Prof
Jason Cohen, Prof Judy Backhouse and Mitchell Hughes from the IS for Smart
Cities in Africa project were guests of the Wits City Institute on
Thursday the 10th September where they presented some of our
research at the Johannesburg: Performative
Urbanisms seminar. This seminar, subtitled “Fighting for and
over the city: Expressing the city: Knowing the city”, brought together
thinkers around these themes to develop a special edition of the journal Thesis
Eleven on, in and around the city of Johannesburg.
The
IS for Smart Cities in Africa project contributed a panel to the second day of
the proceedings discussing the analytical frames we have been using as well as
research results focusing on the relationship between connected living and
quality of life and the preferences residents express for different information
sources. Addressing an audience mostly outside of the Information Systems
discipline proved to be an interesting and thought-provoking challenge.
The
seminar was hosted at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study and the
University of Johannesburg.
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