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Prof. Dr. Marcus Foth
Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia

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Marcus Foth is Professor of Urban Informatics in the QUT Design Lab, Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology. He is also an Honorary Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark, and was a 2019 Visiting Professor in the School of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Professor Foth’s research brings together people, place, and technology. His transdisciplinary work is at the international forefront of human-computer interaction research and development with a focus on smart cities, community engagement, media architecture, internet studies, ubiquitous computing, and sustainability. Professor Foth founded the Urban Informatics Research Lab in 2006 and the QUT Design Lab in 2016. Ahead of their time and before the term “smart cities” became popular, Foth pioneered a new field of study and practice: Urban informatics examines people creating, applying and using information and communication technology and data in cities and urban environments. Professor Foth has received over $8 million in competitive grants and industry funding. He received a Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Award 2013, and was inducted by the planning, design and development site Planetizen to the world’s top 25 leading thinkers and innovators in the field of urban planning and technology.

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Journal article
Published: 03 August 2021 in Journal of Industrial Information Integration
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The application of blockchain in food supply chains does not resolve conventional IoT data quality issues. Data on a blockchain may simply be immutable garbage. In response, this paper reports our observations and learnings from an ongoing beef supply chain project that integrates Blockchain and IoT for supply chain event tracking and beef provenance assurance and proposes two solutions for data integrity and trust in the Blockchain and IoT-enabled food supply chain. Rather than aiming for absolute truth, we explain how applying the notion of ‘common knowledge’ fundamentally changes oracle identity and data validity practices. Based on the learnings derived from leading an IoT supply chain project with a focus on beef exports from Australia to China, our findings unshackle IoT and Blockchain from being used merely to collect lag indicators of past states and liberate their potential as lead indicators of desired future states. This contributes: (a) to limit the possibility of capricious claims on IoT data performance, and; (b) to utilise mechanism design as an approach by which supply chain behaviours that increase the probability of desired future states being realised can be encouraged.

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Warwick Powell; Marcus Foth; Shoufeng Cao; Valéri Natanelov. Garbage in garbage out: The precarious link between IoT and blockchain in food supply chains. Journal of Industrial Information Integration 2021, 100261 .

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Warwick Powell, Marcus Foth, Shoufeng Cao, Valéri Natanelov. Garbage in garbage out: The precarious link between IoT and blockchain in food supply chains. Journal of Industrial Information Integration. 2021; ():100261.

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Warwick Powell; Marcus Foth; Shoufeng Cao; Valéri Natanelov. 2021. "Garbage in garbage out: The precarious link between IoT and blockchain in food supply chains." Journal of Industrial Information Integration , no. : 100261.

Research article
Published: 16 May 2021 in Australian Planner
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Institutional realities often limit participatory planning practice from reaching its full potential. Rather than continuing to improve participatory approaches and methods in isolation, we studied whether there is merit in extending the repertoire of planning knowledge and skills to encompass a focus on the broader institutional decision-making processes. By interviewing a diverse range of experts working in the Queensland planning context, the research sought to understand different types of clashes between participatory planning practices and institutional cultures. Interviewees shared their personal experiences and strategies that helped them traverse institutional processes and constraints. This confirmed that there is already a wealth of tacitly held skills, which have not yet been formalised. Our data analysis found that planning practice may be improved by attenuating the disparity between external messaging and internal practices, and by enabling planning practitioners to better utilise informal institutional structures. Intermediation is proposed as a skillset to formalise planners’ tacitly held interpersonal and political literacy and acumen, and equip them to better navigate and negotiate institutional structures and constraints.

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Nicholas Kamols; Marcus Foth; Mirko Guaralda. Beyond engagement theatre: challenging institutional constraints of participatory planning practice. Australian Planner 2021, 1 -13.

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Nicholas Kamols, Marcus Foth, Mirko Guaralda. Beyond engagement theatre: challenging institutional constraints of participatory planning practice. Australian Planner. 2021; ():1-13.

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Nicholas Kamols; Marcus Foth; Mirko Guaralda. 2021. "Beyond engagement theatre: challenging institutional constraints of participatory planning practice." Australian Planner , no. : 1-13.

