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Smart City Research Lab

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  6. Ringvorlesung

Ringvorlesung

Auch im Sommersemester 2024 konnten wir spannende nationale und internationale Vortragende für unsere Ringvorlesung gewinnen, die uns das Thema Smart City aus ihrer Perspektive näher bringen:

15.5.24 | Rob Kitchin
The Right to the Smart City

  • Beginn 17:00 Uhr  (Achtung: Sondertermin!)
  • Raum: U7/01.05
  • Vortragssprache: Englisch

The aspiration of a smart city has been promoted as a means to improve urban management and governance, and address issues of safety and sustainability. It has also been critiqued for being overly top-down and technocratic in orientation, serving the interests of states, companies and wealthy populations. This talk will critically reflect on the idea and ideals of the smart city, considering a number of political and normative questions relating to ethics, participation, citizenship, and social justice, and how these are conceived and operationalized within smart cities. The final part of the talk will explore the notion of ‘the right to the smart city’ and how this might be used to recast the smart city for citizens in emancipatory and empowering ways.

Rob Kitchin is a professor in the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute and Department of Geography. His research examines the production of digital geographies and his present ERC-funded project (2022-27) is ‘Data Stories: Telling Stories About and With Planning and Property Data’. His previous ERC project, ‘The Programmable City’, examined smart city developments. He is the (co)author or (co)editor of 36 academic books and (co)author of over 200 articles and book chapters, and he has been an editor of Dialogues in Human Geography, Progress in Human Geography, and Social and Cultural Geography, and co-editor-in-chief of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. He is a recipient of the Royal Irish Academy’s Gold Medal for the Social Sciences.

23.5.24 | Maria Wimmer                                                                         Stakeholder Engagement and Co-Creation in Smart City and Smart Governance Initiatives

The concepts of smart city, smart regions and smart governance have gained substantial attention in research and development since the research topic of smart city evolved around 15 years ago. A number of research and development projects and initiatives have been executed since then, driven by various funding instruments at different levels, which nurtured these concepts and their related technological and social innovations. Also municipal or regional government bodies drive such evolution toward digital transformation and innovation in the local communities. While these concepts are substantially interdisciplinary, involving human, organizational, and technological strands of research and development paired with active engagement of stakeholders and with co-creation approaches have become substantial pillars in the success of such initiatives. However, methodical foundations of stakeholder engagement and of co-creation, co-design and of similar participatory approaches are often challenging. In my presentation, I will review different approaches of stakeholder engagement, smart governance and related participatory concepts, and I will give insights into examples of a) stakeholder engagement along the smart region strategy development in the Smart Region Linz, b) co-creating a mobility application in the rural area of Cochem-Zell, and c) the co-creation approach in developing the central portal of smart rescue and civil protection management in Rhineland-Palatinate. Along with the examples, I will review the benefits and challenges of such stakeholder engagement and co-creation approaches.

Since 2005, Maria A. Wimmer is full professor of Electronic Government at the University Koblenz, Germany, Department of Computer Science. Maria studied computer science at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz (Austria), and she received her doctorate in 2000 and her habilitation in 2003 from the same University. In the period of 1997 – 1999, she was young researcher at the National Research Council (Institute for Psychology) in Rome and Multimedia Communications Lab in Siena (Italy). This period was substantial for shaping her multidisciplinary and system thinking, and for her holistic design approach. In 2004 – 2005, she worked at the Federal Chancellery in Vienna (Austria). Since 2005, she chairs the research group E-Government, with currently a team of 15 doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in the field of digital government. Her main research focus is on designing, implementing and evaluating socio-technical information systems for digital government, including the use of disruptive technologies. Key research encompasses stakeholder participation, holistic design of complex information systems, qualitative data analyses, interoperability, as well as analysis, modeling and simulation of public policy and decision-making based on evidence-based and data-driven as well as co-creative approaches. She is a member of IEEE, ACM and the German Computer Society. Since 2005, Maria is PI or lead partner in a number of R&D projects at European, national and regional level. Examples are PEPPOL, e-SENS, ESPDint, Interplat, Interproc, KleBe.digital / Digital Procurement, on cross-border public e-procurement and interoperability; TOOP and SCOOP4C on the realization of the once-only principle across Europe; OCOPOMO, eGovPoliNet, AI and COVID on data-driven policy analysis and modelling and the use of AI; and BKS-Portal.rlp, Data2Health, EG-DAS, Gov 3.0, NoLa, Smart Region Linz am Rhein and Smart Vinery on leveraging disruptive technologies in digital government and in smart city / smart region. In 2018, Maria was named “One of the World’s 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government” by Apolitical (United Kingdom).

13.06.24 | Thomas Foken
Klimawandel in Bamberg - Messungen und notwendige Anpassungen

  • Beginn: 18 Uhr
  • Raum: KR12/02.18
  • Vortragssprache: Deutsch

Der Klimawandel führt in Städten vor allem zu einer Überhitzung – so auch in Bamberg, eine der wärmsten Städte in Bayern. Um zielgerichtet Hitzeschutzmaßnahmen einzuleiten, ist die Kenntnis der besonders gefährdeten Stadtteile wichtig. Im Vortrag wird gezeigt, wie das vom Bürgerverein Bamberg-Mitte initiierte Crowdsourcing Temperaturmessnetz dafür genutzt werden kann und welches Qualitätsmanagement nötig ist – realisiert durch die Universität Bamberg – um die Daten belastbar nach den geltenden Richtlinien nutzen zu können. Damit lassen sich dann Anpassungsmaßnahmen zu planen und umzusetzen.

Thomas Foken ist Professor im Ruhestand für Mikrometeorologie an der Universität Bayreuth. Er promovierte 1978 in Meteorologie an der Universität Leipzig und 1990 an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Er war Abteilungsleiter an den meteorologischen Observatorien in Potsdam (1981-1994) und Lindenberg (1994-1997) des Meteorologischen Dienstes der DDR und des Deutschen Wetterdienstes (DWD). 1997 erfolgte die Berufung zum Professor für Mikrometeorologie an der Universität Bayreuth. Seine Forschungsinteressen umfassen die Wechselwirkung zwischen der Erdoberfläche und der Atmosphäre sowie die Messung und Modellierung von Energie- und Stoffflüssen, mit einem starken Fokus auf experimentelle Meteorologie. Seine wissenschaftlichen Beiträge wurden durch verschiedene internationale Auszeichnungen gewürdigt. Als Gastwissenschaftler unterstützt er das Smart City Research Lab mit seiner Expertise.

Die Vorträge richten sich nicht nur an Mitglieder der Uni Bamberg, sondern die gesamte Stadtgesellschaft. Sie sind herzlich eingeladen!