23 > 24.11.2023 | HyperUrban Symposium #9 – City driven by data | Ibn Zohr University, Agadir (Ma)

The term “Data Cities” incorporates postmodernism, inventiveness, adventure and creation. Postmodernism, in the sense of Jencks1, by proposing conceptual breaks with certain urban practices and designs on the one hand and on the other hand by referring to new concepts resulting from Data Science which can enrich urban imagination, such as the concepts of social networks, the Internet of Things (IOT), connectivity, traceability, ubiquity, etc. In a context of data cities, i.e. digital city, inventiveness becomes a daily practice that is part of city life. Today, all inhabitants involved in the development of the social, cultural, artistic, economic or political city, is “naturally” invited to invent and/or continually renew his practices of communication, information, production, sharing, exchange and existence in the new hybridized spaces of the city.

The concept of “data cities” evokes questions, which are strongly and discreetly, existential that can abolish many dogmas as well as cultural, philosophical and ethical borders relating to the “City in the making”.

HyperUrban 9 addresses the issue of the Data Driven City and not limited to it, it remains open to any contribution proposing reflections and/or achievement(s) in the following areas (non-exhaustive list): hybrid land planning, territory Rewriting & Rereading, digital mapping, territorial creativity, innovation and digital governance, AI and multiscalar information modeling, modeling and visualization of territorial data, creative tourism/digital urbanity.