Debate run in association with Wired UK Magazine, and the Apple Store, London W1

Time and date: 7pm, Thursday 8 July 2010

Venue: Apple Store, Regent Street, London W1

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) think-tank Building Futures, has brought together Wired UK magazine and the Apple Store on London's Regent Street, two of the most creative and influential brands in the UK, to host a debate on how new technology and data is affecting the way people interact with the city.

Challenging notions of the 'data-city', the debate will consider whether:

• pervasive digitial devices and open data are changing the way we interact with the city?
• access to data will speed up the divide between affluent and poorer areas?
• we are becoming 'data dandies’ - wrapped in the finest facts and the most senseless gadgets?
• open access to data is creating a 'Sin City' or 'Sim City'

Chaired by Wired UK's editor Ben Hammersley, the debate features contributions from Sci-Fi author and medical practitioner Dr Rachel Armstrong; Usman Haque of Haque Design + Research Ltd, Juliet Davis from the London School of Economics, and Susannah Hagan – Head of Research into Environmental Design, Professor of Architecture University of Brighton

Press are invited to attend this event. It is recommended that attendees arrive early to avoid disappointment - this event is not ticketed and the venue has a limited capacity.