OVERVIEW OF THE PRESENTED PAPERS
13th Planning and Complexity Thematic Group Meeting Tampere 15th-16th January 2015 COMPLEXITY and DIGITALISATION OF CITIES – CHALLENGES FOR URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN
Thursday 15th of January
Keynote Lecture
- Prof. Itzhak Benenson, We cannot forecast the future, but who cares? Determinism of parts versus indeterminism of a whole in the era of big data
Discussion
Session 1. Urban evolution: rules, patterns and codes in complex cities
- Mee, Alan: Complex adaptive spatial systems for urban design
- Coquillat, Pablo: Evolutionary Theory of Urban Change
- Kuecker, Glen: New Songdo City: A Case Study in Complexity Thinking and Ubiquitous Urban Design
Discussion
Friday 16th of January
Session 2. Complexity and planning 1: comprehensive reviews
- De Roo, Gert: 'Post-policy, collectives and the virtual'
- Partanen Jenni: Complexity: Epistemological review
- Rantanen, Annuska: Exploring a pattern based design tool to increase the resilience of retail in digitalised cities: conceptual guidelines
Discussion
Session 3. Virtual cities meet corporeal urban space: interconnected digital/physical webs Deni, Suleiman: Virtual communities and patterns of social internations in the ‘Tech City’
- Unalan, Dilek: Digitalization of Cities from Semiotic Coevolutionary Perspective
- Saleh, Mohamed: Unfolding the Story: Informal Communities Thriving by Self-Organization throughout the Egyptian Revolution
Discussion
Session 4. Virtual platforms in planning - digitalization and new methods of participation
Devish, Oswald; Jeremiah Diephuis, Katharina Gugerell, Martin Berger and Martina Jauschneg: Game Mechanics for Civic Participation in Digitized Cities
Senugpta, Ulysses: Participation, Governance & Resilience in the Age of Big Data Silva, Paulo: Participatory processes and digital platforms – towards a more effective way to deal with cities’
Session 5. Complexity and planning 2: computerized urban design tools and applications
- Iltanen, Sanna: Planning spontaneous patterns
- BaƔlik, Seher: A simulation model based upon land ownership pattern: the case of Istanbul
- Österlund, Toni: Non-linear Adaptive Lighting Control - Methods for designing and controlling non-linear adaptive lighting using network-based agents
Discussion
Reflection on the workshop: conclusions, discussion and future plans
