[Ci4cg-announce] Vienna Summer School: Smart Cities - Call for applications

[Marcus Foth]

SMART CITIES: DESIGNING PLACES AND URBAN MENTALITIES
Vienna Summer School 2016 - Call for Applications (due 31 May 2016)

date:         21.08 - 29.08.2016 at TU Wien
location:     TU Wien, Vienna
language:    English
duration:     8 days
credits:         6 ects
applications due: 31 May 2016
website:     http://summerschool2016-smartcity.tuwien.ac.at/

An 8-day Summer School "DESIGNING PLACES AND URBAN Mentalities SMART CITIES"  will be held at TU Wien in Vienna from 21.08 - 29.08.2016.

The concept of Smart City is promising: The European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities highlights the opportunities to link and upgrade infrastructures, technologies and services in key urban sectors (transport, buildings, energy, ICT) in a smart way [that] will improve quality of life, economic competitiveness and sustainability of cities. Such conceptions present Smart City-solutions as mainly technology driven utopian visions of societal transformation while blurring the multitude of social decisions made in technology development which fundamentally shape the kinds of social transformations possible in urban life.

The Summer School brings together scholars from diverse disciplines including technical, economic, political, environmental and social disciplines to explore new sets of relationships between (a) society and technology and (b) people and data entailed in the Smart City vision and to contribute to a better understanding of processes transforming urban spaces.

Call for Application: The Summer School invites excellent and interested advanced Master and PhD-students working in the field of Smart City. We seek participation from diverse disciplines including Urban Studies, Urban Planning, Sociology, Innovation Studies, informatics and other ICT/urban Informatics related areas.

Please submit until 31 May to summerschool2016 [@] tuwien.ac.at<http://tuwien.ac.at>:
a) Letter of motivation with a brief description of the research topic, max. 3 pages;
b) Comprehensive CV;
c) Letter of recommendation from supervisor.

The Summer School is is funded by the WWTF of Vienna  and organized inter-faculty between Informatics and Spatial Planning (Department of Spatial Planning, Interdisciplinary centre of Urban Studies  and section Sociology and the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research group from the Faculty of Informatics).

For more information see: http://summerschool2016-smartcity.tuwien.ac.at/

For questions, please email: oliver.frey at tuwien.ac.at<mailto:oliver.frey at tuwien.ac.at>


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Professor Marcus Foth

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School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
m.foth at qut.edu.au<mailto:m.foth at qut.edu.au> – @sunday9pm – www.vrolik.de<http://www.vrolik.de>

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