SCiM-MK is a social science research project which seeks to answer these questions by examining Milton Keynes as a smart city ‘in the making’. Focussing on the citizens, governance, workplaces, data and visualisations of smart, SCiM-MK will look at the social effects of smart city technologies. In particular, SCiM-MK will find out how social difference affects participation in smart, and whether smart creates new forms of social difference.