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The Hackable City: Citymaking in a Platform Society
Author(s) -
de Waal Martijn,
de Lange Michiel,
Bouw Matthijs
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2131
Subject(s) - parallels , hacker , set (abstract data type) , process (computing) , engineering , computer science , sociology , political science , human–computer interaction , computer security , operations management , programming language , operating system
Can computer hacking have positive parallels in the shaping of the built environment? The Hackable City research project was set up with this question in mind, to investigate the potential of digital platforms to open up the citymaking process. Its cofounders Martijn de Waal , Michiel de Lange and Matthijs Bouw here outline the tendencies that their studies of collaborative urban development initiatives around the world have revealed, and ask whether knowledge sharing and incremental change might be a better way forward than top‐down masterplans.