IN3’s Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab) —in collaboration with UOC’s MEDIACCIONS: Critical studies in culture, design and networked communication research group— is pleased to invite you to the Seminar: «Digital inequality & smart cities given», given by Dr. Johanna Ylipulli, Finland research fellow & principal investigator at Aalto University (Finland).
The seminar will be held, virtually and in person, on Monday, November 6 at 12:00 h (CET) in Room U1.6 of the Can Jaumandreu (Building U).
Venue
Can Jaumandreu (Building U / Room U1.6)
Perú Street, 52
08018 Barcelona
Espanya
When
06/11/2023 12.00h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, IN3's Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab) in collaboration with UOC's MEDIACCIONS: Critical studies in culture, design and networked communication research group
Program
Abstract
Ylipulli will introduce DISC, Digital inequality in Smart Cities a 5-year research project studying digital inequalities and possibilities of digital inclusion through design anthropological approach. The project is focusing on rapidly digitalizing urban contexts in the capital region of Finland, and the PI has also visited Barcelona to learn how the challenges posed by digital inequality are approached in the city.
Academic of Finland research fellow & principal investigator at Aalto University, Finland. She has worked for over a decade in highly interdisciplinary environments combining perspectives from anthropology of technology, design and human-computer interaction. Her interests revolve around urban digitalization, emerging technologies and participatory and speculative design approaches.