Research article
Published: 21 January 2021 in Journal of Urban Design
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New digital and remote work practices challenge city planning and urban design as they move economic activities from city centres to residential suburbs. Little is known about the spatial impact of these new work patterns on suburbia. This paper addresses this knowledge gap through a design charrette conducted in the City of Gold Coast, Australia. Despite often working individually, remote workers favour design interventions that facilitate a transformation of suburbia towards multi-use. Urban design strategies supporting new work practices in residential neighbourhoods can enable better collaboration and innovation, create new opportunities for third spaces, and unlock a city’s competitive advantage.

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Matthew Zenkteler; Marcus Foth; Gregory Hearn. The role of residential suburbs in the knowledge economy: insights from a design charrette into nomadic and remote work practices. Journal of Urban Design 2021, 26, 422 -440.

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Matthew Zenkteler, Marcus Foth, Gregory Hearn. The role of residential suburbs in the knowledge economy: insights from a design charrette into nomadic and remote work practices. Journal of Urban Design. 2021; 26 (4):422-440.

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Matthew Zenkteler; Marcus Foth; Gregory Hearn. 2021. "The role of residential suburbs in the knowledge economy: insights from a design charrette into nomadic and remote work practices." Journal of Urban Design 26, no. 4: 422-440.

Chapter
Published: 05 January 2021 in E-Democracy for Smart Cities
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Automation through smart city technology deployments and big data analytics has the potential to create more liveable, sustainable, and equitable cities. However, internationally, there are many examples of smart city developments that have attracted criticism, concerns, and community backlash over issues such as data ethics, privacy, mass surveillance, commodification, and social control. In response, this chapter presents DataCare—a model for cities to practically implement technological sovereignty as a way to renew and maintain the social licence to operate smart city technology. Grounded in a critical review of the literature, the chapter argues that data collection and automation in smart cities must be more citizen and community-oriented. Informed by smart city developments in Toronto and Barcelona, the chapter introduces DataCare—a model for a dedicated facility hosted by the city and offered to citizens, communities, and businesses. The envisaged DataCare space can be tailored to raise awareness of data ethics, to run data literacy training seminars, to engage in participatory data analytics, and to speculate about city data futures. DataCare aims to increase data transparency and autonomy, showcase new business opportunities, and empower citizens and community.

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Marcus Foth; Irina Anastasiu; Monique Mann; Peta Mitchell. From Automation to Autonomy: Technological Sovereignty for Better Data Care in Smart Cities. E-Democracy for Smart Cities 2021, 319 -343.

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Marcus Foth, Irina Anastasiu, Monique Mann, Peta Mitchell. From Automation to Autonomy: Technological Sovereignty for Better Data Care in Smart Cities. E-Democracy for Smart Cities. 2021; ():319-343.

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Marcus Foth; Irina Anastasiu; Monique Mann; Peta Mitchell. 2021. "From Automation to Autonomy: Technological Sovereignty for Better Data Care in Smart Cities." E-Democracy for Smart Cities , no. : 319-343.

Perspective
Published: 15 December 2020 in Sustainability
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made many urban policymakers, planners, and scholars, all around the globe, rethink conventional, neoliberal growth strategies of cities. The trend of rapid urbanization, particularly around capital cities, has been questioned, and alternative growth models and locations have been the subjects of countless discussions. This is particularly the case for the Australian context: The COVID-19 pandemic heightened the debates in urban circles on post-pandemic urban growth strategies and boosting the growth of towns and cities across regional Australia is a popular alternative strategy. While some scholars argue that regional Australia poses an invaluable opportunity for post-pandemic growth by ‘taking off the pressure from the capital cities’; others warn us about the risks of growing regional towns and cities without carefully designed national, regional, and local planning, design, and development strategies. Superimposing planning and development policies meant for metropolitan cities could simply result in transferring the ills of capital cities to regions and exacerbate unsustainable development and heightened socioeconomic inequalities. This opinion piece, by keeping both of these perspectives in mind, explores approaches to regional community and economic development of Australia’s towns and cities, along with identifying sustainable urban growth locations in the post-pandemic era. It also offers new insights that could help re-shape the policy debate on regional growth and development.

