UBISS 2024 – 12th International UBI Summer School
Oulu, Finland, 10-15 June 2024 🇫🇮
Professor Marcus Foth of the QUT More-than-Human Futures research group will return to Oulu in Finland this year to co-host one of the student workshops together with his esteemed colleagues Assoc. Prof. Jaz Choi and Dr Ekaterina Gilman.
UBISS 2024 invites researchers, students, and industry and public sector professionals to gain theoretical insights and personal hands on experience on selected topics under the tutelage of distinguished experts. UBISS 2024 builds upon the legacy of the previous 11 successful UBI Summer Schools hosted by Professor Timo Ojala in Oulu since 2010.
CARE-FULL! MORE-THAN-HUMAN URBAN FUTURES
With the increasing awareness of the detrimental effects of anthropocentrism, interests in how we might understand and engage with the more-than-human have been growing substantially across various fields of research and practice, including interaction design. This workshop will explore different approaches to interaction design that can help us move away from human-centric views particularly evident in the current smart cities and urban informatics discourses. Recognising our complex entanglements with planetary ecosystems and in search of justice for humans and other-than-humans, we will work with and across diverse disciplines such as HCI, STS, geography, critical data studies, planning, and design, to reconsider concepts and practices that can help us re-imagine more-than-human futures for urban environments.
Topics to be covered will include:
- Critiques of and alternative approaches to smart cities, digital twins, urban informatics;
- More-than-human design;
- Care and co-creation;
- Multispecies justice.
Hosted by the Center for Ubiquitous Computing at the University of Oulu
Credits: 5 ECTS (University of Oulu course code 521154S)
Stage 1 application deadline: 11 March 2024
Registration fee: 300 EUR
Accommodation: 40 EUR/day (per person in twin bed room in luxurious villa with sauna)
Further information and the online application form are available here.
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[Image co-created by Prof. Kaisa Väänänen and ChatGPT Plus – used with permission.]Details:
| Location: | Oulu, Finland [link to map] |
| Start Date: | 10/06/2024 [add to calendar] |
| Start Time: | 8.15am |
| End Date: | 15/06/2024 |
| End Time: | 11.59pm |
| RSVP By: | Monday 11th of March 2024 |
| Cost: | EUR 300 |
| Organiser: | University of Oulu |
| Enquiries: | Prof. Timo Ojala: timo.ojala@oulu.fi |
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