Scientific publications
O. Steiner. (2026). “The making of city digital twins: the case of Dassault Systèmes.” Metropolitics, https://doi.org/10.56698/metropolitiques.2254
O. Steiner. (2025). “City Digital Twins and the Urban Laboratory: The Practice and Politics of Sandbox Urbanism.” Cities. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106261
O. Steiner. (2025). “La fabrique des jumeaux numériques urbains : le cas de Dassault Systèmes.” Métropolitiques. https://doi.org/10.56698/metropolitiques.2179
L. Silvestri, Steiner, O., Janson, P. (2025) “Laughing in the Polis: Political Expression Through Stand-Up Comedy in Paris, France.” Cambridge Journal of Political Affairs. 6(1). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16632037, cambridgepoliticalaffairs.co.uk
Iodice, S., Van Heerden, S., Barranco, R., Bertoni, E., Curtale, R. et al. (2025) “Exploring the nexus of housing, tourism, and local liveability: Insights from Paris, Milan, and Rome.” Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. JRC140885.
J. Heaulme, Pütz, V., Silvestri, L., Steiner, O. (2023). “Energy Data Across European Cities: Divergences and convergences in sharing methods and uses of urban energy data.” Sciences Po Cities and Digital Technologies Chair.
Conference papers, presentations & panels
(2026) “Infrastructure of Participation: Co-construction, Knowledge, and Local Governance in Bologna’s Digital Twin” (with Edoardo Carminucci Luca Venga). Societa Italiana di Scienza Politica Annual Conference, Trento, 3-5 September.
(2026) “Frictions and Fictions of Urban Environmental AI: On digital twins, urban governance, and the impossibility of a finished map (but the useful appeal therein).” Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference, RGS, London, 2-4 September.
(2026) “Frontiering in Place: Urban digital twins and the directionless intensification of the frontier.” International Sociological Association Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development (RC21) Annual Conference, University of Vienna, Vienna, 20-22 July .
(2026) “Smart and Stratified: Platform Capitalism and Inter-Urban Inequality” (panel organizer with Antoine Courmont). International Sociological Association Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development (RC21) Annual Conference, University of Vienna, Vienna, 20-22 July .
(2026) “Retrofitting Residues: Institutionalization through failure in the making of Singapore’s ’digital twin’” Berkeley-Brown-CEU-MaxPlanck-Northwestern-SciencesPo Doctoral Workshop in Political Economy and Economic Sociology, CEU, Vienna, 21-24 June.
(2026) “From Exhaust to Fuel: Urban Environmental Governance Beyond the Post-Politics of Green Growth” (panel organizer with Silvia Cesa-Bianchi). Annual Conference, Atelier interdisciplinaire de recherches sur l’environnement (AIRE), Sciences Po, Paris, 27 May .
(2025) “What ‘Auto’ for the City? Automation and othering in making of city autonomy.” (with Luca Venga). Exploring the Autonomy of Cities: Philosophical, Legal, and Policy Dimensions. AUP Centre for Critical Democracy Studies, Paris, 12 June.
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