UrbanitiesLab (© 2015-2018)

The UrbanitiesLab is an initiative to explore, theorize, and engage with people on their experiences with social media and other aware technologies affecting information interactions, engagement, and learning in 21st century smart cities.

Responsive & Interactive

The UrbanitiesLab fosters spaces for discussion and action about open, vibrant, people-interactive, responsive, and livable cities.

Previous Events on Smart Cities

  • Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018 Presentation on Exploring the quantified experience: Finding spaces for people and their voices in smarter, more responsive cities Nov 2018
  • HCII2018 Presentation on Creativity & ambient urbanizing at the intersection of the Internet of Things & People in smart cities (July 2018)
  • Collaboration in the 1st Victoria Design Nerds Jam, Upcycled Urbanism: How Might We Upcycle &/or Memorialize the Blue Bridge? (Mar 2018)
  • Smart Cities & Learning Cities booth at Discover Tectoria featuring a local smart city project (Feb 2018)
  • VICTA2017 Presentation on Adaptive reuse of cultural heritage elements and fragments in public spaces: The Internet of Cultural Things (IoCTs) and applications as infrastructures for learning in smart cities (Dec 2017)
  • iCERi2017 Presentation on Re-conceptualizing jobs, work & labour: Transforming learning for more creative economies in 21st century smart cities (Nov 2017)
  • HCII2017 Presentation on Civic Tech & Ambient Data in the Public Realm (July 2017)
  • Course on Learning Cities (24 May 2017)
  • ​Invited Speaker (Oct 2016): Emerging Green Builders for Smarter Cities/Communities
  • Workshop (PreConference, April 2016): BCNET2016
  • Workshop (Jan 2016): CitySmarts

Upcoming ...

What: Book Chapter (In Press)

Title: Awareness and smart city implementations: Sensing, sensors, and the IoT in the public sector.

Where: In J. R. Gil Garcia, T. A. Pardo, and M. Gascó (Eds.). Beyond smart and connected governments: Sensors and the Internet of Things in the public sector. Springer, Public Administration and Information Technology (PAIT).

When: 2019.

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Work-in-Progress: Explorations of urbanity (urban life, infrastructures, culture, interactions, experiences, Internet of People (IoP), creativities, economies, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Cultural Things (IoCT) and applications, and much more) in the context of pervasive and aware technologies and aware people in smart cities.
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Expected Publication Date: 2019
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You are invited to participate in an Urban Smart City exploration currently in progress at Thinking About The City. 
Please contact Patricia McKenna, Principal Investigator (PI) for more information about the study.

An Invitation to Explore Learning Cities and Smart Cities
Thinking About The City 
​​A Contemporary Urban Exploration


For more information about the UrbanitiesLab please contact the Director, Patricia McKenna