The development of urban digital technologies and the deployment of digital information have evolved into a mutually reinforcing feedback loop between distributed sites of data production and extraction and the planning and design of data-driven and evidence-based landscapes.

Mobile social media, networks of sensors, and the ecology of connected devices termed the “Internet of Things” constitute infrastructures that harvest information, while advancing techniques of analysis and visualization have begun to describe and prescribe sociopolitical and built environments in their image.

Digital Urbanisms was a one-day symposium bringing together urban researchers and practitioners—planners, architects, geographers, organizers, and entrepreneurs—to take stock of the digital processes and products shaping cities, their promises and problems, and alternatives and approaches for operating within and against the uneven spaces they characterize.

Keynote speaker: Ruha Benjamin.
Speakers: Laura Bliss, Greta Byrum, Craig Dalton, Jennifer Ding, Justin Hollander, Annette Kim, Vinhcent Le, Nerissa Moray, Taylor Shelton, Mark Shepard, and Renee Sieber.
Panel Moderators: Malo Hutson, Laura Kurgan, Susan McGregor, and Mark Wasiuta.
Organized by Leah Meisterlin.

Conference Materials

• Full video from the day’s program is available at Columbia GSAPP’s website.

• As is the conference’s printed program, including speaker biographies and presentation abstracts.