1. Introduction: A Brave New World Sergio M. Figueiredo, Sukanya Krishnamurthy, Torsten Schroeder Section: Histories and Futures 2. Frictionless Futures: The Vision of Smartness and the Occlusion of Alternatives Nick Dunn, Paul Cureton (Lancaster University, United Kingdom) 3. Is the city becoming computable? Antoine Picon and Thomas Shay Hill (Harvard University, United States) 4. The Answer is "Smart" – But what was the Question? Oliver Schürer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) 5. The Trouble with Capitalist Utopia: A totalizing scheme of subsumption and planetary urbanization Angel Callander (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) 6. The Metaphor of the City as a Thinking Machine. A Complicated Relationship and its Backstory Sonja Hnilica (TU Dortmund, Germany) Section: Agency and Control 7. Hyperwwwork: Is Alexa our new Chief Happiness Officer? IoT and the Logics of Soft-Production Romain Curnier, Adrien Grigorescu (ENSA Paris Malaquais, France) 8. Soft Sibylations: GPS Navigation as Urban Speculation Benjamin W. Tippin (Torrance Art Museum, United States) 9. Intelligence and Armament Kevin Rogan (The New School - Parsons School of Design, United States) 10. The Right to the (Smart) City, Participation and Open Data Jonas Breuer, Nils Walravens, Shenja Van der Graaf, Ilse Marien (imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) 11. Scenarios of Interactive Citizenship Renata Tyszczuk (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) Section: Materialities and Spaces 12. The IdIoT in the SMART HomeDelfina Fantini van Ditmar (Royal College of Art, United Kingdom) 13. Five Strategies of Socially Smart Cities Geeta Mehta (Columbia University, United States), Shreya Malu, Merlyn Mathew (Asia Initiatives, New York, United States) 14. Politics of sensing and listening Dietmar Offenhuber (Northeastern University, United States), Sam Auinger (Independent Sound artist) 15. Recoupling Soft and Hard: Engaging Data as an Immaterial Practice Maya Przybylski (University of Waterloo, Canada) 16. Moving in the Metropolis: Smart City Solutions and the Urban Everyday Experience Sanna Lehtinen, Vesa Vihanninjoki (University of Helsinki, Finland) Section: Networks and Nodes 17. Standing Out in a Crowd: Big Data to Produce New Forms of Publicness Silvio Carta, Rebecca Onafuye (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom), Pieter de Kock (University of Lincoln, United Kingdom) 18. Operationalizing Smartness: Towards a Transdisciplinary Framework to Urban Agency Shin Alexandre Koseki (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) 19. New Sensorial Vehicles - Navigating Critical Understandings of Autonomous Futures Fiona McDermott (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Index