Curating smart cities

In this paper, a curatorial perspective is developed to draw attention the notion that smart cities are assembled within field of relations and thus inevitably connected constellations actors, histories, materialities ideas. way, informed by diverse disciplines such as art history, critical theory institutional critique, can be used reveal struggles through which fragmented, entangled shifting technologies, places policy ideas purposely cultivated prefigure new ways living in cities. Drawing on an in-depth longitudinal case study Milton Keynes (MK), English town founded 1967, paper examines how concepts city were together, catalyze possibly (re)configure pre-existing policies, narratives materialities, i.e. curate developments. Urban curation, understood selection, organization care for constellation elements their relation place, revealed profoundly political. Actors with local remits urban render them receptive agendas while pursuing contextually defined goals often resisting those imposed from elsewhere.