Digital technologies and data are transforming the material, cultural, social and political spheres of our urban environments.

• What kinds of infrastructures – hard and soft – will be needed for a thriving urban culture? 
• How do digital and communication technologies affect the city as a context of engagement, medium of communication and/or content of communication? 
• What tensions and contradictions underpin existing discourses about the “smart city”? 
• Does the “smart city” require alternative frameworks for understanding cultural planning and governance? 
• How do we begin to exit surveillance capitalism as the dominating form of digital life and what can replace it?
• How are we able to learn from each other and our own context-specific forms of placemaking and community-building?