With the lens of the hackable city, we want to highlight a vision of the city as a
site of both collaboration as well as struggle and conflicts of interests. In this
account, new media technologies enable citizens to organise, mobilise, innovate
and collaborate towards commonly defined goals. As a lens, the hackable city
aims to bring out the underlying dynamics and (sometimes conflicting) values at
stake in citymaking, as well as the concrete practices through which they are
enacted. It revolves around using the affordances of digital technologies to find
new ways to organise civic initiatives and align these with processes of
democratic governance and accountability in a society that is increasingly
technologically mediated