ABSTRACT
This chapter utilizes the notion of equivocation to describe complex ecologies of cooperation shaping urban governance in and around the smart city, as articulating incommensurable worlds. Equivocations are a central clue to rethink our understanding of collaborative innovation processes from one being based on univocal translations to one based on ontological multiplicity. The chapter demonstrates how equivocations around the notion of 'smart city' and the so-called city intelligence platform (CIP) shape the partnership between Siemens and the city administration, leading to a relationship of 'co-laboration', that is, joint but separate work. It argues that equivocations surrounding the goals of two urban renewal programmes are crucial to inverting the relationship of the city and the city-owned company running these programmes, from one of top-down delegation to one of subsidiarity. Finally, the chapter characterises the specific type of equivocations that hold Smarter Together.
