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Other(wise) Futurings of Smart City: Cities and Collective Human (Counter-) Intelligence

스마트 시티의 또 다른 미래 구상: 도시와 집단 인간 (반-)지성

정진규1† · 산티아고 로페즈2 · 전보애3 · 오건화4

Jin-Kyu Jung1† ⋅ Santiago Lopez2 ⋅ Bo Ae Chun3 ⋅ Gunwha Oh4

1미국 워싱턴 주립대(바셀) 교수
2미국 워싱턴 주립대(바셀) 교수
3가톨릭관동대 지리교육과 교수
4미국 워싱턴 주립대 교수
1Professor, University of Washington Bothell
2Professor, University of Washington Bothell
3Professor, University of Catholic Kwandong University
4Professor, University of Washington
30 June 2026. pp. 287~300
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Abstract
This paper sketches out ideas of critical techno-social praxis toward alternative relations with data and cities, conceptualizes other(wise) futures of smart cities while remaining attentive to current theories and practices of smart cities. It responds to the questions of how the production of new digital technology and new forms/formations of innovative activities fit into the existing urban fabrics and how we can re-imagine and create alternative multiple visions for enabling smart cities and smart urbanism grounded in resources, priorities, and embodied knowledges of community. We connect such questions to the broader possibilities for an inclusive, equitable, participatory, and creative community-sensitive smart city. We think about the technical/technological infrastructures and platforms of the city, the stakes of smart citizenship, smart urbanism, and re-conceptualizations of AI other than artificial intelligence, to further think about the modes of smart engagement within the digitally mediated society that smart cities of the future might look like. It is also a call for a kind of techno-social relational praxis yet to emerge—representing urban spatial knowledge and complexity in ways that do not obscure but strive to center the generative, reflexive, and inclusive aspects in the development of collectively intelligently generated spatial information, artificial or not.
Keywords
Smart city
Futurings
Smart engagement
Smart citizen
Collective intelligence
이 논문은 현재 알려져 있는 스마트 시티의 이론과 실천을 예리하게 주시하면서, 데이터 및 도시와의 다른 관계를 지향하는 비판적 기술-사회적 실천(critical techno-social praxis)의 구상을 제시하고 스마트 시티의 ‘또 다른(otherwise)’ 미래를 개념화한다. 이는 새로운 디지털 기술의 생산과 혁신적 활동의 새로운 형태 및 구조가 기존의 도시 조직 속에 어떻게 자리 잡는지에 대한 질문에 답하고 있다. 또한, 지역사회의 자원, 우선순위, 그리고 내재된 지식에 기반하여 스마트 시티와 스마트 어바니즘을 실현하기 위한 대안적이고 다층적인 비전을 어떻게 새롭게 구상하고 창출할 수 있을지에 대해서도 다룬다. 이러한 질문들은 포용적이고 공정하며 참여적이고 창의적일 뿐만 아니라, 지역사회공동체의 특성을 존중하는 스마트 도시가 지닌 더 폭넓은 가능성과 연결한다. 이 논의는 스마트 시티의 미래가 구현될 디지털 매개 사회 속에서의 스마트 참여의 방식들을 고찰하기 위해, 도시의 기술적 (technical/technological) 인프라와 플랫폼, 스마트 시민권과 스마트 어바니즘, 그리고 ‘인공지능(Artificial Intelligence)’이 아닌 다른 관점에서의 AI에 대한 재개념화를 다룬다. 이는 또한 아직 등장하지 않은 일종의 기술-사회적 관계형 실천에 대한 요구이기도 하다. 즉, 인공적이든 아니든 집단적으로, 지성적으로 생성된 공간 정보 개발에서 생성적, 반사적, 포괄적인 측면을 모호하지 않고 중심에 두도록 노력하는 방식으로 도시 공간 지식과 복잡성을 표현하는 것이라 할 수 있다.
키워드
스마트 시티
미래 구상
스마트 참여
스마트 시민
집단 지성
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  • Publisher :The Association of Korean Geographers
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국지리학회
  • Journal Title :Journal of the Association of Korean Geographers
  • Journal Title(Ko) :한국지리학회지
  • Volume : 15
  • No :2
  • Pages :287~300
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.25202/JAKG.15.2.6
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