The Hackable City: Digital Media and Collaborative City-Making in the Network Society

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This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for empowering citizens in the process of city making, relating examples of bottom-up or participatory practices to reflections about the changing roles of professional practitioners in the processes, as well as issues of governance and institutional policymaking. Front Matter ....Pages iii-xv Introduction—The Hacker, the City and Their Institutions: From Grassroots Urbanism to Systemic Change (Martijn de Waal, Michiel de Lange)....Pages 1-22 Front Matter ....Pages 23-23 Power to the People: Hacking the City with Plug-In Interfaces for Community Engagement (Luke Hespanhol, Martin Tomitsch)....Pages 25-50 Rapid Street Game Design: Prototyping Laboratory for Urban Change (Viktor Bedö)....Pages 51-65 The City as Perpetual Beta: Fostering Systemic Urban Acupuncture (Joel Fredericks, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Marcus Foth, Martin Tomitsch)....Pages 67-92 Front Matter ....Pages 93-93 Transforming Cities by Designing with Communities (Rosie Webb, Gabriela Avram, Javier Burón García, Aisling Joyce)....Pages 95-117 Economic Resilience Through Community-Driven (Real Estate) Development in Amsterdam-Noord (Matthijs Bouw, Despo Thoma)....Pages 119-127 This Is Our City! Urban Communities Re-appropriating Their City (Gabriela Avram)....Pages 129-151 Removing Barriers for Citizen Participation to Urban Innovation (Annika Wolff, Daniel Gooch, Jose Cavero, Umar Rashid, Gerd Kortuem)....Pages 153-168 Front Matter ....Pages 169-169 Working in Beta: Testing Urban Experiments and Innovation Policy Within Dublin City Council (Fiona McDermott)....Pages 171-186 Reinventing the Rules: Emergent Gameplay for Civic Learning (Cristina Ampatzidou)....Pages 187-203 Data Flow in the Smart City: Open Data Versus the Commons (Richard Beckwith, John Sherry, David Prendergast)....Pages 205-221 Front Matter ....Pages 223-223 Hacking, Making, and Prototyping for Social Change (Ingrid Mulder, Péter Kun)....Pages 225-238 Unpacking the Smart City Through the Lens of the Right to the City: A Taxonomy as a Way Forward in Participatory City-Making (Irina Anastasiu)....Pages 239-260 A Hacking Atlas: Holistic Hacking in the Urban Theater (Douglas Schuler)....Pages 261-282 Of Hackers and Cities: How Selfbuilders in the Buiksloterham Are Making Their City (Michiel de Lange)....Pages 283-298 Back Matter ....Pages 299-302