Digital Social Innovation and Urban Space: A Critical Geography Agenda

Certomà, Chiara

doi:10.17645/up.v5i4.3278

Cited by 11 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 72 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Many scholars prompting such a shift refer to Lefebvre's right to the city as a theoretical lens to analyze the digital transformation of society and its implications in the production of urban space, and urge the transfer of decision-making processes away from the state into the hands of the "citadins" (Purcell, 2002, p. 102) This scholarly strand sees the digital sphere as an extension or continuation of urban space, creating a hybrid terrain in cities (Ash et al, 2018;Castells, 2015;Certomà, 2020). Here, the right to the city is conceptualized in the study of smart cities (Anastasiu, 2019;Breuer et al, 2019;Galič & Schuilenburg, 2020;Kitchin et al, 2019), citizenship and participation in the digital era (Alevizou, 2020;Breuer & Pierson, 2021;Islar & Irgil, 2018;Reeve, 2022), informational and digital power in today's cities (Currie et al, 2022;Shaw & Graham, 2017), and the digital sphere as the site of struggle and resistance (Garay et al, 2020;Geuder & Alcântara, 2019;Middha & McShane, 2022;Tayebi, 2013).…”

Section: Citizen-centered Smart Cities and The Digital Right To The Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Rights to the City: Local Practices and Negotiations of Urban Space on Decidim

Suter,

Kaiser,

Dušek

et al. 2024

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The organization, management, and production of urban space through digital information and communication technologies have become a central means for governing urban life. To overcome a lack of citizen-centered practices in today’s smart cities, governments and municipalities institutionalize citizen-centered digital infrastructures such as Decidim, a digital infrastructure proposing non-corporate, decentralized, and collaborative forms of digital production to evoke participatory governance practices and ultimately social transformation (Barandiaran et al., 2018). Swiss city administrations have adapted the Decidim platform for participatory budgeting processes and city-wide participation platforms since 2019. This article explores the process of institutional adoption, focusing on how the use of Decidim impacts local practices and negotiations for governing urban space. The examination of the Decidim platform in the Swiss cities of Zurich and Lucerne will be framed by re-conceptualizing Lefebvre’s right to the city in the age of digital transformation. The findings show that for a successful introduction of the Decidim platform based on principles of the right to the city (a) local needs for a new digital democratic instrument need to be pre-existent, (b) government employees must implement a scope of action which allows organized civil society and grassroots initiatives to appropriate the infrastructure for their own purposes, and (c) local practices of hybrid communication and organizing must be aligned with the structure of the platform. Nevertheless, digital participation tools such as Decidim cannot solve entrenched inequalities such as the financialization of land, the issue of disadvantaged neighborhoods, or the absence of voting rights for certain communities. Therefore, city administrations need to integrate hybrid participation strategies which prioritise collective power over distributive power as well as tackle urban inequalities through political means.

show abstract

Section: Citizen-centered Smart Cities and The Digital Right To The Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Rights to the City: Local Practices and Negotiations of Urban Space on Decidim

Suter,

Kaiser,

Dušek

et al. 2024

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The article by Certomà (2020) presents and discusses the thematic issue's topic. It points out that spacerelated aspects have been incidentally addressed by innovation management and regional studies researches.…”

Section: Synopsis Of the Thematic Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

The City of Digital Social Innovators

Certomà

Dyer

Passani³

2020

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The concept of digital social innovation (DSI) refers to a fast-growing set of initiatives aimed at providing innovative solutions to social problems and needs by deploying the potential of the social web and digital media. Despite having been often interpreted as synonymous with digitally enhanced social innovation, we explain here why, in consideration of its epistemological and socio-political potentialities, we understand it as an interdisciplinary set of practices able to interpret and support the changes of a society that is more and more intrinsically virtual and physical at the same time. Notably, we briefly discuss how DSI processes can be functionally mobilized in support of different socio-political projects, ranging from the mainstream neoliberal to the revolutionary ones. Eventually, we provide a synopsis of the articles included in this thematic issue, by aggregating them accordingly to the main stakeholders promoting the DSI projects, being more bottom-up oriented or more institutional-based.

show abstract

“…En este sentido, tanto la CE (2019; 2021b) como las Naciones Unidas (2015) destacan la esfera local como espacio estratégico para desarrollar políticas públicas que tengan en cuenta la IS para avanzar en la gobernanza democrática. La literatura al respecto coindice en buena medida (MacCallum et al, 2009;Moulaert et al, 2005), aunque desde la geografía urbana no faltan aproximaciones críticas a las luces y sombras de los discursos y prácticas de la IS para la transformación urbana (McFarlane et al, 2021;Lorne, 2020;Certomà, 2020).…”

Section: Introductionunclassified

La innovación social desde la ciudadanía para avanzar en la gobernanza democrática de las ciudades: estudio del Ajuntament de València

Talón Villacañas,

Belda-Miquel,

Cuesta Fernández

et al. 2024

BAGE

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

El marco discusivo-institucional europeo sobre innovación social y gobernanza democrática local se caracteriza por plantear el ámbito local como espacio estratégico donde promover nuevas soluciones a los problemas sociales actuales y por promover iniciativas ciudadanas innovadoras que cogestionen bienes y servicios públicos. Este estudio tiene como objetivo principal conocer cómo la política y la gestión pública local están incorporando y significando el marco discursivo-institucional de la Innovación Social Ciudadana como forma de avanzar en la gobernanza democrática. A través de una metodología cualitativa, centrada en entrevistas semi-estructuradas, se realiza un análisis crítico del discurso desde las tesis de Fairclough. Las percepciones de las personas que trabajan en la gestión pública del Ajuntament de València ilustran la relación entre discurso, práctica discursiva y práctica social necesaria para responder al objetivo sobre el proceso de significación. En este sentido, la ciudad de València refleja en sus planes y estrategias más recientes tanto una incorporación de estos objetivos como una legitimación de prácticas previas sobre la base de los mismos. Finalmente, el caso ilustra las complejidades y la diversidad en la aplicación de este marco europeo a las realidades urbanas.

show abstract

Digital Social Innovation and Urban Space: A Critical Geography Agenda

Cited by 11 publications

References 72 publications

Digital Rights to the City: Local Practices and Negotiations of Urban Space on Decidim

Digital Rights to the City: Local Practices and Negotiations of Urban Space on Decidim

The City of Digital Social Innovators

La innovación social desde la ciudadanía para avanzar en la gobernanza democrática de las ciudades: estudio del Ajuntament de València

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About