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Mirko Guaralda; Greg Hearn; Marcus Foth; Tan Yigitcanlar; Severine Mayere; Lisa Law. Towards Australian Regional Turnaround: Insights into Sustainably Accommodating Post-Pandemic Urban Growth in Regional Towns and Cities. Sustainability 2020, 12, 10492 .

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Mirko Guaralda, Greg Hearn, Marcus Foth, Tan Yigitcanlar, Severine Mayere, Lisa Law. Towards Australian Regional Turnaround: Insights into Sustainably Accommodating Post-Pandemic Urban Growth in Regional Towns and Cities. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (24):10492.

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Mirko Guaralda; Greg Hearn; Marcus Foth; Tan Yigitcanlar; Severine Mayere; Lisa Law. 2020. "Towards Australian Regional Turnaround: Insights into Sustainably Accommodating Post-Pandemic Urban Growth in Regional Towns and Cities." Sustainability 12, no. 24: 10492.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2020 in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
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This study aimed to strengthen trust in the cross-border beef supply chain between Australia and China from a consumer perspective based on a blockchain-based supply chain implementation. Using a design science approach, this study’s initial prototype was developed to strength consumer trust. The study was conducted in partnership with Australian agricultural producers and processors, and empirically tested with Chinese consumers using an exploratory, qualitative methodology comprising focus groups. Based on the empirical evidence from prototype testing and the insights from supply chain stakeholders, this paper explores new features for a human-machine reconcile mechanism that enables shared responsibilities between agriculture and supply chain actors in delivering credentialed traceability data to consumers along the Australia-China beef supply chain.

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Shoufeng Cao; Warwick Powell; Marcus Foth; Valeri Natanelov; Thomas Miller; Uwe Dulleck. Strengthening consumer trust in beef supply chain traceability with a blockchain-based human-machine reconcile mechanism. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 2020, 180, 105886 .

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Shoufeng Cao, Warwick Powell, Marcus Foth, Valeri Natanelov, Thomas Miller, Uwe Dulleck. Strengthening consumer trust in beef supply chain traceability with a blockchain-based human-machine reconcile mechanism. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 2020; 180 ():105886.

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Shoufeng Cao; Warwick Powell; Marcus Foth; Valeri Natanelov; Thomas Miller; Uwe Dulleck. 2020. "Strengthening consumer trust in beef supply chain traceability with a blockchain-based human-machine reconcile mechanism." Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 180, no. : 105886.

Book chapter
Published: 20 November 2020 in Shaping Smart for Better Cities
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Place and place experiences play a role in both the tourism industry more broadly and peer-to-peer accommodation networks such as Airbnb specifically. Peer-to-peer accommodation platforms are a cornerstone of smart cities and the sharing economy; their impact on place and placemaking is still largely untested, with evidence that an indiscriminate commercial focus on tourism growth can affect the habitability of cities and the quality of public space. This chapter presents a critical assessment to rethink the impact that peer-to-peer accommodation networks have on place experiences and placemaking, focusing on three themes: (a) the urban ecosystem, (b) place authenticity and “localhood,” and (c) a city’s diversity advantage. As a way to illustrate our argument and to ground it in an empirical case, we introduce firsthand place and tourism experiences from the city of Split in Croatia. We synthesize our argument across the three themes with a view to expand transdisciplinary knowledge into urban studies and smart cities. The chapter concludes with emerging recommendations for placemaking approaches, policy, and regulatory reform as well as industry and platform innovation.

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Marcus Foth; Ana Bilandzic; Mirko Guaralda. The impact of peer-to-peer accommodation on place authenticity: A placemaking perspective. Shaping Smart for Better Cities 2020, 283 -306.

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Marcus Foth, Ana Bilandzic, Mirko Guaralda. The impact of peer-to-peer accommodation on place authenticity: A placemaking perspective. Shaping Smart for Better Cities. 2020; ():283-306.

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Marcus Foth; Ana Bilandzic; Mirko Guaralda. 2020. "The impact of peer-to-peer accommodation on place authenticity: A placemaking perspective." Shaping Smart for Better Cities , no. : 283-306.

