CALL FOR PAPERS
MEDIACITY 5 International Conference and Exhibition
1st 3rd May 2015
Plymouth University, UK
http://mediacity.i-dat.org
The theme of the fifth MEDIACITY conference is reflecting on social smart
cities.
Much of our thinking around technology and the city is based around polarising paradigms. On one hand we have the smart city agenda that is underpinned by a vision of data-centred optimisation of urban systems and on the other hand we have a open-source, citizen driven approach based around ad-hoc practices and prototyping of counter-culture scenarios.
MEDIACITY 5 International Conference and Exhibition
1st 3rd May 2015
Plymouth University, UK
http://mediacity.i-dat.org
The theme of the fifth MEDIACITY conference is reflecting on social smart
cities.
Much of our thinking around technology and the city is based around polarising paradigms. On one hand we have the smart city agenda that is underpinned by a vision of data-centred optimisation of urban systems and on the other hand we have a open-source, citizen driven approach based around ad-hoc practices and prototyping of counter-culture scenarios.
These paradigms of city visions are described variously
through terms such as “digital city, screen city, media city, sentient city,
u-city, fusion city, hybrid city, intelligent city, connectiCity, pervasive
city and the smart city” and we seek to look beyond the rhetoric and critically
reflect and imagine new models and approaches to media and the city. We want to
challenge over-simplified assumptions around terms such as smart city, and understand
in more detail the complex interactions between social actors and technological
transformations of the city. The aim of the conference is to consider more
fully the multiple, subtle, and interdependent spatio-temporalities which
together work to constitute ICT-based urban change. In particular we will
discuss models of participation, action and agency, shifting capacity to act
beyond the ‘like’ button and to take responsibility for the future shape of the
city.
The conference addresses the approaches and the corresponding
design responses that meet the challenges of social, citizen-centred, smart cities
and communities. It will offer reflective, high quality theoretical and
design-based responses to the question of how media and ICTs can create
alternative responses to current societal challenges.
Topics
We will look at urbanity and digital media and ideas of place and space and reflect on new models, landscapes and frameworks in the social smart city. We explore how ‘the city’ as a site of participation is enabled through media and technology and modes of citizen participation and agency as well as how temporal installations and urban prototyping enable us to imagine other possible futures. We will also look to the Internet of Things to explore the way in which objects increasingly become sentient actors in urban life. Through this we will address broader issues of resilience and sustainability and how these intertwine with media and technological frameworks. We provisionally propose three main sub-themes:
Topics
We will look at urbanity and digital media and ideas of place and space and reflect on new models, landscapes and frameworks in the social smart city. We explore how ‘the city’ as a site of participation is enabled through media and technology and modes of citizen participation and agency as well as how temporal installations and urban prototyping enable us to imagine other possible futures. We will also look to the Internet of Things to explore the way in which objects increasingly become sentient actors in urban life. Through this we will address broader issues of resilience and sustainability and how these intertwine with media and technological frameworks. We provisionally propose three main sub-themes:
Place
Urban Design, public place-making, network infrastructures and resilience
Urban Design, public place-making, network infrastructures and resilience
People
social participation, urban prototyping, big data and agency
social participation, urban prototyping, big data and agency
Things
The Internet of Things (IoT), sentience, social memory and networked objects.
The conference audience will be drawn from an interdisciplinary field of architecture, geography, human computer interaction, planning, media studies, art and sociology to gather and exchange multiple perspectives on common challenges.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Submissions to be uploaded to the conference’s EasyChair website:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mc5
Paper abstracts
Paper submissions are a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit an abstract for consideration. Authors of accepted abstracts will then be asked to submit a camera-ready paper prior to the conference. These will appear in the Conference proceedings. Abstracts must be a minimum of one page (500 words) and no longer than two pages (1000 words), including all additional material such as references, appendices, and figures. The abstracts must include a title, sufficient space for the author name(s) to appear on the paper, abstract and references. The review will be double-blind, so please submit abstracts in an anonymised version.
The Internet of Things (IoT), sentience, social memory and networked objects.
The conference audience will be drawn from an interdisciplinary field of architecture, geography, human computer interaction, planning, media studies, art and sociology to gather and exchange multiple perspectives on common challenges.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Submissions to be uploaded to the conference’s EasyChair website:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mc5
Paper abstracts
Paper submissions are a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit an abstract for consideration. Authors of accepted abstracts will then be asked to submit a camera-ready paper prior to the conference. These will appear in the Conference proceedings. Abstracts must be a minimum of one page (500 words) and no longer than two pages (1000 words), including all additional material such as references, appendices, and figures. The abstracts must include a title, sufficient space for the author name(s) to appear on the paper, abstract and references. The review will be double-blind, so please submit abstracts in an anonymised version.
