KEYNOTES

Workshop themes and program  
The Lisbon OIKONET POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP program is structured in three sessions. Each session will be opened with a keynote speech followed by a moderated debate with the audience:


SESSION 1

The Impact of Community Initiatives on Environmental Sustainability  

GUEST SPEAKER: Marcos L. Rosa, Architect and Planner, Sao Paulo, Brazil
MODERATOR: Pedro Costa, Economist, Dinâmia’CET, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal

In this session we will explore the relationship between community participation and sustainability. Community participation and sustainability are fundamental tenets of the HABITAT III New Urban Agenda (Quito, 2016) which provides the groundwork for the policies that will influence the future of our cities. The Quito declaration on sustainable cities and human settlements offers guidelines on a variety of enablers that can further fortify the relationship between urbanization and sustainable development at a global level. As Jane Jacobs contended, cities will have the capacity of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

KEYBOARDS: Community participation; Placemaking; New Urban Agenda; Mapping practices and strategies; Environmental Sustainability; Global networks of local practices. 


SESSION 2

Interdisciplinary analysis of lived space: architecture, urban planning and environmental psychology 

GUEST SPEAKER: Leandro Madrazo, Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain
MODERATOR: Patrícia Arriaga, Psychologist, CIS, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal

This session explores the interplay of community participation and digital technologies. The interaction between people and the built environment can be studied at multiple scales, dimensions and from multiple disciplines, in particular those concerned with human behaviour, social practices, and cultural processes. Digital technologies can help to empower citizens so that they can understand the on-going processes of urban development in their manifold dimensions and participate in the decisions that transform their lived environment. The PROHABIT research project has devised and deployed methods and tools to analyse urban transformations from a multidisciplinary perspective, embracing architecture, urban planning and environmental psychology. 

KEYBOARDS: Environment and Behaviour; Data-driven societies; Urban transformations; Right to the City


SESSION 3 

The Influence of Digital Technology on Environmental Sustainability  

GUEST SPEAKER: Stefan van der Spek, Associate Professor of Urban Design, Director of Education at Geomatics, Delft, The Netherlands
MODERATOR: Luís Nunes, Computer scientist, IT/ISTAR-IUL, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal

This session is dedicated to exploring the links between digital technologies and sustainability. Manuel Castells argues that our current “network society” is a product of the digital revolution and some major sociocultural changes which take multiple forms and involve diverse actors. With existing digital technologies, urban activities can be mapped and visualized in real time. Each citizen becomes a prosumer of data, using and generating information in the course of the daily activities taking place in smart cities.  In this context, the following question arises: How can data driven and open design methods lead to a new design practices in our global networked societies?

KEYBOARDS: Integrating innovation in architecture; Tracking technologies in research; FABLAB in Cities; Makers world; Open-source design; Smart-cities; Fabricating architecture; IoT; Computational social science; Human mobility.