Article on Smart Mobility in

Article on Smart Mobility in "Architecture and the Smart City" (Routledge 2019)

My second joint article with Vesa Vihanninjoki, "Moving in the Metropolis: Smart City Solutions and the Urban Everyday Experience" has been published in the edited volume Architecture and the Smart City (eds. Sergio M. Figueiredo, Sukanya Krishnamurthy, Torsten Schroeder, Routledge 2019).

Abstract of the article: "The omnipresence of technology in cities has had an undeniable effect on the urban everyday experience. This experience is increasingly structured by technological objects or constellations of converged technologies. Activities in a city affect how and what technologies are developed but these new and emerging technologies also have an inevitable effect on what is perceived to be the possible sphere of action. The aim of this article is to interpret and understand some of the ways in which new technologies are changing – and have already changed – the way we experience the city. The focus is on those elements of everyday experience that have a clear relation to how the c...

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New Article on Public Monuments

New Article on Public Monuments

My new open access article "New Public Monuments: Urban Art and Everyday Aesthetic Experience" has been published as part of the Topical Issue "Does Public Art Have to be Bad Art" in Open Philosophy, 2(1).

The abstract of the article:
"The role and function of public art is currently undergoing some large-scale changes. Many new artworks which are situated within the already existing urban sphere, seem to be changing the definition of public art, each in their own way. Simultaneously, there exists a trend that endorses more traditional forms of public art. Juxtaposing and comparing the aesthetic implications of different types of artworks, it is possible to see how they contribute to the contemporary understanding of the urban sphere. In this paper, I take a look at the explicit and implicit aesthetic values that these simultaneously existing contemporary forms of public art are based on. The cases selected for closer look are examples of prominent and recent works of public art f...

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