Conference paper
Published: 03 July 2020 in Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
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Over a one-month period we ran an in-home study exploring the notions of frugality, resources conservation, and sufficiency amongst 40 urban and regional households across Australia. We used a Research-through-Design approach, adopting the design-led method of design research artefacts, which were all created from discarded items of household waste. What followed was an extremely rewarding but overwhelming time, which culminated in the return of 1,300 individual artefacts from our study participants. This pictorial illustrates and discusses our struggles to extract insights from this vast amount of data produced by this exploratory study and justify our findings. As such, this pictorial contains learnings from our experience deploying, receiving, sorting, and then analysing an overwhelming amount of design research artefacts to study everyday resource sufficiency in the home.

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Heather McKinnon; Marcus Foth; Gavin Sade. 1300 Pieces of Rubbish. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020, 1 .

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Heather McKinnon, Marcus Foth, Gavin Sade. 1300 Pieces of Rubbish. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 2020; ():1.

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Heather McKinnon; Marcus Foth; Gavin Sade. 2020. "1300 Pieces of Rubbish." Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference , no. : 1.

Research article
Published: 29 June 2020 in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
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This article explores technological sovereignty as a way to respond to anxieties of control in digital urban contexts, and argues that this may promise a more meaningful social license to operate smart cities. First, we present an overview of smart city developments with a critical focus on corporatization and platform urbanism. We critique Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs development in Toronto, which faces public backlash from the #BlockSidewalk campaign in response to concerns over not just privacy, but also lack of community consultation, the prospect of the city losing its civic ability to self‐govern, and its repossession of public land and infrastructure. Second, we explore what a more responsible smart city could look like, underpinned by technological sovereignty, which is a way to use technologies to promote individual and collective autonomy and empowerment via ownership, control, and self‐governance of data and technologies. To this end, we juxtapose the Sidewalk Labs development in Toronto with the Barcelona Digital City plan. We illustrate the merits (and limits) of technological sovereignty moving toward a fairer and more equitable digital society.

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Monique Mann; Peta Mitchell; Marcus Foth; Irina Anastasiu. #BlockSidewalkto Barcelona: Technological sovereignty and the social license to operate smart cities. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 2020, 71, 1103 -1115.

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Monique Mann, Peta Mitchell, Marcus Foth, Irina Anastasiu. #BlockSidewalkto Barcelona: Technological sovereignty and the social license to operate smart cities. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 2020; 71 (9):1103-1115.

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Monique Mann; Peta Mitchell; Marcus Foth; Irina Anastasiu. 2020. "#BlockSidewalkto Barcelona: Technological sovereignty and the social license to operate smart cities." Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 71, no. 9: 1103-1115.

Conference paper
Published: 15 June 2020 in Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1
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With the concept of infrastructuring as a background for our reflections, this paper focuses on two complementary verbifications have entered the PD vocabulary: institutioning, which describes engagement with institutions, and commoning, which describes engagement with grassroots communities – and by extension alternative economic frameworks that challenge the status quo. We contribute to this discourse to reflect, theoretically, on themes emerging from the triad of relationships between designers, institutions, and grassroots communities. We do so presenting ‘tales’, excerpts of our own PD work with institutions and grassroots communities. In this way, we present a nascent conceptual framework that offers analytical potential to promote pluralist understandings of PD scholarship and practices.

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Maurizio Teli; Marcus Foth; Mariacristina Sciannamblo; Irina Anastasiu; Peter Lyle. Tales of Institutioning and Commoning. Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1 2020, 1 .

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Maurizio Teli, Marcus Foth, Mariacristina Sciannamblo, Irina Anastasiu, Peter Lyle. Tales of Institutioning and Commoning. Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1. 2020; ():1.

