Abstract
The new climatic regime is a more than natural and more than human issue. It calls for a compelling effort to cut CO2 emissions and re-think economic growth as well as to establish a new relationship with the world and find a common ground for species and things, a new ecology for the Earth. Cities are at the forefront to respond to climate change challenges by ensuring sustainable use of resources and adopting long-term policies to mitigate global warming.
Current networked data infrastructures are in place to facilitate the daily management of life in cities. However, the finding of recent research reveals that these infrastructures are not able to block irreversible damage from climate change, and that climate plans must be revised and sustainability targets subjected to new scenarios. Infrastructuring Time In Smart Urbanism And Urban Transitions (INFRATIME) explores the new regime focusing on the interactions between urban and climate transformations, especially looking at their infrastructural and time interference.
The research aims to understand the combined temporality and rhythm of urban transitions and smart urbanism, their organizational and socio-technical aspects, so as to offer insights to entrain urban transformations with viable, just and sustainable futures. INFRATIME is funded under the European Union MSCA-IF-GF Call (Grant Agreement No. 892522), hosted by the University Of Bologna (IT) – Dept. of Philosophy and Communication Studies in partnership with the University Of Tokyo (JP), Dept. of Urban Engineering. (www.infratime.eu)