Joint DACAS/ICTP-SAIFR Workshop on Modelling Urban Systems in São Paulo, Brazil
20-24 June 2016, São Paulo, Brazil
The aim of the ESRC Strategic Network: Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is to promote an interdisciplinary complexity science approach to the study of urban data and the links between soft and hard systems as the basis for the development of innovative technological applications. DACAS connects non-academic stakeholders from the public, private and third sectors and noted academics with backgrounds in various relevant disciplines in China, Brazil and the UK.
DACAS will hold a workshop at the Institute for Theoretical Physics – South-American Institute for Fundamental Research in São Paulo, Brazil, 20-24 June 2016.
The week-long event will include talks, workshops and collaborative sessions with the aim to identify how DACAS activities can help to address the specific challenges of Brazil’s urban transformation. Workshop activities will aim to identify data availability and needs and suitable techniques for modelling linked urban systems based on data. They are grouped in four interrelated tracks:
• Problem Formulation: Defining urban systems (scalar, temporal, behavioural and spatial, etc.) and minimum and maximum levels of system definition for soft and hard systems
• Concept Transferability: Identification of appropriate theoretical concepts from the complexity sciences to challenge existing disciplinary research ontologies
• Appropriate Methods: Identification of data availability and needs and, subsequently, appropriate, inadequate or incompatible methods for the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data in the study of urban transformation and cities as complex adaptive systems
• Model Typology: Development of a model typology based on suitable model types from the various complexity sciences when applied to a study of data and cities as complex adaptive systems
Please get in touch if you wish to participate. Bursaries for PhD and Early Career Researchers are available. The call for applications is now open.
Committee: Roberto Kraenkel, Deljana Iossifova, Ulysses Sengupta