[Commlist] cpf AMPS Livable Cities Conference, 2025

Livable Cities: Lisbon & Barcelona

TECHNOLOGY & MEDIA


9-11 July, 2025 (Lisbon)

16-18 July, 2025 (Barcelona)

Abstracts: 25 April, 2025

https://amps-research.com/livable-cities-technology-media/ 
<https://amps-research.com/livable-cities-technology-media/>


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The AMPS Livable Cities Conference, 2025, is a joint two part event with 
the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and Universidad Ramon Llull – La 
Salle, Barcelona. Part One is held in Lisbon followed by Part Two in 
Barcelona

THEMES:

AI, smart cities, digital infrastructures, computational design, 
augmented and virtual realities, mobile apps, intelligent buildings, 
parametric urbanism, big data, GIS, building information modelling, 
digital accessibility, participatory technology, and more.


LISBON:   LIVABLE CITIES: Cities, Culture, People & Place

Overall, the Lisbon event is interested in examining the city as a site 
of livability across times and places. It uses Lisbon as a point of 
departure for examining the varied issues at play with this track 
specifically focused on technology and media.

BARCELONA:   LIVABLE CITIES: The Urban Experience

Using the city of Barcelona as an example, this event explores how 
cross-disciplinary readings of cities the world over shed light on how 
we live in cities. Special attention in this track is also placed on 
questions of technologies and new medias.


FULL CALL:

Livable Cities initiative sits across the two AMPS research programs: 
The Mediated City and Critical Futures. Particularly reflecting the 
issues at the heart of the Mediated City program, this call starts from 
the premise that today we live in a media saturated environment in 
constant flux. It identifies that we are now perfectly attuned to the 
photo-realistic imagery of design presentations. It assumes the daily 
experience of ever present moving imagery in the commercialized urban 
landscape is considered a norm by many. It acknowledges that we still 
watch the ‘city symphonies’ of a new generation of filmmakers and see 
‘the city’ as both a historic and futuristic site, subject and 
protagonist in cinematic productions from California to Mumbai.


It recognises that we are ever more engaged in the ‘mundanity’ of the 
digitally laden experience of the contemporary city: an interactive 
public transport ride, an app based experience of architectural 
heritage, the google maps based navigation of our streets, and much 
more. For some, this is little more than the inevitable evolution of 
urban space in the digital age. For others, it represents the city’s 
liberation from the condition of stasis. For scaremongers, it’s a 
nightmare scenario in which the difference between the virtual and the 
real, the electronic and the material, the recorded and the lived, the 
past and the present becomes impossible to identify. In every case, it 
is accepted that corporeal engagement has been placed at one remove from 
the physical world.

Livable Cities 2025 seeks a wide ranging multi-disciplinary 
consideration of these questions. It asks what is the influence of new 
and old technologies and medias on the city, its experience, design, and 
representation. In a changing context of smart technologies, new social 
and private medias, and global and local linking of peoples and places 
in and across cities, it seeks to explore the flux of the contemporary 
urban experience.


FULL DETAILS:

https://amps-research.com/livable-cities-technology-media/ 
<https://amps-research.com/livable-cities-technology-media/>


CONTACT:
(events /at/ amps-research.com) <mailto:(events /at/ amps-research.com)>

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