Artificial intelligence (AI) and related digital technologies have profound implications for urban living and politics. These technologies are transforming the way cities operate, and they have the potential to impact various aspects of urban life and governance.
The successful integration of AI into urban living and politics requires careful consideration of ethical, social, and economic implications. Policymakers, urban planners, and technologists need to collaborate to ensure that these technologies contribute to inclusive, sustainable, and equitable urban development.
The Synthetic City conference is a conference exploring the possible implications of artificial intelligence and related digital technologies for urban living and politics.
The conference takes place at Dublin City University Collins Avenue Extension Dublin 9 6-7 September 2023.
The Synthetic City conference
This conference puts forward the notion of ‘the synthetic city’ as a provocation for thinking through the potentials, politics, and everyday implications of these long-term and more recent developments in digitalising urban life. As the above definitions imply, we intend ‘the synthetic city’ to relate to both synthetic and synthesis: the former captures how AI and related digital technologies might imitate or replace human agency (e.g. with ‘synthetic’ data being used to generate various urban simulations, whether for critical infrastructure, leisure or gaming environments); whereas the latter captures how these same technologies always-already involve combinations of computational and human agency (e.g. unfolding alongside the dynamics of everyday routines, political interests, institutions, and so on).
The conference will address a range of topics around the technologies and broader social, cultural and political contexts of the synthetic city, and will include both papers and practice-based interventions.
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Our students enjoy exceptional teaching and learning resources, and our research facilities are among the best in Ireland. DCU is home to leading research centres in areas such as educational assessment and evaluation, bullying prevention and human rights, cellular biotechnology, neurotherapeutics, sensors, plasma technology, biomedical diagnostics, machine translation, cloud computing and data analysis.
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Whether you are from Ireland, the EU or further afield, here at DCU you’ll be living and working with people from all over the world. Over 1,000 of our taught and research postgraduate students are international, from 95 different countries.
We also have a large number of academics from international backgrounds, so your learning and teaching experience will place you in a truly global and stimulating environment.
Clubs and Societies
Further your experience outside of lecture hours by joining some of our 150+ clubs and societies, catering to a variety of hobbies and interests.
International Students
Whether you are from Ireland, the EU or further afield, here at DCU you’ll be living and working with people from all over the world. Over 1,000 of our taught and research postgraduate students are international, from 95 different countries.
We also have a large number of academics from international backgrounds, so your learning and teaching experience will place you in a truly global and stimulating environment.
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