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Workshop on
"Critical and participatory development of people centered
smart learning ecosystems and territories"
@ Critical Alternative 2015
17th August 2015
Aahrus, Denmark
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/critalter2015/
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Important dates:
*** Deadline for submission of position paper:
20th of May,
2015 ***
Other important dates:
• Notification to the authors: 10th June, 2015
• Camera ready submission: 30th June, 2015
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Introduction and Workshop Goals
Once in 10 years you have the possibility to discuss about current
trends in research on computing for quality of life and propose
your vision for the future at the decennial Aarhus conference.
This time
“Critical and participatory development of people centered smart
learning ecosystems and territories”
has been chosen as one of the themes that are likely to be
influential throughout the next decade and offer an agenda for
alternatives with computing technologies through new forms of
societal and critical engagement.
Since 2005 we are assisting to a rush to transform cities into
smart cities. At present, however, still doesn’t exist a fully
shared definition of smart city: in the understanding of the
majority a smart city is a sort of dream-city, i.e. a complex and
optimized environment, or eco-system, where it could be desirable
to live. This because it promises to preserve and improve the
wellbeing of society, exploiting information and communication
technologies (ICT) as an infrastructural backbone able to
influence and improve key factors like mobility, environment,
people, quality of life and governance. However, going beyond the
most popular top-down functionalist approach a new vision of
regional and city smartness driven by a ‘people in place centered
design’ approach is emerging. Not by chance, recently we have
assisted to a shift of the meaning ascribed to the adjective
‘smart’ that has incorporated a higher consideration for the
centrality of the individuals, their personal characteristics and
their expectations, the quality of their experience and their
well-being and, as well, for the characteristics of the contexts
in which they work and live, to include also the preservation of
the environment.
In this framework the interaction with the environment is moving
from the metaphor “being able to use” towards the metaphor
“actively influence and critically build”; individuals are
transformed from consumers into “digital enactive” and produce an
increasingly amount of “traces” and “artefacts” that actively
contribute to the re-definition of places and spaces.
It is quite evident that within the development of people centered
smart cities the underlying and ubiquitous techno-ecosystems -
whose embedded intelligence, sensitivity and responsiveness
surround the individuals - challenge the future of the learning
ecosystems and call for a critical and participatory redefinition
of spaces, contents, processes, skills and benchmarking
approaches. Such challenge is not just for researchers or
teachers, but requires the involvement of all potential
stakeholders to develop critically the mediation role of ICT to:
• foster awareness about complexity and its government
(orchestration)
• support the acquisition of appropriate behaviors, skills &
competencies
• promote open access to space, tools, services, practices,
content/data, people/skills
• tame discontinuities (time - space/place - technological -
process - learning practices)
• identify the driving factors of the smartness including those
from the characteristics of local cultures and contexts
• support policy and decision making
• promote social innovation & learning, capacity building and
a sustainable economy
• develop adequate monitoring and benchmarking approaches
• tame privacy, data control, security and safety
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About position papers and authors
According to the expectations of the Critical Alternatives
conference we invite submissions from authors who understand
themselves in line with the spirit of the Aarhus Conferences and
with that of the workshop.
Submitted position papers, while academically sound, will be
evaluated on the capability to:
• inspire the workshop agenda
• offer a strong contribution to theory and practice
• provide new perspectives and offer critical alternatives
• have potential for long lasting impact
Position papers should be maximum 10 pages long and formatted in
LNCS style.
Papers will undergo a double-blind reviewing process (done by
invited reviewers from the program committee) that are
complemented by a meta-review (done by a primary reviewer/PC
member).
Submission and review process will be handled by Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slet2015
To promote discussion we intend to limit the number of accepted
contributions to 20-25 people.
Proceedings
After the workshop, authors of selected contributions will be
invited to prepare a revised and extended paper to be included as
part of a focus section of Interaction Design and Architecture(s)
(IxD&A); an IxD&A slot has been reserved for the first
half of 2016
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php
The focus session will be integrated with high quality papers
submitted following an open call for papers that will be launched
on late Autumn 2015.
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