TT JuDiCe

Timetable: 01.09.2022- 31.08.2025

Project status: Finished

Funders: Suomen Akatemia

Project budget: 350 000€ - 400 000€

Project external partners: Halmstad University, The University of Westminster LBF, University of Vaasa

Project website: https://sites.utu.fi/judice/

Summary: JuDiCe bridges the gap between data justice and spatial justice and creates a completely novel understanding of how the copies of ourselves independently cruising in the digital space (our ‘data-double’) materially affect our urban everyday life. Firstly JuDiCe finds the already existing theoretical and empirical overlappings between data and spatial justice, carrying out a systematic literature review. Secondly, with mixed-methods, JuDiCe studies the ways in which individuals' data-doubles materially affect the everyday urban life. To do so, JuDiCe selects the Late Millenials as research participants, as they do not differentiate between physical and digital space. In this way, JuDiCe also acknowledges the generational gap. Finally, via co-design workshops with the research participants, JuDiCe formulates a data|spatial justice manifesto, where ethical paths bridging the gap between the digital and the physical are found to build a city that is not only smart, but also just.