PLATIAL'19: PLATIAL'19: International Symposium on Platial Information Science University of Warwick Coventry, UK, September 5-6, 2019 |
Conference website | http://platial19.platialscience.net/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=platial19 |
Submission deadline | July 19, 2019 |
People “live” and constitute places every day through recurrent practices and experience. Our everyday lives, however, are complex, and so are places. In contrast to abstract space, the way people experience places includes a range of aspects like physical setting, meaning, and emotional attachment. This inherent complexity requires researchers to investigate the concept of place from a variety of viewpoints. The formal representation of place–a major goal in GIScience related to place–is no exception and can only be successfully addressed if we consider geographical, psychological, anthropological, sociological, cognitive, and other perspectives.
So far, however, interdisciplinary cooperation on the topic of place has been rare. Geographers have developed a rich conceptual understanding of holistic places, psychologists and cognitive scientists deal with the more individual aspects of perception and conceptualisation, and GIScience scholars are focussing on formalising and conceptualising place-based GIS largely capitalising on a wealth of viewpoints. Research on place has not yet been carried out on a larger scale beyond the boundaries of those different domains. In view of the complexity described above, interdisciplinary approaches are desirable and will presumably lead to a better understanding of the concept of place than to consider it monodisciplinarily.
The motto of this year’s symposium is therefore interdisciplinarity. We hope to bring together place-based researchers from different disciplines to discuss the current state of platial research.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The papers will be subject to double-blind review by at least two members of our programme committee (see below). Therefore, please anonymize your initial submission and include authors names and acknowledgements just after you have done all requested revisions later. Your papers shall be prepared in adherence to the guidelines published on the symposium website (http://platial19.platialscience.net). You can find the template and start writing on Overleaf. The manuscripts should not exceed 4,000 words, including figures and references (figures count as 300 words).
List of Topics
- Which approaches of place representation exist in various disciplines?
- How can existing theoretical approaches of platial representation from different disciplines be integrated towards a unified notion of place?
- How can we move forward the integration of platial information with GIS?
- What might be a suitable strategy for addressing the subjectivity inherent to platial information?
- What are the roles of uncertainty and fuzziness in a place-based theory of geographical information?
- In which ways can places be visualised, in particular at multiple scales?
- Which novel perspectives (e.g., with respect to academic progress, practical applications, methodological frameworks) does place-based analysis provide?
- How can we demonstrate the practical usefulness of place-based information by means of examples and in comparison to spatial information?
- (Further topics are welcome if they fit the overall theme of this symposium.)
Committees
Programme Committee
- Thomas Blaschke (University of Salzburg, Austria)
- Alexis Comber (University of Leeds, UK)
- Ekatarina Egorova (Massey University, New Zealand)
- Michael F. Goodchild (University of California Santa Barbara, US)
- Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California Santa Barbara, US)
- Karen Kemp (University of Southern California Dornsife, US)
- Grant McKenzie (McGill University, Canada)
- Franz-Benjamin Mocnik (Heidelberg University, Germany)
- Alenka Poplin (Iowa State University, US)
- Simon Scheider (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Kathleen Stewart (University of Maryland, US)
- Thora Tenbrink (Bangor University, UK)
- Nigel Thrift (University of Warwick, UK)
- René Westerholt (University of Warwick, UK)
- Stephan Winter (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Organizing committee
Invited Speakers
Publication
All accepted short papers will be published with Zenodo, an EU funded and CERN operated publication outlet for workshop and conference proceedings. Zenodo publications are assigned citable DOIs and support inclusion of ORCIDs. You may want to have a look at last year’s proceedings to get an impression. We further invite authors to extend their short paper contributions to long papers after the symposium, which could then be submitted to an adjoint special issue we are planning to publish with an established GIScience journal. The special issue we set-up for last year’s event is currently at review stage and will be published with Transactions in GIS.
Venue
The symposium will be held from 5 to 6 September at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to platial19@platialscience.net.