Northern Urban Lights: Emplaced Experiences of Urban Lighting as Digital Augmentation

Luusua, Anna; Pihlajaniemi, Henrika; Ylipulli, Johanna

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-30028-3_13

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“…The theoretical lens of emplacement stimulates inquiry into spatiotemporal underpinnings of experiences, attitudes, opinions, and perceptions (Luusua, Pihlajaniemi, and Ylipulli 2016). Embodiment brings needed attention to the body, but emplacement broadens our gaze to the role of place over time in people's identities and experiences.…”

Section: Denise (72 Years Old): Intertwining Body and Placementioning

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Intimately Old: From an Embodied to Emplaced Feminist Approach to Aging

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2021

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Aging transcends and intersects all structured social differences as a fluid complex of positionalities: a temporal situatedness in relation to gender, class, race, and sexuality. Age's operation as an organizing principle of power remains undertheorized in feminist philosophy. This article employs a geographical lens to spatialize feminist thought on old age to enrich understanding of factors underpinning expectations and practices of what particular bodies can and should do in particular spaces. Vignettes from twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork with six older individuals in a midwestern American city demonstrate the utility of advancing not just an embodied feminist philosophy of aging, but one that is emplaced to deepen understanding of the body as situated in time and space. A person's situatedness in dynamic place-events, ranging from daily life at home and engagement in supportive social spaces to experiences of discrimination and even inclement weather, produce distinct ways of being old. Investigating intimate geographies of later life from the micro to macro scale can help destabilize and challenge the objectification, control, and Othering of old people, the majority of whom are female. This article contributes greater “body a-where-ness” to feminist philosophy and stimulates novel investigation into the spatiotemporal situatedness of later life.

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Section: Denise (72 Years Old): Intertwining Body and Placementioning

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Intimately Old: From an Embodied to Emplaced Feminist Approach to Aging

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“…7). We ran 14 different movement-adaptive or dynamic lighting scenarios and two mobile service methods, the lighting scenarios and the results are described in detail in [23,24,33]; in the following we will discuss the results from the perspective of playful and playable lighting.…”

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“…While all our case studies touched on these issues, especially the senior participants in the Urban Echoes study brought these issues forward on many occasions. These were detailed in [24,33].…”

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Playful and Playable Lighting in Smart Cities: Towards a Holistic Framework of Design

Pihlajaniemi

Luusua

2019

Making Smart Cities More Playable

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In this chapter, we will explore the phenomenon of playful and playable lighting in smart cities. We will describe and discuss participant experiences of playful and playable lighting based on the design and evaluation processes of four case studies. These studies, we argue, provide aspects of participation, communication and self-expression; experiences of the sense of place, meanings and beauty; and activities of play and physical exercise. We will look at these case studies, and the aspects of playfulness and playability, through the lens of both smart city literature and relevant theories, and the practical experiences from the processes, examining also the afterlife of the case studies. We reflect on the presented case studies and their experiential aspects, asking: How can playful and playable lighting be made viable in a city? Finally, we conclude by presenting a design framework which consolidates aspects that, we argue, should be acknowledged, considered and addressed in the design and decision-making processes of smart cities, neighbourhoods and urban places in order to create playful experiences of playable urban lighting in a viable way.

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“…Lights in parks can be used to create entertaining displays as well as for safety. (Luusua et al 2016. ) In winter, it is dark; for example, in November, the daylight time is around six hours in Oulu.…”

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“…At the end of the 2000s, the city started to develop as an urban space wherein 'the unique, ubiquitous computing infrastructure deployed at downtown Oulu providing new opportunities for citizens to interact with the city' (Ubicomp Oulu). In practice, new computing networks and sensors have been designed and installed in the city centre that have materialised for city occupants in the form of, for example, free WiFi networks, smart lighting and interactive touch-screen displays providing information and entertainment services (Luusua, Pihlajaniemi & Ylipulli 2016;Ylipulli 2015). The development of smart Oulu is based on the triple-helix strategy involving the co-operation of the university and other research institutes, the high-tech industry and the administration of the city to create new innovations.…”

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From Tar City to Smart City

Suopajärvi

2018

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In a smart city, technologies are designed to assist people in their everyday lives, like in intelligent homes, public transportation, and e-services. However, this can lead to new kind of marginalisation if people do not fit into the idea of smart citizen. In this article, I consider how the smart city ideology of Oulu in northern Finland becomes lived in the everyday practices of senior citizens; and how they sense themselves as “smart citizens.” Through generating ethnographic composition of ICT-biography and walk-along interviews, and series of workshops with seniors, city officials and researchers; and thinking this process as collaborative knowledge-making, the configuration of ageing in a smart city has emerged. In this configuration, the city is understood as an assemblage with dynamics of temporalities, structures, communities and individuals; and as part of global power-geometry. Though the seniors support the smart city ideology as regional strategy, they want to make a voluntary decision to become a smart citizen. Current smart city is made for and by technology enthusiasts, and it often excludes other citizens. To become a smart community the city must include variety of citizens in the making of their city. Many seniors are willing to take up this challenge.

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Northern Urban Lights: Emplaced Experiences of Urban Lighting as Digital Augmentation

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

Intimately Old: From an Embodied to Emplaced Feminist Approach to Aging

Intimately Old: From an Embodied to Emplaced Feminist Approach to Aging

Playful and Playable Lighting in Smart Cities: Towards a Holistic Framework of Design

From Tar City to Smart City

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