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Söderström, Ola

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Söderström, Ola
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ola.soderstrom@unine.ch
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https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/395

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  • Publication
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    When Airbnb Sits in the Control Room: Platform Urbanism as Actually Existing Smart Urbanism in Reykjavík
    (2020-5-14)
    Söderström, Ola 
    ;
    Mermet, Anne-Cécile
    Platform urbanism understood as the impact of digital platforms on the materiality, daily lives and governance of cities is, we argue in this paper, a powerful form of actually existing smart urbanism. While public attention tends to be grabbed by the control rooms and sensors of smart city narratives, the increasing density of interactions with, and transactions through, digital platforms rapidly, and profoundly reshapes the dynamics of cities and their regulation. The paper investigates platform urbanism by focusing on the “Airbnb effect” in the city of Reykjavik. Based on this case-study we argue that through their ubiquity and the control they have over code and data, platform companies increasingly tend to sit in cities' control rooms. In its conclusion, the paper calls for more studies on three issues—“datapower”; platform effects on cities; and regulatory frames—to nurture a democratic debate on this ongoing corporatization of urban governance.
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    On alternative smart cities : From a technology-intensive to a knowledge-intensive smart urbanism
    (2017-6-8)
    McFarlane, Colin
    ;
    Söderström, Ola 
    Smart urbanism seems to be everywhere you turn. But in practice the agenda is an uncertain one, usually only partially developed, and often more about corporate-led urban development than about urban social justice. Rather than leave smart urbanism to the corporate and political elites, there are opportunities now for critical urban scholarship to not only critique how it is currently constituted, but to give shape to a globally oriented alternative smart urban agenda. An ambition like this means taking the ‘urban’ in ‘smart urban’ much more seriously. It means foregrounding the knowledges, political priorities and needs of those either actively excluded or included in damaging ways in mainstream smart urban discourses. We outline steps towards an alternative smart urbanism. We seek to move beyond the specific to the general and do so by drawing on radically different initiatives across the Global North and South. These initiatives provide tantalizing openings to a more socially just use of digital technology, where urban priorities and justice drive the use—or lack of use—of technology.
  • Publication
    Métadonnées seulement
    “I don’t care about places”: the whereabouts of design in mental health care
    (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
    Söderström, Ola 
    Ola Söderström engages in a geographical investigation of the relationship between the urban milieu and psychosis, with a focus on young people with mental illnesses in Lausanne, Switzerland. The chapter describes a broader shift in contemporary health care, which has entered a ‘post‐asylum’ era due to the de‐institutionalisation of services. Söderström reverses the perspective of mainstream studies in psychiatry by engaging with the experiential aspects of urban space to describe a set of design features that he sees as conducive to a wider ‘landscape of caring,’ which takes into account the emotional and sensorial needs of people with mental health issues. Söderström attends to the subtleties of urban environments, from scale to atmosphere and rhythm, as well as demonstrating that responding to the challenge of designing for people with psychotic troubles opens up the possibility of crafting spaces that are inclusive of all.