“When people are included in smart city plans, they are imagined as individual data generators, urban lifestyle and technology consumers, or the cause of urban problems.”
 

— Germaine Halegoua, Smart Cities (2020)

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Overview

Design and technology can transform research insights into possibilities. Research and data become the foundation for envisioning future products, services, and urban experiences that respond to real human needs while strengthening social infrastructure.
 

Reading Material

• Dovey, 2009 | Becoming places: Urbanism/architecture/identity/power

• Ghaznavi et al., 2025 | Implementing user-centered design in architecture using virtual reality

• Justice, 2019 | The Future of Design

• Thoring, 2026 | Designing in Space