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Digital Humanities and Smart City. University as a Service and Uni-Living Lab for the City: Thinking the Case of La Rochelle Thanks to Social Sciences and Humanities

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Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities

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The methods of the social sciences (geography and present-day history) can be put to good use in a synthesis on the Smart Project in La Rochelle. The methodology applied submits to the analysis of numerous sources from the actors involved in this project, but also scientific communications dealing with the current proposal in La Rochelle (LR). It also facilitates the development of various disciplines (economics, management, computer science, ecology, sociology and other engineering, human and social sciences). The concepts of sustainability and intelligence are at the heart of this program and the issue of data allows them to be thought of jointly. This work therefore sets up an analysis aimed at clarifying the relationships to these notions and contextualizing them through various direct sources and testimonies. A comparative perspective will be put in place in relation to a similar project, in this case that of Barcelona, in order to bring out the relative deficiencies and assets of the case of La Rochelle. The case of the La Rochelle Smart City project allows a more detailed understanding of the links between urban digitization and social sciences and humanities.

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    Lecturer in management sciences at the Center for Research in Management (CEREGE) and vice-president of the Board of Directors of the University of La Rochelle.

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    It would be futile to want to produce a draft bibliography on these subjects where the issues are as numerous as multifaceted, but information and communication technologies, the Internet of Things, sensor networks, geospatial technologies, intelligence artificial or even technologies for the storage and transmission of information without a control body (blockchain) are all disciplines producing knowledge linked to the smart city.

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    For a free society, we must reduce the level of surveillance to below what the Soviet Union suffered. - a discussion between RMS, Marleen Stikker, and Francesca Bria on the need for free, fair and inclusive digital technology and infrastructures.

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    Organized jointly by the Center for Research in International and Atlantic History (CRHIA) of the University of La Rochelle.

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    Doctoral student in legal sciences, University of Lille 2, CERAPS - UMR 8026.

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    Cooperation Project Manager at the Observatory of Changes in Latin America (LOCAL).

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    Professor at the Computer Science, Image and Interaction Laboratory (L3i) at the University of La Rochelle and Vice-President of Innovation and Socio-economic Development at the University of La Rochelle.

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    Professor and director at the Computer Science, Image and Interaction Laboratory (L3i).

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Huerta, A. (2021). Digital Humanities and Smart City. University as a Service and Uni-Living Lab for the City: Thinking the Case of La Rochelle Thanks to Social Sciences and Humanities. In: Magnaghi, E., Flambard, V., Mancini, D., Jacques, J., Gouvy, N. (eds) Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60607-7_5

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