Urban Planning & Technology Event April 8 - Registration and Call for Presentations and Papers
Rob Goodspeed
PLANNINGTECH@DUSP 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
11:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Location: MIT Building 9
DESCRIPTION
New technologies are transforming how we communicate, expanding access
to data and information, and revolutionizing how we understand and
navigate our cities. Join a diverse groups of practitioners, scholars,
students, and citizens for a half-day conference on the impact of
these changes on the field of urban planning. Held one day before the
start of the American Planning Association's National Conference (also
in Boston), this will be an opportunity to meet innovators from around
New England and the across the nation.
The event will include discussion of urban modeling, urban sensing for
planning, planning support systems, meeting technology, social media
and Web 2.0 tools, and gaming for participation.
REGISTRATION
Register using the following link. Registration is free:
http://planningtech11.eventbrite.com/
PRESENTATION INFORMATION
Participants have four options for presentations:
- Lightning Talks - presenters will have 20 slides, 20 seconds per
slide, advance automatically.
- Paper Session - Presentation of a paper, submitted two weeks before
the conference. Should be no more than 5-10 pages.
- Presentation Session - Presentation without a formal paper, A/V
materials optional.
- Idea Session - A facilitated conversation on a topic. Will be
finalized on the day of the conference.
If you would like to present, submit the presenter name(s),
presentation type, and proposed presentation title to
rob.go...@gmail.com by Friday, February 25. The timeline for
presentations is below.
Friday, 2/25 - Title and Abstracts due for presenters
Monday, 2/28 - Accepted presenters notified
Monday, 3/28 - Papers and final presentation titles due
Friday, 4/8 - Conference day
For more information see the conference website:
http://web.mit.edu/rgoodspe/www/planningtech/
Or contact planni...@mit.edu