From the Data City to the Living Archipelago

Abstract

This note aims first to provide a general insight into the key theoretical questions on which are central to the Real Smart City project , and then to elaborate on the salient concepts or analysis of each paper of the collection “Guayaquil Archipelago: Epistemological steps towards a Real Smart City”. The most relevant issues, such as smartness, noesis, public space and control, compose the set of critical tools by which we attempt to deconstruct the technoideology of the very idea of “Smart Cities”. A second goal is to provide an alternative to the image of the network, through which one thinks social relations and the transmission of information and knowledge within digital societies. This is the image of the archipela go, mediated by archipelagic thinking. While the first part of the collection of papers focuses on the relation between the digital and the territory, the second part attempts to deepen the concept of archipelagic thinking and to raise some methodological points inspired by real archipelagos.