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Maurizio Teli; Marcus Foth; Mariacristina Sciannamblo; Irina Anastasiu; Peter Lyle. 2020. "Tales of Institutioning and Commoning." Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1 , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 08 June 2020 in Land Use Policy
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Creative hotspots have become a key driver for urban policies to stimulate social, cultural, environmental and organisational growth of creative and knowledge-based clusters, districts and hubs. However, their functional and spatial characteristics vary due to their different evolving structure as new spaces of economic activity in different contexts. This article points to a consideration of new foci for both land use and urban economic policy through a mapping of formal and informal creative hotspots in Brisbane, Australia. The study found two distinctive development patterns: (a) earlier top-down approaches as instigated by national and international innovation policies, and; (b) recently emerging bottom-up spaces for creativity, knowledge and innovation practices. This study examines how formal creative strategies and emerging informal creative spaces shape cities and urban policies. The methodology comprises online data collection and a review of creative and knowledge strategies and implementation policies. Data was then analysed via multiple mapping techniques illustrating the spatial distribution of creative hotspots, formal and informal formations, scale and land use characteristics. The research findings consolidate our understanding of Brisbane’s creative ecosystem and suggest new urban policy mechanisms to better foster the interrelationship between top-down and bottom-up approaches in cities, that is, between formally planned and large-scale interventions and small-scale organic and informal creative activities.

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Onur Mengi; Ana Bilandzic; Marcus Foth; Mirko Guaralda. Mapping Brisbane’s Casual Creative Corridor: Land use and policy implications of a new genre in urban creative ecosystems. Land Use Policy 2020, 97, 104792 .

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Onur Mengi, Ana Bilandzic, Marcus Foth, Mirko Guaralda. Mapping Brisbane’s Casual Creative Corridor: Land use and policy implications of a new genre in urban creative ecosystems. Land Use Policy. 2020; 97 ():104792.

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Onur Mengi; Ana Bilandzic; Marcus Foth; Mirko Guaralda. 2020. "Mapping Brisbane’s Casual Creative Corridor: Land use and policy implications of a new genre in urban creative ecosystems." Land Use Policy 97, no. : 104792.

Research article
Published: 18 May 2020 in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
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In the digital era of big data, data analytics and smart cities, a new generation of planning support systems is emerging. The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer is a novel planning support system developed to help planners and policy-makers determine the likely land value uplift associated with the provision of new city infrastructure. The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer toolkit was developed following a user-centred research approach including iterative design, prototyping and evaluation. Tool development was informed by user inputs obtained through a series of co-design workshops with two end-user groups: land valuers and urban planners. The paper outlines the underlying technical architecture of the toolkit, which has the ability to perform rapid calculations and visualise the results, for the end-users, through an online mapping interface. The toolkit incorporates an ensemble of hedonic pricing models to calculate and visualise value uplift and so enable the user to explore what if? scenarios. The toolkit has been validated through an iterative case study approach. Use cases were related to two policy areas: property and land valuation processes (for land taxation purposes) and value uplift scenarios (for value capture purposes). The cases tested were in Western Sydney, Australia. The paper reports on the results of the ordinary least square linear regressions – used to explore the impacts of hedonic attributes on property value at the global level – and geographically weighted regressions – developed to provide local estimates and explore the varying spatial relationships between attributes and house price across the study area. Building upon the hedonic modelling, the paper also reports the value uplift functionality of the Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer toolkit that enables users to drag and drop new train stations and rapidly calculate expected property prices under a range of future transport scenarios. The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer toolkit is believed to be the first of its kind to provide this specific functionality. As it is problem and policy specific, it can be considered an example of the next generation of data-driven planning support system.

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Chris Pettit; Y Shi; H Han; Markus Rittenbruch; M Foth; S Lieske; R Van Den Nouwelant; P Mitchell; S Leao; Bryce Christensen; M Jamal. A new toolkit for land value analysis and scenario planning. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 2020, 47, 1490 -1507.

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Chris Pettit, Y Shi, H Han, Markus Rittenbruch, M Foth, S Lieske, R Van Den Nouwelant, P Mitchell, S Leao, Bryce Christensen, M Jamal. A new toolkit for land value analysis and scenario planning. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 2020; 47 (8):1490-1507.

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Chris Pettit; Y Shi; H Han; Markus Rittenbruch; M Foth; S Lieske; R Van Den Nouwelant; P Mitchell; S Leao; Bryce Christensen; M Jamal. 2020. "A new toolkit for land value analysis and scenario planning." Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 47, no. 8: 1490-1507.

