The future of cities, smart or not, depends on the public’s capacity and willingness to stretch their imagination and envision new sociotechnical possibilities. In this session, Roy Bendor, Assistant Professor of Critical Design in Delft University of Technology, discussed the use of speculative design as a means to disclose the malleability of urban technologies and invited seminar participants to try out an urban futuring exercise called Value Replacement Therapy.

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