Deep City: Climate Crisis, Democracy and the Digital

Big data, smart systems, machine learning – it is inevitable that these new technologies will change the way we study, build and manage our cities. At the same time resurgent interest in consensus and contributive action seems to oppose an exclusively data-driven urbanism. Is the opposition of machine intelligence and democracy inevitable, or are shared trajectories possible?

DEEP CITY will be a scientific conference staged as a social and cultural event, a dialogical field capable of moving beyond disciplinary boundaries. To ground its activities and foster dialogue, we invite proposals, ranging from operational practices to speculative and theoretical questionings. These can be presented in written, built, coded, drawn, figured, imagined, filmed, modeled or in any other format. The Open Forum around the Rolex Learning Center on EPFL Campus in Lausanne, the Singapore University of Technology and Design, the city of Hong Kong along with all the people connecting throughout the world will produce a material assembly of projects, imaginaries, theoretical challenges and multimedia offerings.

All submissions are to be sent to: deepcity@epfl.ch
The deadline for submissions is October the 20th.

More informations on http://www.deepcity.ch