[Commlist] Call for papers "The Future of Smart Cities" at Academic Mindtrek 2025

We are very pleased to announce that the *28th International Academic 
Mindtrek* conference will take place between the* 7th and 10th of 
October 2025*. We will host a hybrid event in Tampere, Finland with 
high-quality video streaming.

More info at: https://www.mindtrek.org/academic-mindtrek-2025/ 
<https://www.mindtrek.org/academic-mindtrek-2025/>

The conference will host our track: *The Future of Smart Cities*

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  Chairs: Mattia Thibault (Tampere University), Leighton Evans (Swansea 
University).

The intersection of the digital and the urban is evolving rapidly, 
shaping new ways of living, working, and playing in our cities. As 
'smart city' technologies become more embedded in urban life, critical 
questions arise: What futures are we building? Who benefits from digital 
urbanisation? How can we ensure cities remain playful, inclusive, and 
sustainable spaces for diverse communities?
The _Future of Smart Cities_**track explores these themes to investigate 
emerging digital technologies in urban environments. We critically 
assess the promises and limitations of "smart" urbanism, shifting focus 
toward agency, participation, play, and innovation in digital 
city-making. We encourage perspectives that challenge, rethink, and 
extend the role of technology in shaping urban experiences.
We welcome interdisciplinary contributions on topics including, but not 
limited to:

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    Playable and Experiential Cities: urban gamification, playable media
    in public spaces, digital placemaking, interactive urban storytelling
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    Critical Perspectives on Smart Cities: post-smart urbanism,
    algorithmic governance, surveillance and control
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    Emerging Urban Ecologies: AI-driven urbanism, robot-human
    interaction, digital twins, Internet of Animals
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    Community and Participation: bottom-up digital projects, co-creation
    and civic engagement, citizen science in urban contexts
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    Sustainable and Ethical Urban Technologies: climate-adaptive
    infrastructures, sustainable digital cities, ethics of urban AI

We also welcome contributions focusing on this year’s special theme: 
“Cities and Resistance”. From civil rights movements to hackable cities, 
the urban space has often been at the centre of political acts of 
disobedience and defiance. In a moment when governments around the world 
seem to become increasingly authoritarian, we encourage submissions that 
look into the connections between resistance and the urban.
We particularly encourage submissions that push the boundaries of 
existing research, present speculative or experimental approaches, or 
engage with the intersections of urban technology, play, and community 
in novel ways.

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The Academic Mindtrek conference will welcome proposals for full papers, 
pictorials, workshops, demonstrations and poster presentations on a 
variety of topics, as well as a Doctoral Consortium.
The International Academic Mindtrek has been for several years an 
exciting meeting place where researchers, experts and thinkers present 
results from their latest works regarding the development of novel 
technology, media and digital culture for the society of tomorrow.
Mindtrek provides a unique platform where individuals from different 
fields, including companies, startups, academia, and government 
institutions, come together. This diversity fosters collaboration, 
enabling the transition of research findings into practical applications 
for the industry. Mindtrek presents an international stage for 
out-of-the-box research ideas, rooted in practitioners’ expertise.

*Academic Mindtrek 2025* welcomes all scientific contributions that 
present relevant and actual studies of today that may shape the way we 
interact with the technologies of tomorrow. Our goal is to facilitate 
meaningful experiences and knowledge sharing on how technology merges 
into society and what opportunities and hidden threats it brings to it.

*Reviewing process and proceedings*
The Academic Mindtrek conference has a rigorous peer-review process via 
the EasyChair system. All submissions are peer-reviewed; each paper will 
be reviewed by three experts in a double-anonymous review.
The review process is managed by local track chairs and their 
international co-chairs and overseen by the conference and academic 
program chairs. /All accepted papers, pictorials, workshops, 
demonstrations, and posters will be published in the /*/ACM Digital 
Library/*/ under the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS)./
Please note that ACM has moved to full Open Access model under which 
Full papers (including pictorials as an alternative to text-based 
papers) are required to pay the APC fee. For more information see 
the*Author Guidance published by ACM. 
<https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance>*


The submission opens on the 8th of April 2025
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*Timeline for Academic Mindtrek 2025 *(All deadlines are 23:59 AoE)

Deadline for full papers, pictorials, and workshops submissions:
May 2nd, 2025

Notification of acceptance (full papers, pictorials, and workshops):
July 4th, 2025

Deadline for auxiliary submissions (posters, Doctoral Consortium, and 
demos):
July 31st, 2025

Notification of acceptance (posters, Doctoral Consortium, and demos):
August 11th, 2025

Camera-ready deadline:
August 18th, 2025

CONFERENCE DATES:
*7th �C 10th October, 2025*



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