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International Conference
Modeling Spaces - Modifying Societies
7 - 9 October 2009, Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany
The conference is organized by the graduate program Topology of Technology
of the Darmstadt University of Technology.
Registration is now open on the conference website
http://www.modelingspaces.com.
Register early and save!
This conference aims to increase our understanding of the power and
limitations of models, their construction and effects in the sciences and in
fields of practice. It provides a forum for the discussion of qualitative and
quantitative models composed of verbal propositions, numerical abstractions,
and visualizations - and their distinctive spatial dimension.
Of particular interest are issues that cut across established scientific
disciplines and analyze the boundaries between science, technology, society,
and politics.
PROGRAM
Oct 7
18:00
Reception and address of welcome: Petra Gehring and Mikael Hård
19:00
1st keynote address: Paul N. Edwards (University of Michigan): Versions of the
Atmosphere: Climate Models, Data Models, Global Space and Time
Oct 8
8:00
Registration
8:30
Introduction: Josef Wiemeyer
9:00
2nd keynote address: Oskar von Stryk (TU Darmstadt): Models and Simulation
in Engineering: Dynamics of Motion and Robot Intelligence
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Parallel Sessions
Stream 1: E1-E3
Epistemology and Reflection
Stream 2: P1-P3
Production and Planning
Stream 3: A1-A3
Application and Resistance
E1 Simulation and Prototypes (Chair: Josef Wiemeyer)
Witold-Roger Poganietz: CarboMoG. An Instrument to Manage Carbon Flows
Sabine Höhler: A Model of Sustainability? (Biosphere 2)
Juan Manuel Durán: Computer Models Revisited
P1 Mode(l)s of Planning (Chair: Frauke Nowak)
Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera: Rhizome Cities
Liam Sharratt: Models as Mediators of Design. The Case of BREEAM
Christa Kamleithner: Early Theories on Zoning
A1 Failed Futures (Chair: Mikael Hård)
Lino Camprubi: Appetite for Destruction. Models and the Sciences of
Construction in Early Francoist Spain
Stefan Sandmeier: The Cybernetic Vision of a Swiss Integral Concept for
Transport (1972-77)
Sebastian Ureta: Modeling Future Passengers of Public Transport in Santiago,
Chile
13:00
Lunch Break
14:00
3rd keynote address: Amy Hillier (University of Pennsylvania): Mapping Social
Patterns: The Making and Unmaking of Inequality
15:30
Coffee Break
16:00
Parallel Sessions
E2 Communicating Spatial Information (Chair: Frauke Nowak)
Katrina Boulding: Technology as Landscape
Susan Drucker, Gary Gumpert: Urban Planning and Urban Communication
Maria Prieto: Networking Place Models
P2 Retrieving Spatial Information (Chair: Josef Wiemeyer)
Toshiyuki Kaneda: Potential to Space Modeling Through Pedestrian Agent
Simulation
John Zacharias: Environmental Determinants of Non-motorized Behavior
Rodrigo Mora: Retrieving Hierarchical Information from Spatial Networks
A2 Spatial Power of Models (Chair: Susanne Schregel)
Florentina Hausknotz: Cities on the Verge of Spatial War
Cesar Garcia-Diaz: The Dynamics of Rural-to-urban Migration in an
Evolutionary Model
Sebastian Haumann: Seeking Urban Order - Modernism and Segregation
20:00
Dinner at Jagdhofkeller
Oct 9
9:30
Parallel Sessions
E3 Dealing with Uncertainties (Chair: Sonja Palfner)
Jannes Fröhlich: Model-based Climate Projections in Administrative Discourse
Maurice Ertsen: Hydraulic Models in Archaeology
Florian Keil, Stefan Liehr: A (Self-) Critical Thought on the Use of Modelling in
Transdisciplinary Research. The Case of Environmental Risk Management
P3 Participation and Spatial Planning (Chair: Sebastian Haumann)
Margarita Greene: Neighborhood Construction
Dagmar Haase: Simulating Future Land Use Change in Urban Regions
Christian Derix: Generating and Measuring Public Realm
A3 Sustainability and Stakeholders (Chair: Philipp Benz)
Reinhard König: Computer-based Methods for a Socially Sustainable Urban and
Regional Planning
Geraldine Abrami: Supporting Case Studies/Comparison with a Generic Model of
Urban-rural Water Related Interdependencies
Martin Zimmermann: Water Supply Systems in the Context of Cybernetics and
Sustainable Development
11:30
Lunch Break
12:30
4th keynote address: Roland W. Scholz (ETH Zürich): Transdisciplinarity,
System Sciences, and Prospective Modeling in Regional Transformation
14:00
Panel Discussion
15:30
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