
Irina AnastasiuQueensland University of Technology | QUT · School of Architecture, Design and Visual Arts
Irina Anastasiu
Doctor of Philosophy
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In their quest to access China’s lucrative consumer market, Western businesses are often entranced by the sheer scale of the country’s social media landscape. However, reducing Chinese consumers to mere statistics veiled in orientalism underestimates the continued importance of understanding their local cultural context. As part of an extensive Aus...
A large part of what makes a smartphone “smart” are its built-in location-based services: its ability to locate and be located. As researchers such as Frith (2015) have noted, the smartphone is a form of locative media, enabling the co-construction of “hybrid” physical– digital spaces and places through its geolocative infrastructures and mobile af...
Automation through smart city technology deployments and big data analytics has the potential to create more liveable, sustainable, and equitable cities. However, internationally, there are many examples of smart city developments that have attracted criticism, concerns, and community backlash over issues such as data ethics, privacy, mass surveill...
Forthcoming 2020
This article explores technological sovereignty as a way to respond to anxieties of control in digital urban contexts, and argues that this may promise a more meaningful social licence to operate smart cities. First, we present an overview of smart city developments with a critical focus on corporatisation and platform urbanism. W...
With the concept of infrastructuring as a background for our relec- tions, this paper focuses on two complementary verbiications have entered the PD vocabulary: institutioning, which describes engage- ment with institutions, and commoning, which describes engage- ment with grassroots communities ś and by extension alternative economic frameworks th...
As the hype around the Open Data movement fades, the need emerges for the conceptualisation and realisation of more sustainable, equitable and accessible Open Data practices. In this chapter, we share insights from a Code for Australia fellowship conducted in South-East Queensland, Australia.
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Henri Lefebvre’s urgent utopia of right to the city to achieve a new form of urban governance that moves beyond both capitalism and state bureaucracy seems timely with the increasing critiques of how techno-centric, top-down and corporate-driven smart cities are ill-equipped to deliver their promised civic, economic and political benefits. The expl...
We have designed a mobile application that takes advantage of the built-in features of smart phones such as camera and GPS that allow users to take geo-tagged photos while on the move. Urban residents can take pictures of broken street furniture and public property requiring repair, attach a brief description, and submit the information as a mainte...