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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>The HYBRID CITY 3: Data to the People <br>Conference, workshops and parallel events<br>17-19 September 2015<br>University of Athens, Athens, Greece<br>http://uranus.media.uoa.gr/hc3/<br><br><br>About<br><br>Hybrid City is an international biennial event dedicated to exploring the<br>emergent character of the city and the potential transformative shift of the<br>urban condition, as a result of ongoing developments in information and<br>communication technologies (ICTs) and of their integration in the urban<br>physical context. It aims to promote dialogue and knowledge exchange among<br>experts drawn from academia, as well as researchers, artists, designers,<br>advocates, stakeholders and decision makers, actively involved in addressing<br>questions on the nature of the technologically mediated urban activity and<br>experience. The second installment of the Hybrid City, that took place in<br>2013 boasted seven keynote speakers, sixty-eight paper presentations and<br>diverse parallel events, that were documented in the printed volume of<br>proceedings. <br><br>Hybrid City Conference 2015 in Athens, Greece will consist of three days of<br>paper presentations, panel discussions, workshops and satellite events,<br>under the theme "Data to the People". The events are organized by the<br>University Research Institute of Applied Communication (URIAC), in<br>collaboration with New Technologies Laboratory, of the Faculty of<br>Communication and Media Studies, of the University of Athens. The main venue<br>of the conference is the central, historic building of the University of<br>Athens, while workshops, projects' presentations and parallel events will<br>take place in other University venues and collaborating centers and<br>institutions, in the center of Athens<br><br>The 2015 theme: Data to the People<br><br>So far in the 21st century, we have experienced a multi-faceted crisis<br>that's challenging the current structural paradigm at a global scale. This<br>crisis is not only economic; it is also social, political and environmental.<br>As such, it has a very prominent urban dimension, exposing cities to a<br>diverse spectrum of distress. Acute natural disasters -earthquakes, fires,<br>or phenomena related to climate change; floods, severe snowfall, fires etc.<br>- precarious access to basic resources such as food and water, lack of<br>opportunities for employment, inefficient social services, e.g. healthcare<br>and education, along with ever increasing unforeseeable acts of violence -a<br>complex and manifold phenomenon on its own right- render living in urban<br>areas vulnerable.<br><br>The third Hybrid City Conference seeks to investigate Information<br>Communication Technologies (ICTs) as means of supporting more Sustainable<br>Cities and Resilient, Self-Reliant Communities and for empowering Citizens.<br>By proclaiming "Data to the People" the Hybrid City Conference adopts a<br>citizen centered approach and seeks to highlight bottom-up projects and<br>initiatives and processes of technological mediation, which assist<br>individuals, communities and cities in responding and adapting to<br>challenges. The Hybrid City Conference aims to offer insights into the<br>complexity of factors that weaken the city fabric and affect urban<br>wellbeing. Furthermore, it aims to investigate the potential of ICTs to<br>support proactive and collective design towards future cities, focusing on<br>real needs and away from a smart-everything rhetoric.<br><br>Hybrid City cordially invites papers both employing a theoretical and/or a<br>practical approach that present concepts, case studies, projects, works of<br>art and best practices promoting the discussion on the theme. Emphasizing<br>the inherently interdisciplinary nature of technologically mediated urban<br>activity, we welcome proposals discussing concepts or documenting projects<br>of urban innovation, that through originality contribute to shaping the<br>future of the hybrid city and offer useful insights to the hybridization<br>process of the urban environment. <br><br>Submissions may critically examine the following topics, or suggest other<br>relevant lines of research within the Hybrid City context:<br>. Environmental sensing and the Internet of things: regaining control <br>. Open urban data, capturing and visualization<br>. Environmental perception, cognition, immersion and presence in the context<br>of hybrid urban spaces<br>. Psychosocial perspectives into the impact of locative and pervasive media<br>use<br>. Placemaking, place attachment and place identity in the hybrid city<br>. New public spaces: From creative spatial re-use to urban farming<br>. Peer to peer urbanism: From open source to doing it with others<br>. Collaborative economies and sharing cities practices<br>. Urban self-reliance: Alternative collectives and support networks<br>. Resilience and sustainability: Emerging citizen-driven toolkits,<br>methodologies and prototypes<br>. Artworks, and urban interventions for citizen empowerment <br>. Transmedia location-aware storytelling<br>. Performative bodies, gendered spaces and technofeminism in the Hybrid City<br>. Infrastructural fails and alternative communication systems: Critical<br>perspectives and responses to stacktivism<br>. Autonomous, offline file-sharing and communication networks <br>. Open hardware and sustainability<br><br>Author's Guidelines<br><br>Submissions should include:<br>. Extended abstract of 750 - 1000 words, (including references).<br>. Biographical statement of no more than 250 words.<br>. Keywords (at least five).<br>All abstracts will undergo a double, blind peer review. Selected authors<br>will be asked to submit a full paper (8 pages), or short paper (4 pages) to<br>be included in the printed conference proceedings. Further details will be<br>announced right after the notification of acceptance<br><br>Important dates<br>Deadline for extended abstract submissions: 15/3/15<br>Response to authors: 22/4/15<br>Camera ready full paper submission: 22/6/15<br><br>Submission<br>Please submit your contribution using the online platform.<br><br>For any queries or further info please contact us at: <br>hybridcityathens [at] gmail [dot] com<br><br> </div></body>
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