CALL FOR PAPERS > > MEDIACITY 5 International Conference and Exhibition > 1st 3rd May 2015 > Plymouth University, UK > mediacity.i-dat.org > > *** deadline extension (see important dates)***** > > 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: > Place > Urban Design, public place-making, network infrastructures and resilience > People > 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://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. 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 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: > [email protected] > web: mediacity.i-dat.org > Twitter: @mediacity5 > > IMPORTANT DATES > 1st December 2014 - Workshop Expressions of Interest Deadline > *** deadline extension***** > 25th January 2015 11.59 GMT - Paper abstract submission deadline and > Exhibition submission deadline > 15th February 2015 - Notification of acceptance issues to authors > 1st April 2015 - Camera ready full 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 > www1.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/ade/ > i-dat.org/information/ > >
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