POSTPONED: SoGE Annual Lecture - Picturing the future city: digital devices, big data and being human
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Lecture | 17:30 – 18:30 | Lecture Theatre
Drinks Reception | 18:30 | Gottmann Room

One of the most significant transformations happening in cities across the world is the use of ‘big data’. Big digital data is generated by all sorts of sensors in urban environments, from air pollution and water level monitors, to smartphone apps and surveillance cameras. Big data can take many forms; both city governments and private platforms like Google and Uber are creating and using it, as are many citizen and community initiatives. So far, geographers have paid a lot of attention to the infrastructure and economics of this change, but this lecture will address it from a different angle. It will explore the visions and imaginaries of urban futures that are entangled in these technological innovations, and will suggest that these future cities are not only going to look very different, they will feel different too.
Date: 5 May 2020, 17:30 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2020)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Gillian Rose (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: events@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://sogeannuallecture.eventbrite.co.uk
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editors: Chris White, Helen Morley, Donna Palfreman