[ScientiFika] The recommended city: AI, democracy, and urban visibility

by Ingrid Campo-Ruiz

Friday 10 Apr 2026, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Stockholm

Floor 6 - Fika Area (Nordita Building)

How does AI shape the city before we even arrive in it?
Generative AI is becoming part of how people discover places and decide what matters in a city. What AI makes visible can gain attention and value. What stays in the background can become easier to overlook. These shifts are already influencing how cities are valued and approached, reshaping democracy, diversity, and social equality along the way.
In this talk, Ingrid Campo-Ruiz explores how AI is reshaping how people understand cities and public space. Drawing on research in architecture and AI, she examines how AI-generated recommendations and images influence what people see as worth visiting and protecting. Bringing together architecture, responsible AI, and social justice, this talk invites the audience to see AI in a new way: as a force already editing the city, its meanings, and its futures.

 

Note: This event is open to the junior audience only, including undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students, as well as postdocs.