It was gratifying to attend Marikken Wullf-Wathe’s doctoral defense at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Marikken’s thesis Dreaming of smartness: Mobilizing, implementing and motivating the smart city provides insights on how smart city actors assemble technologies and people in specific contexts to realize particular digitalized futures. Karolina Isaksson, Marianne Millstein, and I supervised the research. Thanks to the opponent (David Pinder) and the grading committee (Katharine Willis, Guy Baeten, and Meike Schalk) for fostering a lively and thought-provoking discussion. And congratulations to Marikken!
Andrew Karvonen 