During most of the twentieth century, Michigan was one of the most successful industrial powerhouses on the planet. And it is not surprising that this industrial perspective has deeply shaped the mindset of this community. But we’ve moved away from an era when the economy was marked by qualities like long-term trust, union wages, repetitive…
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Humanities Frameworks for Smart City Managers
I’m working with a team of students and colleagues. We will create sustainable, usable humanities frameworks for city managers grappling with the consequences of new smart city initiatives by drawing upon sophisticated humanities perspectives for understanding issues of agency, representation, deliberation and equity. Over the next 20 years, $41 trillion will be invested in smart…
Humanities and the Smart City
In the November 12 issue of the New York Times, architect Marshall Brown worried that, The current discourse around the future of autonomous vehicles is centered on “technologically deterministic fantasies”… technological values — like logic, predictability and efficiency — will be erroneously imposed upon the built environment, leading to urban spaces that fail to take…