[Air-L] Digital Cities 6: Program & Final Call for Participation, PennState, 24 June 2009

[Marcus Foth]

Program & Final Call for Participation

Digital Cities 6: Concepts, Methods and Systems of Urban Informatics
Workshop at the 4th International Conference on Communities and  
Technologies (C&T 2009)
Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA
24 June 2009

http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/workshops.cfm
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=70107071616

If you would like to participate in this workshop (without submitting/ 
presenting a paper), some places are still available. Please let us  
know and register online at:  https://www.regonline.com/cct2009

Program (draft)

09.00 - 09.30	WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
09.30 - 09.45	de Waal, Martijn (University of Groningen, NL): The  
Urban Ideals of Location Based Media
09.50 - 10.05	Fritsch, Jonas, & Brynskov, Martin (Aarhus University,  
DK):
				Between Engagement and Information: Experimental Urban Media in  
the Climate Change Debate
10.10 - 10.25	DiSalvo, Carl, & Lukens, Jonathan (Georgia Institute of  
Technology, US):
				Seeing the City Through Machines: Non-Anthropocentric Design and  
Youth Robotics

10.25 - 10.45	MORNING TEA
10.45 - 11.00	Forlano, Laura (Yale Law School, New Haven, US): TBA
11.05 - 11.20	McCarthy, Joe (Strands Labs Seattle, US): Ambient  
Informatics in Urban Cafés
11.25 - 11.40	Foth, Marcus (Queensland University of Technology, AU):  
Urban Futures:
				A Performance based Approach to Residential Design
11.45 - 12.00	Fuller, Gillian, & Harley, Ross (University of New South  
Wales, AU):
				Contactless Contact: Reconceptualising Radio and Architecture in  
the Wireless City

12.00 - 01.00	LUNCH
01.00 - 02.00	KEYNOTE: Carlo Ratti (SENSEable City Lab, MIT, US)
02.05 - 02.20	Ojala, Timo, & Kukka, Hannu (University of Oulu, FI):
				A Digital City Needs Open Pervasive Computing Infrastructure
02.25 - 02.40	Halegoua, Germaine (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US):
				The Export of Ubiquitous Place: Investigating South Korean U-cities
02.45 - 03.00	Wong, Andrew (Telenor Research and Innovation, MY):
				Mobile Interactions as Social Machines: Young Urban Poor at Play  
in Bangladesh
03.05 - 03.20	Kirwan, Christopher Mustafa, & Travis, Sven (Parsons The  
New School for Design, US):
				UAE Urban Identities: Bridging Past Cultural Legacies with  
Emerging Urban Landscapes

03.20 - 03.40	AFTERNOON TEA
03.40 - 05.00	PLENARY DISCUSSION: Concepts, Methods and Systems of  
Urban Informatics



Organisers

Marcus Foth
Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane,  
Australia
m.foth at qut.edu.au

Laura Forlano
Kauffman Fellow in Law, Yale Law School, New Haven, USA
laura.forlano at yale.edu

Hiromitsu Hattori
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto  
University, Japan
hatto at i.kyoto-u.ac.jp



Urban Informatics group on facebook:
http://tinyurl.com/fbqutui



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Dr Marcus Foth
Senior Research Fellow

Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation
Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J)
Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia
Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG
m.foth at qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/