<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000" size="2">Design & The City 2016</font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><a href="http://designandthecity.eu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://designandthecity.eu</font></span></a></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">Amsterdam, April 19-22, 2016</font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">Call for Workshop Organizers</font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">The
Design & The City conference explores citizen-centered design
approaches for the smart city, addressing how social media, big data and
other digital technologies may contribute to more sustainable, liveable
and sociable urban communities. Specific focus of the conference is on
the expanding role of designers as initiators, innovators, campaigners,
connectors, organizers, critics and imagineers of alternative urban
futures. </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">The conference is organized by the </font></span><a href="http://www.amsterdamuas.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences</font></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> and takes place at </font></span><a href="http://www.knowledgemile.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Knowledge Mile</font></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">, a living lab in the centre of Amsterdam. It takes place in the context of the Dutch presidency of the EU.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">We
are inviting proposals from designers, activists, researchers, media
labs, and others for workshops to be held on April 22, 2016. Workshops
are unique opportunities for engaging practitioners, researchers and
conference attendees in a productive discussion. </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">This
call is programmatically inclusive and broad: the Design & the City
conference welcomes proposals for workshops that connect urban spaces
to design, research, education, art, playfulness and activism. Workshops
should involve attendees in concrete discussions and hands-on
activities, with the objective of experimenting with new concepts,
fostering peer-to-peer discussion and learning-by-doing.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">Workshops
will take place on Friday April 22, 2016, either as a half-day or
full-day activities, ideally with a mid-morning break, a lunch break,
and a mid-afternoon break. They should bring attendees together around
design issues for citizen-centered smart cities, discussing them in a
participatory and/or practical way. Possible examples could include
co-design sessions, booksprints, roundtables, hackathons, etc. Workshops
should have some kind of tangible output, such as a shared wiki, a
curated selection of sketches, a collective paper or an artifact. </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">Each
workshop organizer will produce their own call for participants and
will be able to select them. Conference organizers will advertise calls
on the main website, and in addition to this workshop organizers will
disseminate them in their own networks. Workshop organizers are
responsible for documenting the outputs and making them available on a
platform of their choice, which will be linked to the main conference
website. Conference organizers will arrange for food and coffee, for
working space, as well as reasonable logistics and some equipment (such
as projectors, whiteboards, wifi access...). Workshop organizers will
receive free entrance to the main conference; a small fee will be
charged to workshop participants to cover for lunch and other logistics.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">Deadline for proposals is December 7, notice of acceptance can be expected in January 2016.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">Proposals should include:</font></p><ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;direction:ltr"><li style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Workshop title</font></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Organizers’ names and short bios</font></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Short description of the proposed topic, and its relevance to the general conference theme (300 words max)</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Short description of the methodologies adopted (e.g. discussion, co-creation, rapid paper prototyping…) </span>(250 words max)</font></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Short
description of the participants’ required competences, if any, and
necessary equipment (e.g. participants should bring a camera and a
sketchpad) (250 words max)</font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Short description of the expected outputs, as well as the strategies for making them accessible (250 words max) </font></span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Duration
of the workshop (full-day, half-day) and preferred location (e.g.
classroom, open space, itinerant workshop in public areas…)</font></span></p></li></ol><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">Proposals should be sent as attachments to </font></span><a href="mailto:info@designandthecity.eu" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">info@designandthecity.eu</font></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> with “Workshop Proposal” in the subject line. You can also reach us at this email address for any further questions.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">On behalf of the Design & the City organizing committee: </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">Martijn de Waal (Programme Coordinator) & Gabriele Ferri (Workshop Coordinator),</font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="http://designandthecity.eu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://designandthecity.eu</font></span></a> </font><span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></span></div>