Report
Published: 01 May 2020 in BeefLedger blockchain-credentialed beef exports to China: Early consumer insights
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The BeefLedger Export Smart Contracts project is a collaborative research study between BeefLedger Ltd and QUT co-funded by the Food Agility CRC. This project exists to deliver economic value to those involved in the production, export and consumption of Australian beef to China through: (1) reduced information asymmetry; (2) streamlined compliance processes, and; (3) developing and accessing new data-driven value drivers, through the deployment of decentralised ledger technologies and associated governance systems. This report presents early insights from a survey deployed to Chinese consumers in Nov/Dec 2019 exploring attitudes and preferences about blockchain-credentialed beef exports to China. Our results show that most local and foreign consumers were willing to pay more than the reference price for a BeefLedger branded Australian cut and packed Sirloin steak at the same weight. Although considered superior over Chinese processed Australian beef products, the Chinese market were sceptical that the beef they buy was really from Australia, expressing low trust in Australian label and traceability information. Despite lower trust, most survey respondents were willing to pay more for traceability supported Australian beef, potentially because including this information provided an additional sense of safety. Therefore, traceability information should be provided to consumers, as it can add a competitive advantage over products without traceability.

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Shoufeng Cao; Qut Design Lab; Uwe Dulleck; Warwick Powell; Charles Turner-Morris; Valeri Natanelov; Marcus Foth. BeefLedger blockchain-credentialed beef exports to China: Early consumer insights. BeefLedger blockchain-credentialed beef exports to China: Early consumer insights 2020, 1 .

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Shoufeng Cao, Qut Design Lab, Uwe Dulleck, Warwick Powell, Charles Turner-Morris, Valeri Natanelov, Marcus Foth. BeefLedger blockchain-credentialed beef exports to China: Early consumer insights. BeefLedger blockchain-credentialed beef exports to China: Early consumer insights. 2020; ():1.

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Shoufeng Cao; Qut Design Lab; Uwe Dulleck; Warwick Powell; Charles Turner-Morris; Valeri Natanelov; Marcus Foth. 2020. "BeefLedger blockchain-credentialed beef exports to China: Early consumer insights." BeefLedger blockchain-credentialed beef exports to China: Early consumer insights , no. : 1.

Book chapter
Published: 27 March 2020 in The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities
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Carlos Estrada-Grajales; Marcus Foth; Peta Mitchell; Glenda Amayo Caldwell. The museum in the smart city. The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities 2020, 332 -348.

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Carlos Estrada-Grajales, Marcus Foth, Peta Mitchell, Glenda Amayo Caldwell. The museum in the smart city. The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities. 2020; ():332-348.

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Carlos Estrada-Grajales; Marcus Foth; Peta Mitchell; Glenda Amayo Caldwell. 2020. "The museum in the smart city." The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities , no. : 332-348.

Chapter
Published: 03 March 2020 in Handbuch Soziale Praktiken und Digitale Alltagswelten
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The proliferation of digital connectivity and mobility is having a profound impact on collaboration practices and coworking spaces in urban environments. This chapter focuses on nomadic patterns of designers, freelancers, hackers, and creative professionals, and seeks to map the urban spaces that they occupy and navigate in order to go about their work practices. After a brief introduction on the use of office space and recently emerged city bound working practices, we first review previous studies and current literature about the impact of digital connectivity and mobility on collaboration and coworking spaces. Two cases (the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto, Canada, and The Edge, a digital culture centre at the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia) will be introduced as examples of social practices in, and uses/employments of coworking and collaboration spaces. The subsequent discussion of best practices and future designs of collaboration and coworking spaces will focus on three distinct themes: First, the tension between universal vs specialised demands on space; second, the need for perpetual messiness, and; third, the unfolding urban ecology of work spaces. Finally, we will conclude with some considerations on the configuration and promotion of collaborative working practices especially with regards to urban planning.

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Marcus Foth; Laura Forlano; Mark Bilandzic. Mapping New Work Practices in the Smart City. Handbuch Soziale Praktiken und Digitale Alltagswelten 2020, 169 -181.

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Marcus Foth, Laura Forlano, Mark Bilandzic. Mapping New Work Practices in the Smart City. Handbuch Soziale Praktiken und Digitale Alltagswelten. 2020; ():169-181.

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Marcus Foth; Laura Forlano; Mark Bilandzic. 2020. "Mapping New Work Practices in the Smart City." Handbuch Soziale Praktiken und Digitale Alltagswelten , no. : 169-181.

