Workshop e-Planning 2012

International e-Planning Workshop 2012: "Citizens, Cities and Technology"

April 23, 2012 (10h00 - 19h30)

Location: Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon

C6, room 6.2.56

The purpose of this Workshop is to showcase exciting and promising projects in the growing feld of e-Planning, to take measure of the state of the art in e-Planning and a glimpse of what's ahead, and finally to promote the exchange of projects, knowledge and experiences between e-Planners from several countries.

As always, inspired by MIT's Media Lab motto "Publish or Perish", but also "Demo or Die", this e-Planning Workshop intends to go beyond the traditional model of communication, creating both a space and an opportunity to see and refect the potential of tools, systems and approaches that we call "e-planning". This will be where communities and researchers meet to exchange, on an international level, their needs and their views on projects and approaches that are still under development.

Program

Part I: Posters and Demonstrations

10h00 – registration

10h30 - 12h30

- Interactive project demonstrations and Poster session

Poster Session:

Mutual campus: urban sustainable street furniture integrating mobility
information of the campus Descartes
Roshanak Naderi, Master student, IFU, U. Paris

Mutual campus: benchmark of similar projects
Ulysse Lassaube, Master student, IFU, U. Paris

A GIS based procedure for biomass estimation and identification of site suitability for support facilities in Manica, Mozambique

Luis Bexiga Calisto, Master student, FC-UL, Lisbon

Post-fire vegetation recovery monitoring using remote sensing

Ana Filipa Ferreira Bastos, Graduate student, IDL / FC-UL, Lisbon

Data collection to GIS analysis in earth sciences

Edgar Barreira, Master student, FC-UL, Lisbon

Planning & Management

Tomás Llorente Aguado, PhD student, Universidade Politecnica, Madrid

Layout planning and optimization of high density PV power plants

David Pera, PhD student, Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems of the University of Lisbon

Contribution towards a Solar Atlas of the Azores

Clarisse Magarreiro, PhD student, IDL-UL, Lisbon

e-Planning Live Lab – Project “My neighbourhood, my home - support search tool for home buyers / renters”

Paulo Batista, e-Planning PhD student, UA, Aveiro

Urban Walls and Virtual Bridges: How internet influences borders' perceptions in Derry/Londonderry and Nicosia

Francesca Savoldi, e-Planning PhD student, ISCSP-UTL, Lisbon

"DIGITUR” - Turismo Digital

Ana Isabel Moiteiro, Jorge Saraiva Almeida, Isabel Oliveira, e-Planning PhD students, FCT-UNL, FCSH-UNL, Lisbon

Urban Planning and Digital Municipalities - A dilemma between the visible and the invisible

Maria da Graça Moreira, Professor, Faculty of Architecture-UTL, Lisbon

Digital Mediation for Public Participation

Luis Borges Gouveia, CAPP-TSG/UTL & Professor Univ. Fernando Pessoa, Porto

Interactive Project Demonstrations:

Beecitiz, a citizen's tool to solve the public road network's issues: the experience of a participatory map offered by Paris' municipality.
The inhabitants don't take a large part in the management of the public space. A private software- Beecitiz – is used by Paris cityhall. This case study will be presented focused on the analysis of the role played by the different actors: the inhabitants, the municipality, the designers.
Aurore Bertrand et Yuan yuan Wang, Master students, IFU, U. Paris

Cellnet – mobileHealth project proposal – Cabo Verde

Cátia Traça, Francesca Savoldi, ePlanning PhD students, ISCSP-UTL, Mario Carneiro, CITIDEP

EuroLifeNet – Air Quality through Participatory Science

Barbara Mauricio, ePlanning PhD candidate, ISCSP-UTL

Documenta - apoio ao imigrante (Support for immigrants)

Tiago Prates, Suénia Brito, Lídia Namuto, Project in Political Science Lic., ISCSP-UTL

MediaClick

Francisco Xavier, António Fernandes, ePlanning PhD students, ISCSP-UTL

Virtual Cab - e-city monitorization and management in a distributed system environment

Pedro Bentes Graça, e-Planning PhD student, ISCSP-UTL

“iLeger: A Web Based Application for Participative Elections” -

Artur Afonso Sousa, PhD student Communication Sciences, Univ. Fernando Pessoa, Porto

12h30 – 14h00

Lunch break

Part II: Presentations

14h00

- Opening and welcome word by the Host & Workshop Chair

14h05 - 16h00

- Institutional remarks, ePlanning PhD + Master Programs & Research:

José Manuel Pinto Paixão, Director of FC-UL
João Abreu Bilhim, President of ISCSP-UTL (TBC)
Fausto José Robalo Amaro, President of CAPP, ISCSP-UTL
Cristina Catita, Coordinator of the ePlanning Task Force at FC-UL (PhD and Master on ePlanning)
Bárbara Barbosa Neves, Coordinator of the ePlanning Task Force at ISCSP-UTL for ePlanning Master
Valérie Aillaud, Coordinator of the “e-Planning” specialization (within the planning and transportation master degree) at IFU, U. Paris, and Head of regional development, tourism and innovation Unit at the Parisian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Paris
Muriel Gavira, Coordinator of the ePlanning Task Force at UNICAMP, S. Paulo (vc)
Joseph Ferreira Jr., Associate Head of DUSP-MIT (vc)
Pedro Ferraz de Abreu, Coordinator of the Joint ePlanning PhD (UA, UTL, UNL, UL) and ePlanning PhD at ISCSP-UTL

16h00 - 16h15

Tea break

16h15 - 16h40

- Keynote speaker

Mike Flaxman, Professor, DUSP-MIT, Partner, GeoAdaptive

“e-Planning: Recent Projects and Future Prospects”

What makes e-planning different than conventional planning? How does e-planning relate to GeoDesign, Landscape Urbanism and Landscape Ecology? What skills and approaches are needed to address these issues and prosper in the new information economy? The answers to these questions are still being formed. However, recent research at MIT and elsewhere begins to show some interesting patterns. Prof. Flaxman will describe a set of projects which span a range of issues and approaches. The MIT Everglades project used participatory spatial simulation modeling to develop "alternative futures" for a region and to assess their consequences. The "Emerging and Sustainable Cities Platform" sponsored by the Interamerican Bank is trying to develop new methods for evaluating sustainability, ultimately across 500 diverse cities. Recent student PhD work used agent-based modeling to explore water resources conflicts and to create scenarios collaboratively online. Prof. Flaxman will review these developments, and offer his assessment of future prospects for the field, and what students and faculty might be thinking about in terms of research opportunities and required supporting and coursework skills.

16h40 - 16h50

Questions / Discussion

16h50 - 18h30

- Sample Communications from e-Planning students representing teams from France, Italy, Spain, USA, Brasil, and Portugal.

“The Dilemma of Online Participation: The Imagine Austin Case"

Robert Goodspeed, PhD Student, M.I.T. Department of Urban Studies and Planning (vc)

“Impact of digital asymmetries in territorial cohesion” – Thesis Proposal

Marta Sousa Rocha, ePlanning PhD student, ISCSP-UTL

“Are digital technologies usefull for public participation in urban planning projects?”
Alexina Fornasari, former president and founder of the "junior enterprise" at
IFU-U.Paris, & project manager at the Parisian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.