Beacons of the Smart City

Leorke, Dale; Wyatt, Danielle

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“…This recurrent invocation of the third place might be a way to articulate the enduring humanistic and communal aspects of libraries, tethering them to their traditional roles in public life and providing a counter to the neoliberal and technocratic discourse that increasingly informs their funding, governance, and day-to-day operation. These two facets of the library—the communal and the entrepreneurial—indicate, as we have argued elsewhere (Leorke and Wyatt, 2019), that public libraries play multiple roles in the city and like play itself, cannot be reduced to a binary logic.…”

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Playing in the “Third Place”: How Games and Play Are Transforming Public Libraries

Wyatt,

Leorke

2024

Space and Culture

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Games and play are a growing presence in public libraries, part of a suite of new spaces and services that respond to digitization and new urban policy imperatives. Drawing on observation of library spaces and interviews with library staff in Australia, Finland, and Singapore ( n = 27), we examine the myriad ways games and play are transforming the library: from its architectural design and furnishings to its daily rhythms, atmosphere, and acoustics. Games and play, we argue, are more than adjuncts to traditional library services. Often spilling out of designated zones and beyond the library’s walls, they mirror the wider integration of libraries into urban policy agendas and the city’s economic and cultural life. This trend underscores the growing tensions libraries face in balancing their conscription into instrumental objectives with their traditional role as “third places” bounded by the utilitarian demands of work and home.

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Section: The Library and The City: Rethinking The Third Place Through...mentioning

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Playing in the “Third Place”: How Games and Play Are Transforming Public Libraries

Wyatt,

Leorke

2024

Space and Culture

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Cape Town: A Smart City for African Socio-Economic Development

Arnardu¹,

Francke²

2021

Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie

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Die modellering van slimstede stel ’n verskuiwing in fokus voor, vanaf statiese e-regeringsbeleid tot pragmatiese Internet van Dinge (IoT)-oplossings wat voortdurend dinamies op burgers en die omgewing inwerk. Die doel van hierdie studie is om vas te stel hoe Kaapstad as ’n slimstad tot die sosio-ekonomiese ontwikkeling in Afrika kan bydra en die Smart Africa-inisiatief kan bevorder. Aangemoedig deur ’n versoek van Smart Africa, is hierdie sosio-tegniese studie van mening dat inligtings- en kommunikasietegnologie (IKT) en die kennisgedrewe ekonomie Afrika se mededingendheid in die globale ekonomie kan verhoog. Afrika het daarin geslaag om op hoogte te bly van tegnologiese tendense, veral in telekommunikasie. Die implementering van 5G verg egter meer as om bloot aansluiting te lewer, aangesien dit ’n magdom moontlikhede vir slimstede bied. Hierdie studie stel voor dat die grondslag van Smart Africa in ’n geloofwaardige beleid en regulerende omgewing gesetel is wat die werkskepping, volhoubare entrepreneurskap en die uitruil van kennis sal aanvuur. Hierdie studie het triangulering van teorie, die opstel van databronne en datainsamelingsmetodes toegepas wat op die beginsels van die Smart City-manifes gebaseer is. In die empiriese fase is sleutel-IKT-beamptes van die Stad Kaapstad en die Wes-Kaapse Regering (WKR) genooi om deel te neem aan die indiepte-onderhoude wat in Junie 2019 gevoer is. Dié studie ondersteun die sienswyse dat Kaapstad as ’n slimstad deur middel van die Smart Africa-beginsels vir sosio-ekonomiese ontwikkeling tot die sosio-ekonomiese ontwikkeling van Afrika kan bydra. Hierdie aanbevelings dien as riglyne vir IKT-strategieë, beleid en stadsbeamptes in hulle transformasie tot slimstede, veral in Afrika.

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Beacons of the Smart City

Cited by 2 publications

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Playing in the “Third Place”: How Games and Play Are Transforming Public Libraries

Playing in the “Third Place”: How Games and Play Are Transforming Public Libraries

Cape Town: A Smart City for African Socio-Economic Development

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