Citizen's Right to the Digital City

Socio-Cultural Role of Digital Screens in Urban Life.- Exploring Socio-Spatial Effects of Media Architectural Interfaces as Encounter Stages for Livable Cities.- An Eco-logic of Urban Interactive Environments.- Digital Participatory Budget: Local Democratic Practices in the Digital Era.

Professor Marcus Foth is founder and director of the Urban Informatics Research Lab, and Professor of Interactive & Visual Design in the School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology. Marcus' research focuses on the relationships between people, place and technology. He leads a cross--disciplinary team that develops practical approaches to complex urban problems. He adopts human--computer interaction and design methodologies to build engagement around emerging issues facing our cities. Marcus has authored and co--authored over 120 publications in journals, edited books, and conference proceedings.

Martin Brynskov, PhD, is associate professor in interaction technologies at the Department of Aesthetics and Communication at Aarhus University in Denmark. He is also research fellow at Participatory IT Centre (PIT) and Center for Advanced Visualization and Interaction (CAVI), director of the Digital Design Lab, co-founder of Smart Aarhus, and former director of the Civic Communication group at the Center for Digital Urban Living. He is the general chair of the Media Architecture Biennale 2012 and 2014. Working closely together with municipalities, artists, journalists, media organizations, and industrial partners, he investigates the consequences of digitization and explores new forms of mediation within a variety of domains with special focus on the role of social interaction, materials and interfaces. The research is mostly carried out as interventions and experiments in the wild, deploying prototypes and semi--permanent interactive systems.

Timo Ojala is professor of computer engineering at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the University of Oulu and the director of the MediaTeam Oulu research group. He received his M.Sc. (with honors) and Dr.Tech. degrees in 1992 and 1997, respectively, from the University of Oulu, Finland. He is the responsible director of the UrBan Interactions(UBI)

"The book is an interdisciplinary work, which brings urban planning and urbanisation, IT-development and informatics, financial issues and economics under the umbrella of spatial theory and geography. ... The volume presents different viewpoints and aspects on urban informatics and digital urbanism, what makes it a useful handbook with its thirteen individual but connected chapters for geographers, sociologists, economists and urbanists, who are working in ICT-based urban development and design." (Gyula Nagy, Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, Vol. 65 (3), 2016)