The smart city is here but ‘unevenly distributed’. We have traffic lights which see us coming, and toilets

which check our health. We also have smart cities in the service of political surveillance, corporate data extraction or extremist hijack. Manchester for example has pioneered digital city systems for 30 years, but one result so far is the rising numbers of hungry, homeless, depressed, abused and excluded.

This workshop explores some grand challenges with topical case studies:

– How can ‘smarter’ technology systems work with ‘wiser’ human systems?

– How can ‘smart-wise’ systems resist corporate data extraction or the ‘surveillance state’

– How to map or design the pathways from ‘smart to wise’?