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Subject: [RK] Fwd: call for papers
From:    "low" <loreso la oginoknauss.org>
Date:    Wed, July 18, 2007 18:16
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>
> Conference and project sponsored by the European Commission
> Marie Curie Host Fellowships for Transfer of Knowledge
> MTKD-CT-2004-517121
>
> Call for Papers, Architectural Concepts and Media Art Projects
>
> MEDIACITY - Situations, Practices and Encounters
> Conference of the MEDIACITY project
>
> Bauhaus-University Weimar
> 18-19th January 2008
>
>
> MEDIACITY - Situations, Practices and Encounters
>
> The conference will investigate how the social settings and spaces
> of the city
> are created, experienced and practiced through the use and presence
> of new
> media. We will take the position that new media enables different
> settings,
> practices and behaviours to occur in urban space. These media create
> opportunities for diverse forms of connections between people and
> spaces and
> enable and create flows; of information, of communication and of
> knowledge.
>
> The conference will consist of three parallel sessions and a
> workshop, which
> will explore these themes in a focussed way. We invite papers for
> the conference
> and less formal presentations on practices for the workshop session
> from
> academics, practitioners, activists close to disciplines such as
> media studies,
> architecture, urban studies, cultural and urban geography and
> sociology &#8211; using
> in innovative ways and reflecting critically on processes, methods
> and impacts
> of public participation and technologies in urban realm, within their
> theoretical and practical research, teaching, or activism roles.
>
>
> Session 1: Situations
> Our interactions with others can be considered as situated in that
> they are
> shaped by both the physical setting, as well as being guided by an
> implicit
> background of our own social experiences and circumstances.
> Situations are the
> settings in which people interact, and in order for this to be
> meaningful they
> must work on two levels; they must be present an imageable concept
> of physical
> space which is complimented by an awareness of how social
> interactions can take
> place in it. But communications media have affected the definition
> of situations
> so that they are no longer defined only by physical spaces with their
> corresponding meanings. The use of these technologies is becoming a
> part of
> everyday life, and the spaces of the city are becoming increasingly
> densely
> interwoven with mobile and wireless devices and networks. In the
> process, the
> often dominant cliche of the digital world; that networks enable
> people to
> communicate with 'anyone, anywhere, at any time and in any place',
> is starting
> to be replaced with a more subtle understanding of the types of
> places and
> spaces that provide the settings for our interactions. This session
> will seek to
> explore the characteristics of situations and how they create
> possibilities for
> interaction in urban space. We will investigate this on three
> levels; through
> the spaces themselves, the interactions in urban space, and also the
> technologies that mediate these interactions.
>
>
> Session 2: Practices
> Locative media, collaborative mapping and cartographies, digital
> multimedia
> narrative, participatory video making have become more widespread
> thanks to more
> affordable/omnipresent technology and to the success of open source
> tools. In
> the process they&#8217;ve opened up new possibilities for participatory
> practices
> affecting many disciplines surrounding urban studies through
> theoretical
> research, action research and activism. In particular, new media
> tools offer new
> perspectives for representing contemporary complex and
> heterogeneous urban
> dynamics, cultural and social phenomena, collective form of re-
> appropriation of
> public space. And for improving, fostering and assisting
> participatory practices
> in urban planning, including collective and individual narratives
> of the
> inhabited space.
>
> This  use of technology gives rise to open and non-conventional
> descriptions of
> contemporary cities, becoming instruments for voicing socio-
> political issues of
> marginalized or underrepresented groups, establishing active tools
> for community
> organizing. These tech options not only open possibilities for
> participatory
> practice, but also invite theoretical questions about the power of
> representation. On one hand urban planning as well as geography are
> today
> radically challenged in their history of serving elite political-
> economic power;
> on the other hand the role of those who market new technological
> innovations may
> do the same - using the rhetoric of participative urban lives to
> fuel the
> everyday business of the symbolic economy.
>
>
> Session 3: Encounters
> The connectivity of communities can be reinforced through new
> situated computing
> technologies, which lend themselves to shared  experiences, such as
> content
> sharing and collaborative interaction. For example, interplay between
> large-scale shared displays and small-scale personal mobile
> terminals, or
> physical spaces connected to online worlds. We aim to explore how
> locative media
> systems contribute towards enhancing shared experiences in everyday
> places, such
> as the streets, parks, cafes, malls, etc.
>
> The main research question is whether and how content sharing and
> collaborative
> use of locative media could facilitate social communication in
> physical space.
> In terms of scientific theory and methods, this session explores the
> relationship between architecture of physical space and media
> communication
> science. Additionally the session investigates how the use of
> locative media
> translates into business opportunity. If situated technologies are
> to achieve
> business advantage, they must capture the attention of the passer-
> by and
> motivate individual and collaborative interaction.
>
>
> Workshop: Situations, Practices and Encounters
> The workshop program will provide an opportunity to explore the
> conference
> themes in a more practical and experiential way. It will aim to
> create an open
> and informal dialogue about the topics and methods, and in so doing
> provide a
> forum for participants to share ideas, knowledge and technical
> experience. The
> workshops could cover themes such as 'capturing mobile experience,
> location-based interaction methodologies and technologies for
> community
> mapping'. Students of all levels are particularly welcome to submit
> work to the
> workshops, especially if they have demo's or explanations of
> projects with which
> they would like to present to a wider audience. The workshops will
> be an
> opportunity to gain feedback and advice on such work.
>
>
> Submission
> Please submit a paper of between 2 and 4 pages as an extended
> abstract. The
> conference language will be English. Papers will be submitted to
> external review.
>
>
> Outcomes
> Selected papers from the conference will be published in a post-
> conference volume.
>
>
> Important Dates
> 1st October 2007: Extended Abstracts dues
> 1st November 2007: Acceptance notification
> 18-19th January 2008: Conference
>
> Contact and submissions: info la mediacityproject.com
>
> Website: http://www.mediacityproject.com
>
>
> Organizers
> Prof. Frank Eckardt, Chair of Sociology of Globalization, Faculty
> of Architecture
> Prof. Jens Geelhaar, Chair of Interface Design, Faculty of Media
> Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Research Fellow
> Laura Colini, Research Fellow
> Katharine S. Willis, Research Fellow



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