FCJ-219 The Sensed Smog: Smart Ubiquitous Cities and the Sensorial Body

• Main Author: Jussi Parikka
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Open Humanities Press 2017-06-01
• Series: Fibreculture Journal
• Subjects: smart cities; ubiquitous computing; urbanism; cities; smog; pollution; sensors; data and materiality
• Online Access: http://twentynine.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-219-the-sensed-smog-smart-ubiquitous-cities-and-the-sensorial-body/

This article approaches the technological city both from the perspective of sensors and as a conceptual thread that relates to air pollution. Smart cities carry forward their earlier technological legacy in infrastructure and often also in terms of the residual air pollution, like photochemical smog. The issue of the sensorial becomes a central focus of the article ranging from the experience of air pollution to its tracking and monitoring in remote sensing solutions. These two threads, sensors and the sensed city, lead to a conceptual argument that suggests to look at the technologies of smart city as an entanglement of the materiality and data.