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Analog Pasts and Digital Futures:


Reflections on India’s Smart Cities Mission
17 & 18 January 2023

DAY 1: Tuesday, 17th January


Venue: Conference Room, Centre for Policy Research

9:00 am - 9:30 am Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research
Introduction Marie-Hélène Zérah, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development
(IRD)

9:30 am - 11:00 am SCM IN 2023 BETWEEN VISION AND PRACTICE


Session 1 DISCUSSANT: Stéphanie Tawa Lama, CNRS-EHESS, Centre de Sciences Humaines

Historicizing Indian Smart Cities


Persis Taraporevala, Kings College London

Exploring the “New Bottle in Old Wine” Approach of India’s Smart City Mission
Morgan Campbell, Greg Marsden, Louise Reardon, Leeds University

The City Transforms a ‘Plan’: Practiced Spaces of a Smart City


Pushkal Shivam, UN Habitat

11:00 am - 11:15 am Tea Break

11:15 am - 12:45 pm PRIVATE IMAGINATIONS OF AN URBAN FUTURE


Session 2 DISCUSSANT: Tathagatha Chatterji, Xavier University Bhubaneswar

Smart City Race: A Spatial Jolt to City Administrations in India


Harsh Mittal, OP Jindal University

Government as (paid) Service: Technology, Private Expertise and Statehood in


Indian Cities
Matthew Birkinshaw & Sanjay Srivastava, SOAS, University of London

A Typology of Smart City Consultants in India


Uttara Purandare, IIT Bombay-Monash Research Academy
12:45 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm UNPACKING COMMAND AND CONTROL ASSEMBLAGES


Session 3 DISCUSSANT: Leon Morenas, SPA, Delhi

Seeing Into the State: An Assessment of the Role of a Smart City Within a Multi-
Scalar Pandemic Response
Riby Mathew, CEPT University & Surajit Chakravarty, IIT Delhi

Command and Control Governance in the Smart Cities of India: Perceptions and
Reality-Check
Sarbeswar Praharaj, Arizona State University

The God’s Eye View of India’s Cities: Cybernetic World-Making in Command and
Control Centres
Christian Eichenmüller, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

What happens after the Smart City? Using a Decision-Analysis Heuristic to Unpack
the Implementation of the Urban Control Room in Kochi
Devika Prakash, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

DAY 2: Wednesday, 18th January


Venue: Casuarina, India Habitat Centre

9:00 am - 10:30 am DEMOCRATIC ENCOUNTERS WITH DIGITALIZATION


Session 4 DISCUSSANT: Praveen Priyadarshi, IIIT-Delhi

Can there be any more CEOs!!! Investigating Roles and Relationship Dynamics of
Political and Civil Actors in Nagpur Smart City
Chaitali Dighe, Technical University of Darmstadt

Participation as Retaliation: Responses to the Smart City Mission in Ludhiana,


Punjab
Kanchan Gandhi, Ambedkar University, Delhi

Duty Bearers and Citizens in ‘Phygital’ Futures: Local Articulations of Social


Accountability in Digital India and Digital Bangladesh, a Comparative Study
Ipshita Basu & Ripin Kalra, University of Westminster

10:30 am – 10:45 am Tea

10:45 am – 12:45 pm VARIEGATED STATE VISIONS


Session 5 DISCUSSANT: Sujata Patel, Retired Professor, University of Hyderabad

The SCM and Surveillance in Northeast India: the Perverse Appeal of Tracking
Everyone
Duncan McDuie-Ra, University of Newcastle, Australia

‘Smart Cities Mission’ in the Face of COVID: An Investigation of ‘Smart’ COVID


Responses in India
Tooran Alizadeh, Lizwin Kurian, Chakshu Bansal, Deepti Prasad, University of Sydney
“Aspiring for Estonia”: Hyderabad’s Datafied Urban Governance
Preeti Raghunath, Monash University, Malaysia

The Smart and the Non-Smart - How Odisha’s Inclusive Urban Development
Paradigm is Re-Defining “Smart”-ness
Antarin Chakrabarty, CPR & Titusz Bugya, University of Pécs

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CITY INTERPRETATIONS OF SMARTNESS


Session 6 DISCUSSANT: Josie Wittmer, University of Lausanne

‘Sensors’, ‘Solar’ and (In-) ‘Sensitivity’: The ‘Smart Solutions’ to Environmental


Challenges
Ritika Rajput, Independent Researcher

The ‘Actually Existing’ Smart City of Pune: The Role of Urban Politics
Arushi Sharan, University of Oxford

Between the Fix and the Glitch: Smart City Encounters in Chennai
Pushpa Arabindoo, University College London

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Tea

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm PANEL DISCUSSION


PANELISTS: Ms Parul Agrawala, Country Program Manager, UN-Habitat, Mr Kunal
Kumar, Joint Secretary and Mission Director, Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing
and Urban Affairs, Government of India, Mr NSN Murty, Government & Public Services
Consulting Leader, Deloitte and Dr Sameer Sharma, Chief Executive of the Chief
Minister of Andhra Pradesh (tbc)
The panel will be introduced by Marie – Hélène Zérah, French National Institute of
Research for Sustainable Development and moderated by Mukta Naik, Centre for
Policy Research

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