Never Stand Still Built Environment
2011 InternationalSymposium + Workshop onUbiquitous Cities (u-Cities)
28th & 29th November Design @ Eng StudioUniversity of New South WalesWeb: www.u-cities.org Email : [email protected] EOI: register@u-cities org
Participants
Planning and urban development in Australia has recently shifted from an old paradigm of conventional integrated planning, to a new paradigm of an intelligent, setting-based, approach. This new approach is being applied to chronic urban problems in infrastructure provision and management in regional and peri-urban areas. The most influential intelligent settings based approach to planning and urban development has been the Ubiquitous City Initiative (u-City). u-City acknowledges that human activity occurs within places and that urban infrastructure provision (rather than physical construction) must enter the smart system, digital networking, logistic process and e-policy dialogue that shapes those places. Based on a combination of urban infrastructure, information and communication technologies, mobile and wireless digital sensor networks, the u-City will digitise the built environment using broadband enabled technologies. u-City will provide tools and technical infrastructure for sustainable development, planning and support networks, urban service delivery, and integrated planning across the region.
The 2011 International Symposium and Workshop on Ubiquitous Cities will bring together people from different sectors to discuss important issues regarding the capacity of digital interventions to create local connections that sustain urban development, at a time when affordable strategies are imperative.
Preamble
The primary focus of the 2011 International Symposium + Workshop on Ubiquitous Cities is under the following three domains:
+ Urban Planning with Ubiquitous Computing Technologies (4G, WiFi, WiBro, RFID etc.) + Intelligent & Smart Systems in Urban Infrastructure Management+ Information and Communication Technologie (ICT) and Planning Processes
Under these primary foci, topics that will be discussed are:
+ Impact of the recent ubiquitous computing technologies on lifestyles and human behaviours + Mapping of activity patterns and spatial-temporal configurations via ubiquitous computing + Technology convergence and multi-media business + Multi-disciplinary information modeling for planning processes+ Information modeling for developing proposals for new projects+ Urban services and infrastructure provision+ ICTs for public participation and governance+ Energy efficiency for modern buildings through artificial intelligence+ Environmental information modeling for sustainable design+ Indoor activity mapping and environmental monitoring+ System response to context+ Repurposing computer gaming technology for urban systems+ Digital media and design systems+ Time-scale, activity pattern and streetscape design
Focus
Speakers
Professor Sangho LeeDepartment of Urban Planning and Engineering,Hanbat National University, South Korea
Sangho Lee is a professor at the Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Hanbat National University, Korea. He has also lead the Ubiquitous City Research Cluster (UCRC) which initiates research on the future of the city and the city of future. His research focuses on ubiquitous city planning, design and its application; forecasting the futuristic society, planning ubiquitous services and mobile/built ubiquitous infrastructure, designing ubiquitous spatial structure and land use, and management planning.
He worked at Samsung Group and is a member of Korean Presidential Committee on Balanced National Development Planning and Policy. He designed the philosophy, vision, and strategies of Korea Ubiquitous City and the Seoul Ubiquitous City Master plan. He is an executive board member of the Knowledge City World Summit, an International advisory board member of World Capital Institute, and is on the international jury of international award Barcelona smart city. He can be contacted at [email protected]
Associate Professor Tan Yigitcanlar School of Urban Development Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering,Queensland University of Technology
Within the broad field of urban development Dr. Tan Yigitcanlar and his research team have defined six main research areas:
- Knowledge-based urban development, knowledge cities, creative urban regions- Global and local economic development, knowledge industries, knowledge community precincts- Sustainable urban and transport development, urban and transport modelling, accessibility planning- Climate change, water sensitive urban design, infrastructure planning- Web-based decision support systems, public participatory planning, healthy city and communities- Urban technology, ubiquitous eco cities, urban management
Professor Pradeep RayDirector of APuHCAsia-Pacific Ubiquitous Healthcare Research Centre (APuHC)School of Information Systems & Technology ManagementUniversity of New South Wales
Pradeep Ray is a Senior Member of the Academic staff at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the founder of the International Initiative for ubiquitous Healthcare (u-Health) that is setting up a chain of u-Health research centers called Asia-Pacific ubiquitous Healthcare Research Centre (APuHC) with nodes in Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea and India.
This u-Health initiative, launched during the Med-e-Tel 2006 in Luxembourg in April 2006, is aimed at exploiting the mobile broadband communication technologies for healthcare. He is currently leading the WHO research initiative called e-Health for Health Care Delivery (eHCD) involving a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region. As an active member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), he has been involved in organising a number of international conferences.
