[ecrea] Design & The City (April 19-22, 2016) Call for Workshop Organizers

Design & the City 2016
http://designandthecity.eu
Amsterdam, April 19-22, 2016

Call for Workshop Organizers

The Design & The City conference explores citizen-centered design
approaches for the smart city, addressing how social media, big data and
other digital technologies may contribute to more sustainable, liveable
and sociable urban communities. Specific focus of the conference is on
the expanding role of designers as initiators, innovators, campaigners,
connectors, organizers, critics and imagineers of alternative urban
futures.

The conference is organized by the Amsterdam University of Applied
Sciences (http://www.hva.nl/) and takes place at The Knowledge Mile
(http://knowledgemile.org/), a living lab in the centre of Amsterdam. It
takes place in the context of the Dutch presidency of the EU.

We are inviting proposals from designers, activists, researchers, media
labs, and others for workshops to be held on April 22, 2016. Workshops
are unique opportunities for engaging  practitioners, researchers and
conference attendees in a productive discussion.

This call is programmatically inclusive and broad: the Design & the City
conference welcomes proposals for workshops that connect urban spaces to
design, research, education, art, playfulness and activism. Workshops
should involve attendees in concrete discussions and hands-on
activities, with the objective of experimenting with new concepts,
fostering peer-to-peer discussion and learning-by-doing.

Workshops will take place on Friday April 22, 2016, either as a half-day
or full-day activities, ideally with a mid-morning break, a lunch break,
and a mid-afternoon break. They should bring attendees together around
design issues for citizen-centered smart cities, discussing them in a
participatory and/or practical way. Possible examples could include
co-design sessions, booksprints, roundtables, hackathons, etc. Workshops
should have some kind of tangible output, such as a shared wiki, a
curated selection of sketches, a collective paper or an artifact.

Each workshop organizer will produce their own call for participants and
will be able to select them. Conference organizers will advertise calls
on the main website, and in addition to this workshop organizers will
disseminate them in their own networks. Workshop organizers are
responsible for documenting the outputs and making them available on a
platform of their choice, which will be linked to the main conference
website. Conference organizers will arrange for food and coffee, for
working space, as well as reasonable logistics and some equipment (such
as projectors, whiteboards, wifi access...). Workshop organizers will
receive free entrance to the main conference; a small fee will be
charged to workshop participants to cover for lunch and other logistics.

Deadline for proposals is December 7, notice of acceptance can be
expected in January 2016.

Proposals should include:
Workshop title
Organizers’ names and short bios
Short description of the proposed topic, and its relevance to the
general conference theme (300 words max)
Short description of the methodologies adopted (e.g. discussion,
co-creation, rapid paper prototyping…) (250 words max)
Short description of the participants’ required competences, if any, and
necessary equipment (e.g. participants should bring a camera and a
sketchpad) (250 words max)
Short description of the expected outputs, as well as the strategies for
making them accessible (250 words max)
Duration of the workshop (full-day, half-day) and preferred location
(e.g. classroom, open space, itinerant workshop in public areas…)

Proposals should be sent as attachments to (info /at/ designandthecity.eu)
<mailto:(info /at/ designandthecity.eu)> with “Workshop Proposal” in the
subject line. You can also reach us at this email address for any
further questions.

On behalf of the Design & the City organizing committee:

Martijn de Waal (Programme Coordinator) & Gabriele Ferri (Workshop
Coordinator),

http://designandthecity.eu



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