IPCity Newsletter #10, September 2007 IPCity Newsletter news can also be read from the IPCity dissemination website at http://www.ipcity.eu/ Select News from the left panel to view the most current news. IPCity (FP-2004-IST-4-27571) is a EU funded Sixth Framework programme Integrated project on Interaction and Presence in Urban Environments. http://www.ipcity.eu/ -------------------------------------------- You can subscribe to IPCity news RSS feed from http://www.ipcity.eu/?feed=rss2. -------------------------------------------- CONTENTS * External news - Design Research Week - MEDIACITY - Situations, Practices and Encounters - Mixed Reality Workshop at CHI 2008 * Internal news - Accepted papers and posters - Streat Beat tests - Timewarp Tests - Personnell changes in IPCity -------------------------------------------- External news -------------------------------------------- Design Research Week 10-11 January 2008: Design Research Week Call for Papers and Projects Conference to be held at the Interdisciplinary Design Institute of Washington State University Spokane. Topic: Design + Politics From obtaining a building permit to raising environmental awareness in design, from Òsick building syndromeÓ to designing for security, from off-grid housing to New Urbanist town planning, the design of built environments is intimately related to politics. The Interdisciplinary Design Institute holds its Fourth Annual Design Research Conference January 10-11, 2008, in Spokane, Washington, to discuss this relationship. This is an interactive conference in which invited speakers, paper presenters and students from a wide range of disciplines participate in multiple venues for the exchange ideas during the conference. Submissions for papers and projects can address the following areas of concern (other related topics will of course be considered as well): The politics of implementing design The affect of gentrification on disadvantaged urban populations Funding diverse housing types to balance high-end condo boom Implications of design standards and policy on businesses and private property ownership Implementing service design into education: Habitat for Humanity, student involvement in medical, faith-based, criminal justice, etc, domains The politics of defensible space: how secure can you make things before you separate people from others? Implementing history: returning to historical Òstage setsÓ to promote Ònew urbanismÓ How the built environment affects group behavior: prisons, hospitals, schools, corporate headquarters How do practitioners inform policies promoting Òbest practices?Ó Incorporating students Òreal-timeÓ in policymaking and design decisions Updating planning and building codes to meet the cybernetic revolution Is ADA enough? Cultural sensitivities in relation to accessibility Can design be embedded in medical insurance policies? Gender, design, and politics PresentersÕ work actually presented at the conference will be further peer reviewed for inclusion in the Interdisciplinary Design and Research e-Publication (IDRP), sponsored by the WSU Interdisciplinary Design Institute: http://www.idrp.wsu.edu/. Papers are to be a maximum of 5,000 words. Initial submission shall be an abstract not to exceed one page. For ease of distribution for blind peer review, be sure the document is in MS WORD (not pdf). Projects can be designs (or concepts) of a built form of any scale, so long as an accompanying narrative explains how the project addresses the conference topic. Initial submission shall be a one page document providing an image of the project with a narrative explanation of sufficient length to fit on the same page. All submissions must include contributor(s) name, affiliation, and contact information. Submission shall be by email only to davewang - at - wsu.edu. All submissions will be blind peer reviewed. DEADLINE for initial submissions: September 12, 2007, with decisions issued at the end of October. -------------------------------------------- MEDIACITY - Situations, Practices and Encounters Call for Papers, Architectural Concepts and Media Art Projects MEDIACITY - Situations, Practices and Encounters Conference of the MEDIACITY project Bauhaus-UniversitŠt Weimar 18-19th January 2008 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 Ð 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. 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(at)mediacityproject.com Website: 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 Katharine S. Willis, Research Fellow Laura Colini, Research Fellow Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Research Fellow Ralf Hennig, Researcher, Co-ordination -------------------------------------------- Mixed Reality Workshop at CHI 2008 The IPCity proposal to organise a workshop during CHI 2008 in Florence, Italy has been accepted. The one day workshop will be held on the 6th of April and in addition to IPCity members two outside experts have also been invited onto the programme committee. For more information see the IPCity website. CHI2008: http://www.chi2008.org MR workshop: http://www.ipcity.eu/workshop CHI workshop page http://www.chi2008.org/workshopParticipants.html CHI format page http://www.chi2008.org/formatting.html -------------------------------------------- Internal news -------------------------------------------- Accepted papers and posters TimeWarp poster accepted to SIGGRAPH2007 A poster titled ÒTimeWarp: An Explorative Outdoor Mixed Reality GameÓ by Iris Herbst, Sabiha Ghellah and Anne-Kathrin Braun has been accepted as a poster to the SIGGRAPH 2007. SIGGRAPH 2007 posters: http://www.siggraph.org/s2007/attendees/posters/all.html SIGGRAPH 2007: http://www.siggraph.org/s2007 Accepted paper A paper by Giulio Jacucci and Ina Wagner titled ÒPerformative Roles of Materiality for Collective CreativityÓ has been accepted for the special issue of the Leonardo Journal. Accepted short paper A paper titled ÒUrban Sketcher: Mixed Reality on Site for Urban Planning and ArchitectureÓ by M. Sareika and D. Schmalstieg has been accepted as a short paper to ISMAR 2007. See http://www.ismar07.org -------------------------------------------- Streat Beat August 2007 The Street Beat music tour of Berlin is currently being tested. The system takes people on a tour of the underground culture of Berlin. The tests are ongoing and so far around eight people have taken part, more are expected over the coming weeks. -------------------------------------------- Timewarp Tests The first usability and presence tests for Timewarp took place in Cologne during August. Around eight people took part and they had a chance to meet the Heinzelmenchen of Cologne, some members of the public also expressed an interest with a group of children shouting ÒCyborgÓ at one study participant. Further tests are planned. -------------------------------------------- Personnell changes in IPCity Maria Basile, having been working in IPCity at UniversitŽ Marne la VallŽe, Champs sur Marne, is joining a new post in an other university. She will still be with us for the September Workshop in Paris. Burcu Ozdirlik, a gracious and skilled doctorant of our lab, coming from Turkey, is joining the team. She will also be present in September workshop. -------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- IPCity (FP-2004-IST-4-27571) is a EU funded Sixth Framework programme Integrated project on Interaction and Presence in Urban Environments. http://www.ipcity.eu/ -------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------