANY

PUBLICATION

Under Review by Progress in Economic Geography: Legitimation strategies in emerging ecosystems: The case of advanced air mobility in Hamburg

LEGACY OF MEGA PROJECTS / EVENTS/ Olympic Games

It is based on my four years of PhD study questioning the socio-economic effects of the London Olympic Games 2012 on the Local East Londoners. The focus of the research has been on labour market, examining the interactions between London 2012 as a massive employer, the employment legacy agenda of the London 2012 and the local East Londoners as the labour supply for the Games. The findings of this research have also several significant suggestions on urban governance at the time of hosting a Mega-event in a host city.

Published by Journal of Digital Geography and Society: ALTERNATIVES TO SMART CITIES: A CALL FOR CONSIDERATION OF GRASSROOTS DIGITAL URBANISM