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“From Real-Time City to Asynchronicity: Exploring the Real-Time Smart City Dashboard”
Michiel de Lange contribtued a chapter in the collection Time for Mapping: Cartographic Temporalities” (Sybille Lammes, Chris Perkins, Alex Gekker, Sam Hind, Clancy Wilmott and Daniel Evans, eds.). In this essay, de Lange pursues the idea of an ‘asynchronous smart city’ (as originally suggested by design researchers Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova), using the temporal framework of sociologist Barbara Adam. At stake, is the endeavor to unbox what is presented as real-time mapping beyond the merely discursive level, and to develop ‘asynchronicity’ as an alternative heuristics to scrutinize the role of urban dashboards in governing today’s (smart) cities.
The collection is available in Open Access here >>
