CFP: The Hybrid City - Subtle Revolutions (due Oct 20)

This conference is dedicated to exploring the emergent character of the city and the potential transformative shift of the urban condition, as a result of ongoing developments in ICTs. A mix of artists, designers, researchers, advocates, stakeholders and decision makers will explore the technologically mediated urban activity and experience.

Hybrid City Conference, May 23-25, 2013, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Abstracts due Oct 20, 2012.

Selected topics

• Open cities, open urban data.
• Environmental sensing and the Internet of things.
• Urban data visualization.
• Citizen science and peer production of knowledge.
• Psychosocial perspectives into the impact of locative and pervasive media use.
• Placemaking, place attachment and place identity in the hybrid city.
• Mobile commons and wireless practices.
• Public spaces and mediated presence.
• Gamifying the urban space: playful engagement and game-like citizenship.
• Hybrid spaces of conflict: forms of power and counterpower in the networked city.
• Tactical media practices in the urban context.
• From open data to data commons.
• Open source models of policy and governance.
• Emerging currencies and values.
• Issues of data ownership and copyrights in hybrid urban contexts.

Full call: http://uranus.media.uoa.gr/hc2/