UrBio International Seminar

September 7, 2023

Auditório do Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa

Picoas Plaza, Rua Viriato 13E

 

 

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?

 

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PROGRAMME

 

9h – Opening Session

 

9h15 – 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

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11h00 – Introducing Participatory Mobile Biosensing

Daniel Paiva, Universidade de Lisboa

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11h30 – Towards Smarter Urban Planning and Design

Affective mapping and scenarios for urban emotions

Daniel Paiva, Eduardo Brito-Henriques & Inês Boavida-Portugal, Universidade de Lisboa

 

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

 

13h – Closing Session