We are very glad to announce Damiano has received the Young Scholar Award from ESRI at the ESRI User Conference in San Diego.
The prize was given for the maps he designed in the research project A sense of place commissioned by the City of Turku.
We wanted to express our gratitude to the Turku Urban Research Program for supporting our our research, the Architecture dept. of the Estonian Academy of Arts for providing software infrastructures, to AlphaGIS for hosting Damiano overseas and off course to ESRI to make him part of the Your Professionals Network.
ESRI Young Scholar Award 2015
The main research interest was to study how Location Based Social Network data can be used for the urban and transportation planning. In case of City of Turku, this was done to discuss the current spatio-temporal dynamics in its city centre, indicating potentials for further development, and assessing how a new tram line that may be constructed would change the situation.
Overall, the tasks were focused on exploring which streets and spaces in Turku’s city centre are more likely to attract people today and how the situation might change if a new tram line will be constructed.
ESRI, Most Unique Map award
Every year ESRI organises an international competition to select the most unique maps of the year. With over 900 submissions, we are very glad to announce that SPIN Unit was awarded the 2nd prize for the Most Unique Map of the year with Accessibility and Instagram pictures in Turku, Finland. The map will also be featured in XYHT Magazine in the coming issue of September.
Taking it forward
The methodologies behind the award winning research will be displayed and put into practice at Urban Design London where we are invited to talk about our work and organising a workshop in cooperation with Nordkapp to study the digital footprint of the new urban development of King’s Cross Railroad Yards in London – supported by IBM and UCL.
Talk | 2 Sept. at 10am
Data-driven Planning Methodologies by Daniel Giovannini
The city is defined by its physical structure, infrastructure, and networks. Interactions and data flows create a constantly evolving information system. This session will present a series of case studies and data-driven planning methodologies tailored to the small-scale urban area. New tools and techniques can be developed to monitor trends in both the networked and the physical city, and answer current demands as they emerge.
Workshop | 5 Sept.
Tech innovation workshop by Damiano Cerrone
When we talk about spatial planning, we are led to consider the urban landscape as a physical arrangement defined by objects, voids and their visible relations. For decades, the field of urban morphology has sought to unveil, measure and study these relations to learn more about the evolution of the city form. This workshop explores the landscape of the invisible city, using digital traces to unveil, measure and study the meta-morphology of the city. Participants will use location-based social media data to carry out GIS surveys and observation-based spatio-temporal analyses of activity patterns in London (area to be defined). We will focus in particular on Instagram data. Participant will be divided into two groups: one will use geolocated Instagram pictures to analyse spatio-temporal patterns in GIS, the other will carry out a qualitative analysis on a sample of Instagram pictures taken from a selection of public spaces. Together, the two groups will investigate the relation between the digital and physical landscapes, while highlighting the relevance of location-based social networks for urban and transportation planning.
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Other important dates
9 September | TAB-Lab opening
TAB-Lab is the exhibition we are curating for the Tallinn Architecture Biennale with the goal to produce installation that are the results of a collaboration process between schools, professionals and the industry.
This year the event formerly known as the Schools’ Exhibition will morph into a TAB-Lab Research and Development Exhibition. Bringing together a selection of technology companies matched to architecture schools. TAB-Lab is a great opportunity for any student interested in architecture to see, which architecture schools excel in which areas – it is really a sort of pocket-size exhibition fair.
The exhibition will explore what the next industrial revolution means for architecture and the built environment. TAB-Lab will showcase cutting edge designs and processes. Furthermore, it will open a forum for both creative and critical discussion on the social, political, economic and human dimensions of the current systemic transition.
17.9 | Talk
ON + OFF. (Dis-) Embarking Rhythms of Transient Communities
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7.10 | Keynote
Latvian ESRI Users conference
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8.10 | Keynote
Lithuania ESRI Users conference
9.10 | Exhibition
Data drift
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10.10 | Talk
Renewable future conference
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18.11 | Keynote
Estonia ESRI Users conference
Methods and technologies used for the recent research projects in Turku and London will be also used by Damiano in the courses he will be teaching this semester with Landscape Architecture students in Tallinn University of Technology and with Urban Studies students at the Estonian Academy of Arts.