This empirical-critical study looks at the Air Quality Egg project, a Euro-American effort focused on the collaborative creation of a “smart” air quality sensor network. While widely celebrated as a “best practice” example of bottom-up smart city making, the involvement of a US software company that turned the data platform into a full-blown for-profit service suggests a very different reading. Yet why did the project’s serving both corporate and anticorporate agendas not cause significant conflict among participants themselves? Which practices, forms of imagination, discourses, and types of experiences enabled this collaboration against all odds? This article addresses these questions by looking at the ambiguous ways the group’s meetings mobilized the principles and practices of open source, prototyping, and a focus on doing, configuring the gatherings as spaces of transformational possibility, detached from the networks, roles, and institutions of daily life.

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“我们是感知者”：智慧城市共创的（反）政治

这项实证批判性研究着眼于空气质量鸡蛋项目，这是一项欧美努力，专注于协作创建“智能”空气质量传感器网络。虽然被广泛认为是自下而上的智慧城市建设的“最佳实践”例子，但一家美国软件公司的参与将数据平台转变为全面的营利性服务，这表明了一种截然不同的解读。然而，为什么该项目同时服务于公司和反公司议程，却不会在参与者之间引起重大冲突？哪些实践、想象形式、话语和经验类型使这种合作能够克服一切困难？本文通过研究小组会议动员开源、原型设计和专注于做的原则和实践的模棱两可的方式来解决这些问题，