Hearing in the German Bundestag
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Rainer Noennig (TU Dresden) was also invited as an expert in the Bundestag on Wednesday in a public hearing of the Committee on Housing, Urban Development, Construction and Local Authorities on the status and prospects of the "Model Projects Smart Cities" (MPSC) funded by the Federal Government.
Prof. Noennig is the scientific director of the model project Smart City Dresden as part of the WISSENSARCHITEKTUR - Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture. The aim of the model project (2022-2026) is to develop digitization strategies in the state capital in the sense of sustainable, integrated and public welfare-oriented urban development.
"We don't have a Smart-City driver's license"
In his statement, Prof. Noennig emphasized the extraordinary importance of Smart-City basic research. There is still no Smart-City-science, we do not yet really know how digital cities work and how they should be designed. There is a lack of fundamental understanding of how digital urban systems are integrated and the long-term effects of digital transformation in an urban context. "We live in digital cities, but we don't have a Smart-City driver's license," says Noennig.
A lot of knowledge will be generated in the model projects, but it is not the task of the municipalities to generate knowledge, that is the task of science. The results of basic research must then be made transferable to planning reality in order to equip digital cities with competent experts, said Noennig. (Source: Parlamentsnachrichten Deutscher Bundestag, hib/VOM)
Model project Smart City Dresden
WISSENSARCHITEKTUR - Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture has been the scientific director of the model project Smart City Dresden since the beginning and developed the Smart-City strategy together with the state capital. During the implementation phase, the interdisciplinary working group will evaluate the progress of the project. Extensive participation formats ("Smart Participation") will be used to collect and evaluate feedback from civil society, politics, business and science. Workshop formats and networking with the national and international Smart-City community will provide the project with state-of-the-art expertise.
The video recording of the hearing and the individual statements of the experts can be found on the website of the German Bundestag:
Opportunities and obstacles in model projects "Smart Cities" I bundestag.de