Articles
Published: 12 January 2020 in Architectural Science Review
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The ready availability and widespread deployment of IoT devices and sensors enable a high granularity of quantitative data to be collected to give a real-time appraisal of a building’s environmental performance. Rating and assessment frameworks are increasingly taking advantage of insights that can be derived from both new building technology and big data analytics. Yet, climate change action requires new perspectives that move towards a post-anthropocentric and more-than-human viewpoint. This paper makes a threefold contribution. In order to highlight a gap, we (1) critique select Green Building Rating Tools, (2) contrast current achievements and targets with what climate change action demands of the built environment’s performance; and (3) we discuss several causes for the disconnect between actual and aspirational ends of the performance measurement spectrum and offer some possible responses and actions with a view to stimulate scholarly debate and engagement to leapfrog the performance of the built environment.

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Susan Loh; Marcus Foth; Glenda Amayo Caldwell; Veronica Garcia-Hansen; Mark Thomson. A more-than-human perspective on understanding the performance of the built environment. Architectural Science Review 2020, 63, 372 -383.

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Susan Loh, Marcus Foth, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Veronica Garcia-Hansen, Mark Thomson. A more-than-human perspective on understanding the performance of the built environment. Architectural Science Review. 2020; 63 (3-4):372-383.

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Susan Loh; Marcus Foth; Glenda Amayo Caldwell; Veronica Garcia-Hansen; Mark Thomson. 2020. "A more-than-human perspective on understanding the performance of the built environment." Architectural Science Review 63, no. 3-4: 372-383.

Conference paper
Published: 02 December 2019 in Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction
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Joel Fredericks; Callum Parker; Glenda Amayo Caldwell; Marcus Foth; Hilary Davis; Martin Tomitsch. Designing Smart for Sustainable Communities. Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction 2019, 1 .

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Joel Fredericks, Callum Parker, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Marcus Foth, Hilary Davis, Martin Tomitsch. Designing Smart for Sustainable Communities. Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction. 2019; ():1.

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Joel Fredericks; Callum Parker; Glenda Amayo Caldwell; Marcus Foth; Hilary Davis; Martin Tomitsch. 2019. "Designing Smart for Sustainable Communities." Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 02 December 2019 in Journal of Information Literacy
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This paper proposes social living labs for informed learning as an innovative approach to interprofessional and community education. It presents a new conceptual model and practice framework suited to rapidly changing, information-intensive work and social environments. The proposed approach is theoretically informed and evidence based. It integrates concepts from three complementary fields: Informed learning as information literacy pedagogy that enables using information critically and creatively to learn (information science); interprofessional education as a professional learning model with a cross-disciplinary and community reach (health sciences/medicine); and social living labs as informal learning context and problem-solving process (community development). After reviewing relevant literature, the paper introduces the concepts and research that underpin social living labs for informed learning. Then it presents a new conceptual model and a practice framework to guide their design and implementation. To illustrate the practical application of this approach, a hypothetical scenario envisages health practitioners, librarians and community members collaborating in a social living lab to address health and social challenges related to child obesity. The paper concludes by discussing anticipated benefits and limitations of the approach and possible wider application. As a contribution to theory, the paper uncovers a previously unrecognised synergy between the principles of informed learning, social living labs and interprofessional education. Supporting information literacy research and practice, the paper identifies a significant role for informed learning in community and professional education, and a novel strategy for health information literacy development. The paper is of interest to educators, researchers, and practitioners across information literacy, community development, healthcare, and other professional fields.

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Hilary Hughes; Marcus Foth; Kerry Mallan. Social living labs for informed learning. Journal of Information Literacy 2019, 13, 112 .

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Hilary Hughes, Marcus Foth, Kerry Mallan. Social living labs for informed learning. Journal of Information Literacy. 2019; 13 (2):112.

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Hilary Hughes; Marcus Foth; Kerry Mallan. 2019. "Social living labs for informed learning." Journal of Information Literacy 13, no. 2: 112.

