UrBio International Seminar: Participatory Mobile Biosensing. A Tool for Urban Designers.
SUMMARY
This international seminar gathers urban scholars from Portugal, Brazil, Poland and the United Kingdom to discuss the application of biosensing techniques in participatory urban planning and design.
Drawing on research conducted by the project UrBio - Making Urban Planning and Design Smarter with Participatory Mobile Biosensing, we tackle the main questions regarding the use of biosensors in urban research and design:
- How can biosensors improve our understanding of the emotions that the city elicits?
- To what extent are urban dwellers capable of using their own biodata to communicate the urban experience?
- Can biosensing enhance participatory methods in urban research and design?
- What does a city that is designed by and for our emotions look like?
Project UrBio is funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia under grant no. EXPL/GES-URB/0273/2021.
Free entrance. No registration is required.
PROGRAMME
09h00 – Opening Session
09h15 – Exploratory International Fieldwork
Research on thermal comfort and shading practices in Cuiabá
Marcia Alves Soares da Silva, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso
Teaching biosensing methods to geography and planning students
Dorota Mantey, University of Warsaw
11h00 – Introducing Participatory Mobile Biosensing
Daniel Paiva, CEG/IGOT-ULisboa
11h30 – Towards Smarter Urban Planning and Design
Affective mapping and scenarios for urban emotions
Daniel Paiva, Eduardo Brito-Henriques & Inês Boavida-Portugal, CEG/IGOT-ULisboa
Down memory lane: Eliciting affective geographies and sites of memory
Ana Gonçalves, Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril
Discussant: Tess Osborne, Leicester University
13h00 – Closing Session
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