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<b><span style="font-size:14pt">Katharine S. Willis</span></b><br>
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to focus on solutions to be applied top-down, and therefore, fails to address particular issues related to different types of marginalised communities. In examples where it does foster citizen engagement the projects fail to provide the appropriate tools for
communities informed decisions and can in fact reinforce marginalisation rather than challenge it</span></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:16px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-top:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt">.
Therefore, in this talk I</span></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:16px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-top:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt"> focus on some of those
excluded by smart city projects; the urban poor, street traders and those who live in informal settlements and explore the way in which they access and participate in the city. I will draw on empirical work undertaken in India and Brazil where we have investigated
the way in which smart city projects (such as the India Smart Cities Mission </span>
</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt">(2017)</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt">) are being planned and implemented and the corresponding implications for marginalized communities. I argue that there is a need to recognize
the value of a range of everyday, small-scale ways in which citizens employ technologies and data that meet their needs in a social and spatially embedded context. In this way we outline how marginalized people may be empowered to have what Lefebvre describes
as ‘t</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt">he right to the oeuvre, to participation and appropriation’
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt">(1996, p.173)</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt"> in urban space.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt">The research outlined in </span></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt">the</span></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt"> talk
is supported by the AHRC International Research network ‘Whose Right to the Smart City? (whosesmartcity.net) and partnered with </span></font><span style="text-align:center; font-size:12pt; orphans:2; widows:2">Citizen consumer and civic Action Group (</span><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:16px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-top:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt">CAG)
(</span></font><a id="LPlnk943723" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px" href="https://www.cag.org.in/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12pt">https://www.cag.org.in/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt">)</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt">,
Chennai, India. </span></p>
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<font style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"times new roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></span></span></span></span></font></p>
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<div><font style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"times new roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Arial" style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Katharine
S. Willis is Associate Professor (Reader), <span style="display:inline!important; float:none; background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2; text-align:left; text-decoration:none; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px">
School of Art, Design and Architecture at </span>Plymouth University, where she has been based since 2011. She<span style="display:inline!important; float:none; background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2; text-align:left; text-decoration:none; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px">
is part of the Digital Cities research cluster at the university, which investigates augmented urbanism, smart cities and ICTs for placemaking.
</span></span></font><span style="font-size:12pt">Her</span><font face="Arial" style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">
</span>research examines the impact of ICTs on place-based settings and communities. She has worked extensively with participatory research within a range of spatial settings, and recent projects explore the implications of ICT projects for marginalized communities
both in UK and the developing world. She is the co-author of <i>Digital and Smart Cities</i> (Routledge 2017), author of
<i>Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World</i> (Routledge 2016), co-editor of
<i>Locative Media</i> (Transcript), <i>Shared Encounters</i> (Springer) and <i>Media City</i> (Franke and Timme).
</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></font><font style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"times new roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Katharine
Willis attained a doctorate (magna cum laude) from the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany, and a Masters (commendation) in Architecture from University College London, UK. </span></span></span></span></span></span></font></div>
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