Joint Doctorate in Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities
Short Description
GEOTEC is one of three partners organising the Joint Doctorate “Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities (GEO-C)”, funded under the EU Marie Curie International Training Networks (ITN) program, European Joint Doctorates (EJD). GEO-C aims to contribute methods and tools to realise smart and open cities, in which all groups of society can participate on all levels and benefit in many ways. Complementary strands of research in GEO-C (participation, data analysis & fusion, services) will lead to an improved understanding of how to build open cities and will produce a prototypical open city toolkit. With a budget of over 3’5 million EURO, Geo-C provides 15 Phd students (5 in Spain, 5 in Portugal, 5 in Germany) the opportunity to do research and advance the state of the art in smart and open cities.
GEOTEC’s contribution
The main contribution is the Open City Toolkit (OCT), that it is envisioned as an integrated, open source software empowering citizens, providing them with analytical tools and citizen-centric services in the context of a smart city. It is incorporating the results of the various research lines within the GEO-C phd students. It is designed to keep all the resulting resources (i.e., data, processes, services, guidelines, standards, ontologies, and models) along with utilities, tools and applications that make use of these resources
Publications
Portela, Manuel; Granell-Canut, Carlos Approaching empathy in the interaction with everyday objects. A comprehensive path to understand Affect and Place in the urban context Conference 8th International conference on Communities and Technologies 2017 conference, Doctoral Consortium. Troyes, France, 26 June 2017. , 2017. @conference{Portela2017, title = {Approaching empathy in the interaction with everyday objects. A comprehensive path to understand Affect and Place in the urban context}, author = {Manuel Portela and Carlos Granell-Canut}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-06-26}, booktitle = {8th International conference on Communities and Technologies 2017 conference, Doctoral Consortium. Troyes, France, 26 June 2017. }, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {conference} } |
Acedo-Sánchez, Albert; Painho, Marco; Casteleyn, Sven Place and city: Operationalizing sense of place and social capital in the urban context Journal Article In: Transactions in GIS, 21 (3), pp. 503-520, 2017, ISSN: 1467-9671. @article{TGIS:TGIS12282, title = {Place and city: Operationalizing sense of place and social capital in the urban context}, author = { Albert Acedo-Sánchez and Marco Painho and Sven Casteleyn}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12282}, doi = {10.1111/tgis.12282}, issn = {1467-9671}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-06-01}, journal = {Transactions in GIS}, volume = {21}, number = {3}, pages = {503-520}, abstract = {The academic interest in social concepts in city contexts, such as sense of place and social capital, has been growing in the last decades. We present a systematic literature review that confirms the strong relationship between sense of place and social capital, from a social sciences point-of-view. It also reveal that little attention has been paid to their spatial dimensions at the urban level, thereby missing the chance to exploit socio-spatial knowledge to improve the day-to-day life in and functioning of the city (e.g. in planning processes, citizen participation, civic engagement). We therefore examine sense of place and social capital from a Geographic Information Science (GISc) viewpoint, and present a formal conceptualization and initial theoretical framework which explicitly describes both concepts, and the relation between them, within the context of a city and from a spatial point of view.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } The academic interest in social concepts in city contexts, such as sense of place and social capital, has been growing in the last decades. We present a systematic literature review that confirms the strong relationship between sense of place and social capital, from a social sciences point-of-view. It also reveal that little attention has been paid to their spatial dimensions at the urban level, thereby missing the chance to exploit socio-spatial knowledge to improve the day-to-day life in and functioning of the city (e.g. in planning processes, citizen participation, civic engagement). We therefore examine sense of place and social capital from a Geographic Information Science (GISc) viewpoint, and present a formal conceptualization and initial theoretical framework which explicitly describes both concepts, and the relation between them, within the context of a city and from a spatial point of view. |
Technical contact: Sergi Trilles (strilles@uji.es)
IP: Joaquín Huerta (huerta@uji.es)
Website: http://geo-c.eu/