Conference full papers will be approx. 5000-6000 words in
length and will be peer reviewed.
Posters
Poster submissions should include an abstract of no longer than one page (500 words). The abstract should state the contribution and originality of the work and make clear how the work differs from significant prior research. Posters will be shown for the duration of the main conference.
Workshops
Workshops can either be based on sharing knowledge or experience around a particular focused sub-topic or can be a skill-sharing event focused around a particular technology or methodology. Workshops will be half-day events. Proposals should be no longer than two pages and should include: the title, the list of organisers and their backgrounds, and an abstract of no more than 150 words; as well as the workshop’s theme, goals and activities; maximum number of participants, means of soliciting participation, and means of selecting participants.
Exhibition - Urban Interventions
Proposals are invited for artistic and experimental projects that explore the host city as a site of experimentation and participation. These can be a site-specific project, an event or an installation, but should focus on artistic and creative approaches to the social smart city approach and how this can have value and impact for the local citizens and organisations.
Posters
Poster submissions should include an abstract of no longer than one page (500 words). The abstract should state the contribution and originality of the work and make clear how the work differs from significant prior research. Posters will be shown for the duration of the main conference.
Workshops
Workshops can either be based on sharing knowledge or experience around a particular focused sub-topic or can be a skill-sharing event focused around a particular technology or methodology. Workshops will be half-day events. Proposals should be no longer than two pages and should include: the title, the list of organisers and their backgrounds, and an abstract of no more than 150 words; as well as the workshop’s theme, goals and activities; maximum number of participants, means of soliciting participation, and means of selecting participants.
Exhibition - Urban Interventions
Proposals are invited for artistic and experimental projects that explore the host city as a site of experimentation and participation. These can be a site-specific project, an event or an installation, but should focus on artistic and creative approaches to the social smart city approach and how this can have value and impact for the local citizens and organisations.
These interventions can feed off, play with or supplement
the data harvested from the city infrastructure through an ‘Urban API’ being developed
by i-DAT as a component of its Operating Systems. A small budget will be
available for selected projects. Proposals from artists should be no longer
than two pages and should include: a title, a short summary, bios/CV’s of the
artist(s), a 150 word description of the project, a timeline, and an outline of
how the project will engage with the local
city and the types of citizen participation.
All papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Selected authors will be invited to contribute papers to an edited book to be completed post conference.
CONTACT
If you have any questions or require further information please contact:
mediacity@plymouth.ac.uk
web: http://mediacity.i-dat.org
city and the types of citizen participation.
All papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Selected authors will be invited to contribute papers to an edited book to be completed post conference.
CONTACT
If you have any questions or require further information please contact:
mediacity@plymouth.ac.uk
web: http://mediacity.i-dat.org
Twitter: @mediacity5
IMPORTANT DATES
1st December 2014 11:59pm GMT
IMPORTANT DATES
1st December 2014 11:59pm GMT
Workshop Expressions of Interest deadline
25th January 2015 11.59 GMT (was 4th Jan)
Paper submission deadline,
Exhibition submission deadline
Exhibition submission deadline
15th February 2015 11.59 GMT
Notification of acceptance issued to authors
1st April 2015
Camera ready papers due
1st -3rd May 2015
Conference, workshops and exhibition in Plymouth, UK
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Katharine S. Willis, School of Architecture, Design and Environment, Plymouth University
Mike Phillips, Institute of Digital Art and Technology (i-DAT), Plymouth University
Alessandro Aurigi, School of Architecture, Design and Environment, Plymouth University
Gianni Corino, Institute of Digital Art and Technology (i-DAT), Plymouth University
Jointly organised by: School of Architecture, Design and Environment and Institute of Digital Art and Technology Plymouth University, UK
http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/ade/
http://i-dat.org/information/
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Katharine S. Willis, School of Architecture, Design and Environment, Plymouth University
Mike Phillips, Institute of Digital Art and Technology (i-DAT), Plymouth University
Alessandro Aurigi, School of Architecture, Design and Environment, Plymouth University
Gianni Corino, Institute of Digital Art and Technology (i-DAT), Plymouth University
Jointly organised by: School of Architecture, Design and Environment and Institute of Digital Art and Technology Plymouth University, UK
http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/ade/
http://i-dat.org/information/
