In the context of the Smart City Exhibition that this year took place in Barcelona, IAAC invited Fabien Girardin and Josep Perelló, both leading researchers related to the relationships between cities and technologies. During one of the IAAC courses, they participated in a round table with the MAA and MAI students, exploring the principles and consequences of the Smart City concept. These were the main issues of the event:
1. Top down and bottom up. Which is the relationship between citizen participation and public policies?
2. Sensing and acting. What is data and what is information? How can we use information to intervene in the city?
3. Open Data. Which is the public domain of data?
4. Digital and physical flows. How information affect mobility decisions?
