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Pealkiri: Waste and Data : Researching the Governmentality of Smart Waste Prototypes in Hanover, Germany / Jäätmed ja andmed : nutikate jäätmeprototüüpide valitsemise uurimine Hannoveris, Saksamaal

Autor: Hörner, Christian

Märksõnad: Urban Studies, Smart City, Smart Waste Management

Lühikirjeldus: The “Smart City” is a trend in contemporary urbanism that represents new computational rationalities of governing and managing infrastructures. These logics inform experimental processes of embedding digital devices into existing systems and urban lifeworlds. In Hanover, Germany, a joint-venture of public and private firms is currently prototyping a “Smart Waste” system that utilizes sensing and communication technology in order to optimize the city’s waste management. Applying recent theoretical literature on environmental governmentality to the case of Hanover, the thesis seeks to empirically expand critical studies of the Smart City. Highlighting how smart governmentality is enacted by the project, the case material suggests that waste is rearticulated from unwanted material to valuable data resource. Following a methodology that thinks infrastructures as complex systems of human and non-human actors, a mixed-method approach was utilized that employed discursive document analysis, historical research, interviews, and qualitative analysis. This research highlights power dynamics between populations and infrastructures in smart cities and underscores the transformation of urban epistemologies through smart city prototypes. The work offers a perspective that, rather than placing the human in the center of attention, asks questions about how digital technologies change our understandings of urban materials and how this shift affects urban lifeworlds.

Väljaandja: Eesti Kunstiakadeemia

Juhendaja : Marzecova, Agata; Jørgensen, Nina Stener

Kuupäev: 2024

Tüüp: Magistritöö

Formaat, olemus: text

Õppekava: Urbanistika

Keel: inglise

Seosed: Estonian Academy of Arts Graduation Show TASE ’24

Lisainfo: text (68 pages)

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