On December 17-19 European University and ITMO University host a workshop on Erasing Disciplinary Boundaries in Urban Studies: Social Science and Computation. The event will be interesting for researchers, scientists and practitioners who work in multidisciplinary projects dedicated to Urban Studies around the world with the focus on Russia and CIS.
Digital technologies have fundamentally transformed the process of planning, designing, organizing, and administering contemporary cities, yet while they are a vital aspect of contemporary urban practice, their role and effect are by no means straightforward. On the one hand, the “practitioners” have been able to develop new tools, models, and insights using big data and statistical analysis, with their work geared at impacting and defining planning policy. On the other hand, myriad urban problems, such as poverty, social stratification, issues of accessibility, public participation, pollution, and others, require an optic which does not fit easily with computation-driven research. This event will bring social scientists and urban specialists from various domains of the field together with computation specialists in order to jointly consider issues related to modeling, big data, “smart” cities and infrastructures, open source, new apps and shared platforms, and other key topics in urban study. The two groups will engage with similar topics from different vantage points, aiming to channel the expertise of computation specialists and social scientists toward a joint, profound and nuanced engagement with the contemporary city.
List of participants:
- Christine Boyer - Princeton University, School of Architecture
- Alexander Boukhanovsky - ITMO University
- Diana West - EUSP
- Vincent Lepinay - EUSP / Scences Po, Paris
- Mike Lees - ITMO University / University of Amsterdam, Instituut voor Informatica
- Karin Pfeffer - University of Amsterdam
- William Rankin - Yale University, Program in the History of Science and Medicine
- Olga Sezneva - EUSP / University of Amsterdam
- Ola Söderström - University of Neuchâtel, Geography Department
- Peter М. А. Sloot - ITMO University / University of Amsterdam
- Alfons Hoekstra - University of Amsterdam
Dates and venues:
- December 17, 17:00 - European University, 3A Gagarinskaya St.
- December 18, 10:00 - ITMO University, 4 Birzhevaya liniya. Registration required.
- December 19, 14:00 - Radisson Sonya Hotel, 5/19 Liteyniy ave.
