Urban futures: anticipating a world of cities

Karuri‐Sebina, Geci; Haegeman, Karel-Herman; Ratanawaraha, Apiwat

doi:10.1108/fs-07-2016-0037

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“…A justification for application of the design fiction diegetic prototyping methodology is the rapidity of the emergence of IoT, its novelty, scale and diversity of applications that highlight research challenges in anticipating potential user attitudes and behaviors and consequential impacts on businesses and society as a whole. The need to engage more robustly with future IoT scenarios and accompanying customer journeys from both a normative and adaptive perspective is crucial given the predicted and potential proliferation and permeation of the IoT in every aspect of consumer life (Karuri-Sebina et al , 2016). As Bolger (2014) observes, “These technologies will be some of the most intimate we have ever used and which we will be installing on ourselves and throughout our living spaces”.…”

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Design fiction diegetic prototyping: a research framework for visualizing service innovations

Harwood

Garry

Belk

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a design fiction diegetic prototyping methodology and research framework for investigating service innovations that reflect future uses of new and emerging technologies. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on speculative fiction, the authors propose a methodology that positions service innovations within a six-stage research development framework. The authors begin by reviewing and critiquing designerly approaches that have traditionally been associated with service innovations and futures literature. In presenting their framework, authors provide an example of its application to the Internet of Things (IoT), illustrating the central tenets proposed and key issues identified. Findings The research framework advances a methodology for visualizing future experiential service innovations, considering how realism may be integrated into a designerly approach. Research limitations/implications Design fiction diegetic prototyping enables researchers to express a range of “what if” or “what can it be” research questions within service innovation contexts. However, the process encompasses degrees of subjectivity and relies on knowledge, judgment and projection. Practical implications The paper presents an approach to devising future service scenarios incorporating new and emergent technologies in service contexts. The proposed framework may be used as part of a range of research designs, including qualitative, quantitative and mixed method investigations. Originality/value Operationalizing an approach that generates and visualizes service futures from an experiential perspective contributes to the advancement of techniques that enables the exploration of new possibilities for service innovation research.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Design fiction diegetic prototyping: a research framework for visualizing service innovations

Harwood

Garry

Belk

2019

JSM

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“…The captivating subject of Africa’s urbanisation has drawn attention from several different fields. “Traditional” futurists have been increasingly interested in the urban growth topic, and the African spotlighting has tended to follow (Karuri-Sebina et al , 2016). This category will typically include academics, think tanks and multi-lateral institutions that are actively and regularly engaged in futures studies.…”

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Urban Africa’s futures: perspectives and implications for agenda 2063

Karuri‐Sebina

2019

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Purpose The implications of Africa’s growth and urbanisation are the subject of much interest and speculation, and are central to the vision of the African Union’s Agenda 2063. The purpose of this paper is to compare the dominant perspectives on urban futures in Africa to emerging directions in futures and urban thinking, suggesting alternative policy approaches for Africa’s urban agenda. Design/methodology/approach The paper scans and sorts through how Africa’s growth and urbanisation are being understood and framed by various futurists and other futures-commentators. It takes the form of a discussion of the issue of how, why and by whom a series of data points, trends and their implications are being computed and combined, and with what validity, so to inform policy and planning responses. Findings The paper argues from its findings that futuring about urban Africa has been intense, but not particularly objective, neutral or even empirically grounded. Emerging directions in anticipation theorisation and experimental approaches such as “urban tinkering” are proposed as possibly offering alternative approaches to how nations and policymakers might think and act on urban Africa’s futures. Originality/value This original interrogation of which and how actors anticipate Africa’s urban futures could be used to expand beyond the urban visions, assumptions and futuring conventions reflected in Africa’s Agenda 2063, as well as processes advancing the global sustainable development goals and UNHabitat’s new urban agenda.

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“…), but also in terms of operations and behavior. The concept of resilient urban planning encapsulates a new kind of responsive and flexible planning that considers both the need to accelerate change that leads to recovery and the complexity of urban ecosystems and their various interrelations and systemic interactions [2].…”

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Smart and Resilient Urban Futures for Sustainability in the Post COVID-19 Era: A Review of Policy Responses on Urban Mobility

2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has put lifestyles in question, changed daily routines, and limited citizen freedoms that seemed inalienable before. A human activity that has been greatly affected since the beginning of the health crisis is mobility. Focusing on mobility, we aim to discuss the transformational impact that the pandemic brought to this specific urban domain, especially with regards to the promotion of sustainability, the smart growth agenda, and the acceleration towards the smart city paradigm. We collect 60 initial policy responses related to urban mobility from cities around the world and analyze them based on the challenge they aim to address, the exact principles of smart growth and sustainable mobility that they encapsulate, as well as the level of ICT penetration. Our findings suggest that emerging strategies, although mainly temporary, are transformational, in line with the principles of smart growth and sustainable development. Most policy responses adopted during the first months of the pandemic, however, fail to leverage advancements made in the field of smart cities, and to adopt off-the-shelf solutions such as monitoring, alerting, and operations management.

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Urban futures: anticipating a world of cities

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Design fiction diegetic prototyping: a research framework for visualizing service innovations

Design fiction diegetic prototyping: a research framework for visualizing service innovations

Urban Africa’s futures: perspectives and implications for agenda 2063

Smart and Resilient Urban Futures for Sustainability in the Post COVID-19 Era: A Review of Policy Responses on Urban Mobility

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