The KTH & Digital Futures HiSS Workshop Series

Smart cities of a digitalized society are envisioned as cyber-physical-human systems of sustainable economic growth that enhance human wellbeing. The grand challenge for designing and developing smart cities is to achieve mutually beneficial interactions between cyber and human systems where machines learn from humans and humans learn from machines. Theories of human behavior are traditionally context-dependent, specialized for economics, education, games, social interactions, management, etc. Smart cities, as cyber-physical-human systems (CPHS), set a new context for modeling and understanding human-social behavior at different levels - from neuro-cognition of individual choices to collective decisions and emergence in social networks at multiple time scales. 

A series of Workshops is planned during 2021-2025 with the overriding question: How do we effectively combine human-social decisions/choices on individual, societal, and institutional levels, to support the development and design of smart cities? The main goal of this series of workshop is to deepen our understanding of CPHS and of the interactions between CPS and humans in the context of smart cities, with the ambition to improve the societal outcomes of tomorrow. In the workshops, experts across different disciplines, ranging from control theory to neuroscience, from neuroeconomics to social sciences, are brought together to address these challenges. To this end, the invited speakers have been selected for their expertise in topics that are directly related to the HiSS Case Studies. 

The first workshop of the KTH Digital Futures HiSS project Workshop series, the 2021 HiSS Workshop, was held on September 6, September 13, and September 20, 2021, in the form of an online series of sessions, with a total of 9 international speakers.

The second workshop, the 2023 HiSS Workshop, was a hybrid event held in May 3-May 5, 2023, in Stockholm. 

The third workshop, the 2024 HiSS Workshop, will be an in-person event, planned to be held in June 3-June 4, 2024, in Stockholm. It will focus on four themes, namely, (1) All aspects of sustainability, trade-offs, one-health; (2) Test-beds (Live-In-Labs) and field studies (city-scale); (3) Policy-making; and (4) Critical perspectives. Specifically, you are invited to give a talk and participate in a panel in the session on Test-beds (Live-In-Labs) and field studies (city-scale).