Seamful Civics: The boundaries and intersections of the smart and connected community
As we examine how local governments and community organizations use and adopt different computing and data infrastructures, we find that the unevenness and disjunctures that typically precede calls for additional integration and computing capacity often mark useful boundaries that preserve organizational autonomy and the opportunities for contestation in the civic milieux. Dr. Christopher Le Dantec, an Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, presents the seeds of a shifting focus from the integrated connected community, to the seamful connected community, turning to the metaphor of seamful design in ubiquitous computing as a guide for rethinking how we approach design for the smart and connected community.
Lecture given on December 3, 2021 as part of NYU CUSP's Research Series Seminar.