But what was the question?

Essays and journal entries concerning technology and the city. Title lifted from Cedric Price’s “Technology is the answer. But what was the question?”

‘Technology is the answer. But what was the question?’ Cedric Price (1966)

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Two recent interviews on designing for technology and the city

A presentation and Q&A for Urban AI, on designing for technology and the city, and a discussion about on tech, cities, public value, capitalism and design practice for Brave UX podcast

Dan Hill
But what was the question?
2 min readSep 10, 2022

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Not long after I returned to Australia, back in May 2022, I gave a late-night (for me) presentation to the Emerging Leaders programme at Urban AI, followed by a Q&A with students. Urban AI frame the programme thus:

“Our Emerging Leaders Program is designed to educate and support young scholars and professionals working in the emerging field of Urban Artificial Intelligence. This program also aims to bring together a multidisciplinary group of participants and foster collaborations between different fields to propose a new approach to urban technologies.”

I talked about AI briefly, but technology and the city more broadly. My talk sits alongside others by the likes of Saskia Sassen, Carlo Ratti, Alex Sandy Pentland, Parag Khanna, Hélène Chartier, Abdinassir Sagar etc. Many thanks to the students for their good questions, and to Hubert Béroche of École Polytechnique for organising. Here’s the talk and Q&A:

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But what was the question?
But what was the question?

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Essays and journal entries concerning technology and the city. Title lifted from Cedric Price’s “Technology is the answer. But what was the question?”

Dan Hill
Dan Hill

Written by Dan Hill

Designer, urbanist, etc. Director of Melbourne School of Design. Previously, Swedish gov, Arup, UCL IIPP, Fabrica, Helsinki Design Lab, BBC etc

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