[GeoIT.org] RAM Colloquium with Albert Acedo (University of Lisbon)

[Rene Westerholt]

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to the first RAM Colloquium:


      Toward a social datum in GIScience using the notion of place


          Dr Albert Acedo (University of Lisbon); Friday, 6 November, 3
          pm CET / 2 pm GMT / 9 am EST, virtual event

Registration via (the link to the Zoom session will shared with all 
registered participants closer to the event): 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/toward-a-social-datum-in-giscience-using-the-notion-of-place-tickets-125496406129

The RAM Colloquium is a forum for discussing the latest research in the 
field of geospatial information science. Invited speakers will report on 
their recent and ongoing work and provide an outlook on major lines and 
challenges ahead in their respective fields. This time, Dr Albert Acedo 
from the University of Lisbon will deliver a talk entitled "Toward a 
social datum in GIScience using the notion of place". You will find the 
abstract below and attached. Do not hesitate to forward this message and 
the attached PDF invitation to your PhD students, colleagues, and 
anybody who might be interested in the talk and discussion.

We look forward to lively participation and discussion!
René Westerholt and the RAM team

*Abstract:*

When social researchers talk about place, they mainly refer to contexts, 
environments, and social artefacts derived from the cognitive idea of 
home, neighbourhood, town, city or country. Conversely, scholars from 
Geographical Information Science (GIScience) often quantitatively read 
the place-based knowledge through user-generated data embedded in 
administrative boundaries and other geometric representations. This 
epistemological disconnection is nourishing the lack of a unified, 
combined, targeted agenda among related disciplines to formalise 
place-based knowledge. This talk presents an overview of Dr Acedo’s 
research developed during the last five years in moving closer social 
and GIScience fields in the urban context in order to unleash the 
benefits of formalising and combining both. Moreover, he will discuss 
his perspective on the big lines ahead to move the topic of place 
further in GIScience and adjoining areas towards a holistic approach. 
The understanding of the place-based urban landscape could reveal novel 
perspectives and mechanisms to advance the knowledge of key 
socio-spatial urban processes and challenges, and hence provide 
theoretical end empirical frameworks for the potential development of 
place-based research in other academic disciplines.
-- 
Dr René Westerholt FRGS
[Juniorprofessor]
[Head, Spatial Modelling Lab]

TU Dortmund University
School of Spatial Planning
Room III/318
August-Schmidt-Straße 10
44227 Dortmund
Germany

[Tel] +49 (0)231 7552287
[Web (uni)] https://ram.raumplanung.tu-dortmund.de/ 
<https://ram.raumplanung.tu-dortmund.de/>
[Web (private)] https://www.westerholt-giscience.net 
<https://www.westerholt-giscience.net>
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