SubjectTechnology, innovation and knowledge

The adjective 'smart' is very much in vogue. It represents the idea that cities can be more intelligent and efficient thanks to technology, and the data that they and...

Urban environments are characterised by the opportunities they offer to think of a political culture where shared knowledge assets can be managed jointly by different...

Cities and citizens, not companies, ought to own the data produced in cities and should be able to use said data to improve public services and put their policies...

We are moving towards the digital city. Technology is often identified with progress. It depends on the use to which they are put. Data has become the main...

The European Union has tabled a new directive on copyright to harmonize different aspects of the European digital market.

Judgements that the cité has ‘failed’ to open up are thus Janus-faced: one side of the coin shows angry populist prejudice, but on the other face can appear...

The exhibit A Certain Darkness can be seen until January 5 at the CaixaForum.

Although people know what they need and want, yet architecture spins into navel-gazing and drifts farther and farther from the possibility of substantive contribution...
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