[spectre] Call for papers for the 2nd Hybrid City conference, Athens, May 2013

[Daphne Dragona]

The HYBRID CITY II: Subtle rEvolutions

Conference, workshops, exhibition and parallel events

23-25 May 2013

University of Athens, Athens, Greece



Hybrid City is an international biennial event 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 
information and communication technologies (ICTs) and of their 
integration in the urban physical context. After the successful 
homonymous symposium in 2011, the second edition of Hybrid City has 
grown into a peer reviewed conference, aiming to promote dialogue and 
knowledge exchange among experts drawn from academia, as well as 
artists, designers, researchers, advocates, stakeholders and decision 
makers, actively involved in addressing questions on the nature of the 
technologically mediated urban activity and experience.



Hybrid City Conference 2013, in Athens, Greece, will consist of three 
days of paper presentations, discussions, workshops and satellite 
events, under the theme “Subtle rEvolutions”. The events will be hosted 
by the faculty of Communication and Media Studies, of the University of 
Athens and are in particular organized by the University Research 
Institute of Applied Communication (URIAC), in collaboration with the 
New Technologies Laboratory of the faculty. The main venue of the 
conference is the central, historic building of the University of 
Athens, while workshops, projects’ presentations and parallel events 
will take place in collaborating centers and institutions in the center 
of Athens.



The “Hybrid City” events are realized in the context of the “City is a 
Hybrid Interface – HYBRI-C” project of the EACEA Culture programme 
2007-2013.



Theme – Subtle rEvolutions



ICTs, whether mobile, wireless or embedded in persistent architectural 
forms, facilitate the collection and dissemination of data, infusing the
 physical expression of the city with digital layers of content, 
contributing thus to the emergence of new hybridized spatial logics and 
novel forms of social interaction. These systems and the hybrid spatial 
experience they afford, encourage encounters among users; both embodied 
and mediated, and influence community dynamics, giving rise to networks 
around common interests and collectives of affect. Sometimes, such 
groups, irrespective of how ephemeral, unstable and dispersed they may 
be, negotiate a new kind of engagement with the urban environment and 
civic life, suggesting thus an organizational paradigm that manages to 
surpass traditional vertical hierarchies of space and consequently of 
power and control. Such configurations among communities, locations, 
contexts and intentions were manifested intensely in the interlinking of
 protest events around the world since 2011, the Arab Spring uprisings, 
the Occupy movement and anti-austerity demonstrations in Southern 
Europe, but they also gradually permeate everyday life in the 
contemporary metropolis.



As sharing and collaborative tactics migrate from online culture to the 
urban realm and ICTs become increasingly open and personalized, rich 
opportunities for new forms of participation in civic life arise. 
Citizens are enabled to access information about the city but also to 
become involved in the production, collection and distribution of data 
related to urban matters. The Hybrid City Conference considers a further
 investigation of such processes of crucial importance, so as to gain a 
deeper understanding of the effect they have on the urban experience and
 to explore their contribution in shaping the future cities. In this 
respect, Hybrid City cordially invites papers both of a theoretical and 
practical approach that present concepts, case studies, projects, works 
of art and best practices that promote  the discussion on the theme. 
Emphasizing the inherently interdisciplinary nature of technologically 
mediated urban activity, we welcome proposals which critically examine, 
but are not limited to, the following topics:


•       Open cities, open urban data. • Environmental sensing and the Internet of things.

•       Urban data visualization.

•       Environmental perception, cognition, immersion and presence in the context of hybrid urban spaces.

•       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.

•       Cartography of hybrid spaces. • 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.



Keynote speakers confirmed so far:

•       Roger Malina, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Technology, 
University of Texas, Dallas, Co Chair Art-Science Program, Mediterranean
 Institute of Advanced Studies, Marseille

•       Steve Benford, Professor of Collaborative Computing and Head of 
the School of Computer Science at The University of Nottingham, member 
of the Mixed Reality Laboratory and of Horizon, author of ‘Performing 
Mixed Reality’ (with Gabriella Giannachi), MIT Press. 
•    Eric 
Kluitenberg, independent theorist and writer on culture, media, and 
technology, editor in chief of Tactical Media Files, an online 
documentation resource of Tactical Media practices worldwide.



All accepted papers will be included in the printed conference proceedings.



Submissions for papers:

Submissions should include:

*       Extended abstract of 1000 words max.

*       Biographical statement of no more than 250 words.

Submissions should be in a Word or PDF format and not exceed 10 Mb in size. Please upload submitted files at: http://uranus.media.uoa.gr/hc2/.



Important Dates:



All abstracts will be peer reviewed. Authors of accepted abstracts will 
be notified before the 20th of December 2012. Final submission of full 
papers will be expected no later than the 20th of February 2013.



Deadline of Abstract Submission:  20 October 2012.



Notification of Acceptance: 20 December 2012.



Deadline of Full Paper Submission: 20 February 2013.



Conference Dates: 23-25 May 2013.



For any queries or further info please contact us at: hybridcityathens at gmail.com 		 	   		  
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