Schedule

DxD26: Infrastructure + Intelligibility (draft schedule)

Wednesday 1st July

9:30 – 9:45: Introduction to the conference – Geoff Cox
Introductions to the Inaugural lecture – Rodney Day (Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research & Innovation, LSBU) & Nellie van de Griend  (Dean of Faculty Technology, Innovation and Society, The Hague University of Applied Sciences)

09:45 – 10:45: Keynote/Inaugural lecture and discussion:

Leveraging data-driven innovations for sustainable cities – Rizal Sebastian (Chair of Future Urban Systems, The Hague University of Applied Sciences / Visiting Professor, LSBU)

Break (tea & coffee)

// Panel 1: 11:15-12:45

Tenesha Caton & Danielle Strydom (Researchers of Future Urban Systems, THUAS) – title TBC
Abouzar Estebsari & Chika Udeaja
(LSBU) – Advances in Geographically Distributed Real-Time Co-Simulation for Smart City Digital Twins
Annet Dekker, Ofra Cnaani, & Noa Roei
(University of Amsterdam) – Inhabiting Digital Twins as Infrastructural Imagery

Lunch (provided)

// Panel 2: 13:45 – 15:15

Ozan Kamiloglu (LSBU) – Does justice need space?
Speaker TBC

Daniel Wing Hang Tang (LSBU/Bartlett) – How Computational Methods Contribute to the Study of Human Perception and Cognition

break (water)

// Panel 3: 15:30-17:00

Luís Miranda da Cruz (TU Delft) – title TBC 
Speaker TBC

Mariana Marangoni & Shinji Toya (UAL) – Compost Computer: A Minimal Energy Webserver Powered by Soil-based Microbial Bio-batteries

Break (drinks & snacks)

// Screening: 18:00-20:00 (doors open 17:30)

Ghost in the Machine (110 mins) + in-person Q&A with director Valerie Veatch

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Thursday 2nd July

Engaging Critical Literacies, co-organised with the Building Future Communities Research Centre

Presentations derived from an open call. We will be joined by guest speaker Ben Garside (Raspberry Pi Foundation), and the day will conclude with a session led by Partnership for Young London. Full schedule to be announced.

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