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Published: 26 November 2019 in Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity
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In Australia, demographer Bernard Salt (2016) coined the term “e-change” to describe a new social movement of people moving from metropolitan to regional cities seeking better lifestyles, more happiness closer to nature, and decreased living costs. This suggests that the new urban crisis in metropolitan areas may in turn cause a revival of regional areas that comes with new economic and socio-cultural opportunities. Fabrication laboratories (Fab Labs), makerspaces, living labs, and open innovation 2.0 are terms used to describe parts of the open innovation ecosystem that aims to involve more people in creativity and innovation. For instance, Fab Labs give lay people access to digital fabrication tools such as 3D printers, CNC machines, and laser cutters, which process a wide range of materials to “make (almost) anything” in the Fab Labs (Gershenfeld 2005). They seek to provide individuals with opportunities to be creative, invent, and innovate smart designs for themselves, hence, offer them an informal platform to find, practice, and follow their personal desires and interests alongside their peers. Besides the technical affordances of Fab Labs, they also carry social qualities and implications. Fab Labs aim to welcome innovative people who want to shape the knowledge economy within a safe environment for learning from and with peers and mentors. This chapter discusses the role of Fab Labs and Living Labs in regional Australia for providing opportunities for creativity and innovation. It analyses rich insights gained from critically evaluating specific innovation hubs and Living Labs in three regional locations (iNQ in Townsville; The Old Ambulance Station in Nambour; and Substation33 in Logan) through a triad analytical lens of people, place, and technology. These labs as innovation ‘skunkworks’ have implications for changing and reforming regional economic development policies insofar as they broaden assumptions of what traditionally counts as entrepreneurial and how incubation spaces should function.

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Ana Bilandzic; Marcus Foth; Greg Hearn. The role of Fab Labs and Living Labs for economic development of regional Australia. Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity 2019, 174 -197.

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Ana Bilandzic, Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn. The role of Fab Labs and Living Labs for economic development of regional Australia. Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity. 2019; ():174-197.

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Ana Bilandzic; Marcus Foth; Greg Hearn. 2019. "The role of Fab Labs and Living Labs for economic development of regional Australia." Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity , no. : 174-197.

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Published: 10 October 2019 in Second International Handbook of Internet Research
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In cities, when combined with ubiquitous mobile media and location-based services, algorithmic culture has been seen to exacerbate the problem of software-sorted geographies, that is, a conjunction of code and space that algorithmically “orchestrates inequalities through technological systems embedded within urban environments” (Graham 2005, p. 562). The mediated geographies served to us via locative devices and urban media might, for instance, show us only the city an algorithm assumes we want to see. This chapter examines some of the touch points between the software-sorted city and its citizens, looking at both sides: On the one hand, algorithmic curation and selection render automated variations of the city. On the other hand, there are opportunities to explore, tinkering with algorithmic culture to bring about a diversity dividend and increased innovation capacity in cities. In order to do so, cities must provide appropriate interfaces. Such urban computing, urban informatics, and urban media interfaces include location-based applications on mobile phones used in the city as well as urban screens, public displays, and forms of media architecture, such as interactive media façades and installations. The chapter is structured in three parts. It first offers a critical review of the relationship between the internet and the city and in doing so, it outlines the basic premises of big data analytics and algorithms in the context of urban informatics that have given rise to the new field of urban science. It then turns to the socio-cultural implications and issues arising from algorithmic culture. In the third section, we discuss urban imaginaries and novel ways that some of the software tools underpinning algorithmic culture in the here and now can also give rise to new practices of imagining the future city.

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Marcus Foth; Peta Mitchell; Carlos Estrada-Grajales. Today’s Internet for Tomorrow’s Cities: On Algorithmic Culture and Urban Imaginaries. Second International Handbook of Internet Research 2019, 725 -746.

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Marcus Foth, Peta Mitchell, Carlos Estrada-Grajales. Today’s Internet for Tomorrow’s Cities: On Algorithmic Culture and Urban Imaginaries. Second International Handbook of Internet Research. 2019; ():725-746.

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Marcus Foth; Peta Mitchell; Carlos Estrada-Grajales. 2019. "Today’s Internet for Tomorrow’s Cities: On Algorithmic Culture and Urban Imaginaries." Second International Handbook of Internet Research , no. : 725-746.