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Power to the Citizen!

A manifesto for the public authoring of our cities in the age of the smart technology

POWER TO THE CITIZEN! Data and Co-Creation in the Digital City

5 December 2018

By Claire McAndrew, Sarah Bell, Charlotte Barrow and Jordan Rowe

'Power to the Citizen!' is a manifesto and call-to-action for academics, digital practitioners and citizens, outlining key ideas emerging from a panel on data co-creation in the digital city, hosted in July 2017. This manifesto dares us as academics, digital practitioners and citizens to rewrite the narrative.

The project was made possible through funding received from the UCL Grand Challenge of Transformative Technologies, which was secured in collaboration with the Engineering Exchange for work exploring the concept of smart cities and its impact on London communities.

Participants in the panel included Lucy Bullivant (curator, author and founder/editor in chief of urbanista.org), Nicolas Fonty (JustMap), Stephen Lorimer (Greater London Authority), Adam Dennett (The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL), and Ava Fatah gen. Schieck (The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL). You can watch a video of the panel on UCL MediaCentral.

This was part of a collaboration between Sarah Bell and Charlotte Barrow at UCL's Engineering Exchange, Claire McAndrew at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and Jordan Rowe at UCL Urban Laboratory.