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VISUALIZAR'08: DATABASE CITY Seminar

03.11.2008 - 06.11.2008

Place: Medialab-Prado. Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 · Madrid

Presentations and Seminar program for the VISUALIZAR'08: DATABASE CITY workshop, an event on data visualization applied to the urban context (November 3 - 18, 2008). The seminar will take place on November 3, 4 and 6. Free admission.


Program

With simultaneous translation English / Spanish*

[Download full VISUALIZAR'08  in pdf - Spanish-*]

 > Go to Seminar documentation (download papers)

 

November 3

10:30am - 2:00pm
Introduction to the VISUALIZAR'08: DATABASE CITY workshop by  José Luis de Vicente -director-, and presentation of the selected projects. Work groups setting up.

5:30pm
Lecture by José Luis de Vicente: Database City: Exploring an Information Flow City Planning (Database City: Explorando un urbanismo de los flujos de información) [+info]


6:30pm
Lecture by Fabien Girardin: From Sentient to Responsive Cities [+info]


November 4

Morning program: Papers presentations [download documentation]

10:30am
Bluetooth Scanning Sensor: New Tools for Traffic / Environmental Management, by Martín Méndez Falcato and Yuji Yoshimura.

11:15am
Beyond the Edifice: Architectural Visualization Reconsidered, by Greg J. Smith

12:00am
A Visual Analytics Approach for the Understanding of Urban Datasets, by Roberto Therón y Roberto Ranon

12:45pm
The Invisible Display – Design Strategies for Ambient Media in the Urban Context, by Dietmar Offenhuber

1:30pm
Madrid Zero: Distributed Urban Networks of Political Artefacts, by Víctor Viña

Evening Program: Lectures

5:30pm
Lecture by Andrés Ortiz - Bestiario: And What Is This Good For? (Y esto para qué sirve?) [+info]

6:30pm
Lecture by Juan Freire: Visualizing Urban Spaces' Digital Skin. How? What For? (Visualizando la piel digital de los espacios urbanos. ¿Cómo?, ¿para qué?) [+info]

 

November 6

7:00pm

Lecture by Adam Greenfield: The Long Here, the Big Now, and Other Tales of the Networked City [+info]

 

November 18

7:00pm
Opening of the exhibition of developed projects, with the presence of the authors.

 

 

*Translation by AICE Asociación de Intérpretes de Conferencia España
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