GWUP

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON

GROUPWARE FOR URBAN PLANNING

Lyon, France - February 4-6, 1998

SCOPE

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

SPONSORS

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Wednesday February 4, 1998

9.30 Opening Ceremony, A. Dupagne Chairperson

-Welcoming Address, M. Moulinier or H. Chabert, Greater Lyon Council

-Welcoming Address, Robert Laurini, Claude Bernard University of Lyon, France

-Why Groupware is Important to Urban Planning and Design? Albert Dupagne, University of Liege, Belgium

-Groupware and Alikes, Jean-Claude Courbon, INT-Evry, France

11.15-12.00 Opening Pleanary Session

-An Analysis of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Systems to Support Decision-making in Regional Planning, Rachel Jones, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Cambridge UK. Reprinted in the journal Computer, Environment and Urban Studies, July 1998, Volume 22, Number 4.

14.00-17.00 Plenary Session on Recent Experiences, F. Golay Chairperson

-Dimensions of DSS Application in Urban Planning, Claus Rinner, Dirk Schmidt, GMD FIT KI, Institute for Applied Information Technology, Germany

-Virtual Ryoaji Project: Implementing a Computer-assisted Collaborative Working Environment of a Virtual Temple Garden, Atsuyuki Okabe, Kei-ichi Okunuki, Shin-ichiro Sagara Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan, Teruhisa Kamachi, Sony Corporation, Japan, and Narushige Shiode, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, UK

-Supporting Argumentation Practices in Urban Planning and Design, Chris Tweed, Department of Architecture, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK. Reprinted in the journal Computer, Environment and Urban Studies, July 1998, Volume 22, Number 4.

Thursday February 5, 1998

9.00-12.00 Plenary Session on Public Participation, R. Laurini Chairperson

-Virtual Planning Collaboratories: An Interorganizational Model for Participatory Planning, Xavier R. Lopez, University of California, Berkeley, USA

-Empirical Research Strategies for Evaluating Use of Public Participation GIS, Timothy Nyerges, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and Piotr Jankowski,University of Idaho, Moscow, USA

-Networked GIS for Public Participation - with Emphasis on Utilizing Image Data. Tapani Sarjakovski, Finnish Institute of Geodesy, Finland. Reprinted in the journal Computer, Environment and Urban Studies, July 1998, Volume 22, Number 4.

-Community Participation In Urban Planning, William J. Craig, University of Minnesota, USA. Reprinted in the journal Computer, Environment and Urban Studies, July 1998, Volume 22, Number 4.

14.00-17.00 Plenary Session on Public Participation, C. Tweed Chairperson

-Public GIS under Distributed Space and Time Conditions, Piotr Jankowski, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA

-Place Based Communication Systems - PBCS, Richard Perron, University of Manitoba, Canada

-Assessing the Interests and Perceptions of Stakeholders in Environmental Debates through Argumentation Analysis, Jonathan Gottsegen, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Reprinted in the journal Computer, Environment and Urban Studies, July 1998, Volume 22, Number 4.

Panel discussion: Computer Tools for Public Participation, P. Jankowski Chairperson

Friday February 6, 1998

9.00-12.00 Plenary Session on Visualization for Public Participation, H. Hauska Chairperson

-Groupware for Urban Planning: an Italian Perspective, Franco Vico, Michela Ottana, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

-Spherical Projections as a Communication Instrument for Morphological Decision-making in Urban Design, A Dupagne, J. Teller, University of Liege, Belgium

Panel Discussion: Visualization for Public Participation, W. Craig Chairperson

14.00-16.00 Afternoon Panel Discussion: Research agenda, U. Schiavoni Chairperson

16.00 Closing Ceremony, P. Densham Chairperson

SCOPE

 The scope of this workshop will be to study the potentialities of using "computer-assisted collaborative work" (CSCW) during the urban planning processes. Named also groupware, this set of computer- and network-based technologies allows several users to work together for the same goal, being located in different sites and working with different rhythms. This workshop will convene researchers in urban planning and in computing, in order to examine experiences, to share ideas and to launch a research program in this domain (plan, schedule, etc.). Among the problems to examine, let us mention:


- the analysis of the urban planning processes (possibly varying in different countries and with different juridical frameworks) in connection with project management tools,
- the identification of the actors, their roles, their mission, their constraints,
- the evolution of the alternatives, their assessment, their selection,
- the specifications of the computer tools which can be used,
- the presentation of the plans (map and written statements) during the whole process, and especially during public consultation (animated cartography, simulations, virtual/visual reality, etc.),
- the structuring of databases and knowledge-bases to support this collaborative work,
- etc.

SPONSORS

  • COST-UCE, European Program on Urban Civil Engineering, Information Systems),
  • UDMS (Urban Data Management Society),
  • CASSINI, French Research Group on Geographic Information Systems,
  • National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, USA) Varenius Project,
  • INGUL (National Institute for Urban Engineering of Lyon), now the Ciies Agency.

    • The best papers (title in red) are published by the journal Computer, Environment and Urban Studies, July 1998, Volume 22, Number 4.

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE


    Robert Laurini, University of Lyon I, France, chairman
    Will Craig, University of Minnesota, USA
    Paul Densham, University College London, UK
    Albert Dupagne, University of Liège, Belgium
    François Golay, EPFL, Switzerland
    Mike Goodchild, NCGIA, Santa Barbara, USA
    Hans Hauska, Institute for Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Sweden
    Robert Jeansoulin, CNRS Marseilles, France
    Karen Kemp, NCGIA, Santa Barbara, USA
    Pekka Lahti, VTT, Finland
    Massimo Rumor, President of UDMS, Padua, Italy
    Ugo Schiavoni, University of Roma, Italy
    Chris Tweed, Queen's University of Belfast, UK

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