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<p class="">Hybrid City Conference, Data to the People<br>
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<p class="">17-19 September 2015, Athens, Greece<br>
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<p class=""><strong class="">CALL FOR PAPERS</strong></p>
<p class=""><strong class="">ABOUT</strong></p>
<p class="" align="justify">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. It aims to promote dialogue and knowledge exchange among
experts drawn from academia, as well as researchers, artists,
designers, advocates, stakeholders and decision makers, actively
involved in addressing questions on the nature of the
technologically mediated urban activity and experience. The second
installment of the Hybrid City, that took place in 2013 boasted
seven keynote speakers, sixty-eight paper presentations and
diverse parallel events, that were documented in the printed
volume of proceedings.</p>
<p class="" align="justify"><br class="">
Hybrid City Conference 2015 in Athens, Greece will consist of
three days of paper presentations, panel discussions, workshops
and satellite events, under the theme <strong class="">“Data to
the People</strong>”. The events are organized by the University
Research Institute of Applied Communication (URIAC), in
collaboration with New Technologies Laboratory, of the Faculty of
Communication and Media Studies, of the University of Athens. 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 other University venues and
collaborating centers and institutions, in the center of Athens </p>
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<strong class="">THEME: DATA TO THE PEOPLE</strong></p>
<p class="" align="justify">So far in the 21<sup class="">st</sup>
century, we have experienced a multi-faceted crisis that’s
challenging the current structural paradigm at a global scale.
This crisis is not only economic; it is also social, political and
environmental. As such, it has a very prominent urban dimension,
exposing cities to a diverse spectrum of distress. Acute natural
disasters -earthquakes, fires, or phenomena related to climate
change; floods, severe snowfall, fires etc.- precarious access to
basic resources such as food and water, lack of opportunities for
employment, inefficient social services, e.g. healthcare and
education, along with ever increasing unforeseeable acts of
violence –a complex and manifold phenomenon on its own right-
render living in urban areas vulnerable.<br class="">
The third Hybrid City Conference seeks to investigate Information
Communication Technologies (ICTs) as means of supporting more <strong
class="">Sustainable Cities</strong> and <strong class="">Resilient,
Self-Reliant Communities</strong> and for <strong class="">empowering
Citizens</strong>. By proclaiming <strong class="">“Data to the
People”</strong> the Hybrid City Conference adopts a citizen
centered approach and seeks to highlight bottom-up projects and
initiatives and processes of technological mediation, which assist
individuals, communities and cities in responding and adapting to
challenges. The Hybrid City Conference aims to offer insights
into the complexity of factors that weaken the city fabric and
affect urban wellbeing. Furthermore, it aims to investigate the
potential of ICTs to support proactive and collective design
towards future cities, focusing on real needs and away from a
smart-everything rhetoric.</p>
<p class="" align="justify">Hybrid City cordially invites papers
both employing a theoretical and/or a practical approach that
present concepts, case studies, projects, works of art and best
practices promoting the discussion on the theme. Emphasizing the
inherently interdisciplinary nature of technologically mediated
urban activity, we welcome proposals discussing concepts or
documenting projects of urban innovation, that through originality
contribute to shaping the future of the hybrid city and offer
useful insights to the hybridization process of the urban
environment.</p>
<p class="" align="justify">Submissions may critically examine the
following topics, or suggest other relevant lines of research
within the Hybrid City context:</p>
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<li class="">Environmental sensing and the Internet of things:
regaining control</li>
<li class="">Open urban data, capturing and visualization</li>
<li class="">Environmental perception, cognition, immersion and
presence in the context of hybrid urban spaces</li>
<li class="">Psychosocial perspectives into the impact of locative
and pervasive media use</li>
<li class="">Placemaking, place attachment and place identity in
the hybrid city</li>
<li class="">New public spaces: From creative spatial re-use to
urban farming</li>
<li class="">Peer to peer urbanism: From open source to doing it
with others</li>
<li class="">Collaborative economies and sharing cities practices</li>
<li class="">Urban self-reliance: Alternative collectives and
support networks</li>
<li class="">Resilience and sustainability: Emerging
citizen-driven toolkits, methodologies and prototypes</li>
<li class="">Artworks, and urban interventions for citizen
empowerment</li>
<li class="">Transmedia location-aware storytelling</li>
<li class="">Performative bodies, gendered spaces and
technofeminism in the Hybrid City</li>
<li class="">Infrastructural fails and alternative communication
systems: Critical perspectives and responses to stacktivism</li>
<li class="">Autonomous, offline file-sharing and communication
networks</li>
<li class="">Open hardware and sustainability</li>
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<p class=""><strong class="">CALL FOR PAPERS</strong></p>
<p class="" align="justify">HC.15 Call for papers:<br>
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<div class=""><strong class="">Author’s Guidelines</strong> </div>
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<p class="">Submissions should include:</p>
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<li class="">Extended abstract of 750 - 1000 words, (including
references).</li>
<li class="">Biographical statement of no more than 250 words.</li>
<li class="">Keywords (at least five).</li>
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<p class="">All abstracts will undergo a double, blind peer
review. Selected authors will be asked to submit a full paper (8
pages), or short paper (4 pages) to be included in the printed
conference proceedings. Further details will be announced right
after the notification of acceptance</p>
<p class=""><strong class="">Important dates</strong></p>
<p class="">Deadline for extended abstract submissions:
15/3/15</p>
<p class="">Response to
authors:
22/4/15</p>
<p class="">Camera ready full paper
submission: 22/6/15</p>
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<b>Minuette Le</b></div>
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<div>Researcher, <a href="http://hybridpublishing.org/">Hybrid
Publishing Lab</a></div>
<div>Innovations-Inkubator, Leuphana University | <a
href="http://www.leuphana.de/en/zentren/cdc.html">Centre for
Digital Cultures</a></div>
<div><b>Phone</b> +49 (0)176 6475 2047</div>
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