The project aims to question current practices of citizen participation by exploring the possibility and actuality of developing trustworthy participation systems in smart cities and in the age of AI. The project looks at smart cities as a socio-technical construct and examines cases from around the world using various methods such as field visits to smart cities in Africa, Europe and the US, interviews, focus groups and workshops. The project reflects on the similarities and differences between smart cities in the global North and South and the participatory processes involved. Smart cities are not only understood as urban cases, but also as global development arenas. Several theoretical and analytical constructs form the framework for this project, such as the earlier work on spatial justice by Edward Soja, infrastructure citizenship by Charlotte Lemanski, the ladder of citizen participation by Arnstein and the work on the co-construction of knowledge.
Publications
- Hendawy, M., Teng Z., Pfau, J., Seif el-Nasr, M. (submitted) Visualising the Sociotechnics of Smart cities: Africa and Europe as case points, KN – Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information (KNJC).
- Hendawy, M. (submitted) Understanding Citizenship in African AI Strategies, Taking Egypt and Mauritius as case points, Working paper series, Witz University
- Hendawy, M. El Hayek, N., Kashani, A., Iyinolakan, O., and Seif El-Nasr, M. (submitted to CUPUM) Mapping Smart City Indexes overtime
- Hendawy, M. (in progress) Citizen Participation in the Age of AI, Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society – special issue on sustainable AI
- Hendawy, M., Frechen, N., Heger, P. and Bieber, C. Making Sense of the Big Data Mess – Why Interdisciplinarity Matters in Smart Cities. Submitted to easy journal.
- Hendawy, M., Lazem, S., Clarke, R. (In press) De-centring in more-than-human design: A provocation on spatial justice and urban conflict In S. Heitlinger, M. Foth, & R. Clarke (Eds.), Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities: Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press
- Hamm, A., Shibuya, Y., Pargman, T.C., Bendor, R., Hansen, N.B., Raetzsch, C., Shoji, M., Bieber, C., Hendawy, M., Klerks, G. and Schouten, B., 2023. Failed yet successful: Learning from discontinued civic tech initiatives.
- Hendawy, M., and Kormann da Silva, I., (in press) Hybrid Smartness: Seeking a Balanced Synthesis Between Top-down and Bottom-up Smart City Ideas. The 18th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM) Book.
- Hendawy, M., 2022, Spatio-Visual Co-constructions: Communication and Digitalisation of Urban planning in a mediatized world – Cairo as a glocal Case. PhD Thesis, TU Berlin, defence date: 5 August 2021, Grade Summa Cum Laude.
- Ghoz, L. and Hendawy, M., 2023. An Inventory of AI ethics: Tracing 100 documents. ENGINEERING JOURNAL, 2(2).
Teaching activities
- Smart Cities at the University of California Santa Cruz, USA (Summer 2023)
- Participation in the age of [digital] innovation at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (Spring 2023)
- Urban Engineering at Ain Shams University, Egypt (Fall 2022)
- AI ethics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (Fall 2022)
- Creative Placemaking, Purdue University, USA (Fall 2022)