Associate Professor Youn Taik LeemDirector of UCRCUbiquitous City Research Cluster (UCRC)Korea
Youn Taik Leem is Associate Professor in the department of urban planning and engineering, Hanbat National University, Korea. His research focuses on ubiquitous city planning and its application; forecasting the futuristic society; planning ubiquitous services and ubiquitous computing mobile/built environment; designing ubiquitous spatial structure and land use; and management planning. He gained a patent for ‘experimental urban planning and simulation system as ubiquitous spatial decision support system’.
Speakers
Francis RheePrincipal EngineerPublic Business ArchitectSamsung SDSSouth Korea
Francis Rhee is a principal engineer and business architect of Smart Infrastructure Engineering (SIE) in Samsung SDS.
He is responsible for the U-city, railroad and airport system integration business and leading all of SDS’construction and transportation projects globally. Francis and his team help to develop customers’strategy and master plan and excavate the projects.
Francis has over 21 years of experience in managing complex IT projects where he was responsible for preparing the overall business plans, business process, budgets and financial forecasts for managing the IT organization, and delivering projects.
Francis also implements appropriate policies, procedures and systems to guide and support a team of technical, financial, and administrative staff.
Dr Dean EconomouTechnology StrategistNational ICT Australia Ltd (NICTA)
Dr Dean Economou’s career spans the research, commercial and government sectors. He has held senior positions at CSIRO, including Director of CSIRO’s Networking Technology Lab. He was a co-founder of the Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy and later, Director, where he led the bid for an additional $25m in cash and in-kind.
Dean joined the Smart Internet Technology CRC in 2005 as Director of Media and Health where he developed projects in clinical handover, adverse medical event prediction and immersive audio (later sold to Dolby). He was a key part of the team for the successful $100m Smart Services CRC bid, developing the industry-relevant research program across 22 companies and universities in Media, Health, Government and Finance sectors. Key organisations included Fairfax Media, Westpac, Telstra, SAP, Infosys, Sensis, and the NSW and QLD State Governments.
He joined NICTA in 2008 reporting to the CEO to investigate the use of ICT in urban environments and to develop Smart Infrastructure capability. He was part of the team which developed NICTA’s R and D services business and is currently working on projects across the Digital Economy, Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics. He also convenes the Media Thought Leaders Group for the Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation.
Speakers
Dr Steve HodgkinsonResearch Director - IT Asia/PacificOvum
Steve Hodgkinson is the director of Ovum’s IT research and advisory services in the Asia Pacific region. He authors research reports and advises clients on a range of IT strategy, purchasing and management decisions. A major focus of his research work is e-Government strategy, shared services, developments in web 2.0, enterprise 2.0 and cloud computing technology trends, and the evolution of software platforms to support collaboration and knowledge work. Steve is regularly asked to present at industry conferences and public sector events on ICT trends and issues in public sector ICT. He is a regular contributor to a range of IT publications such as MIS and CIO magazines.
Prior to joining Ovum in 2006 he was the eGovernment Director and Deputy CIO for the Victorian State government in Melbourne, where he was responsible for eGovernment and IT strategy across the State Government’s departments and agencies. He led a five year program of activity to establish the Office of the CIO and implement shared services and infrastructure consolidation initiatives. Steve has a depth of business and IT strategy and experience with large public and private sector organisations in Europe and Australasia, and also founded and sold an eCommerce company. He has a doctorate in Management Studies from the University of Oxford and a first class honours degree from the University of Otago in New Zealand. His doctorate was focused on the role of CIO functions in large multi-business organisations.
Michelle TabetSenior Strategic DesignerArup
Michelle Tabet is an urbanist leading Arup’s Urban Informatics Team in Sydney.
From an urban planning and mapping background, Michelle has developed an interest in smart cities, strategic design and spatial analysis. Michelle is also involved in the exploration of how information technology, social media and real-time information drive business model transformation, service delivery transformation, large-scale behaviour change and can form part of an effective communication strategy with community. Much of Michelle’s work recently has involved developing brand strategies for programs and places, strategic design and user experience strategies, which are services often articulated around a strong consultation process and communication strategy.
Speakers
Steve HillierResearch ManagerStrategy & Economic DevelopmentCity of Sydney Council
Steve has a background in Urban Geography, and has been working with the City of Sydney’s Research Unit for over 13 years. His main role over this period has been to manage and implement the City’s 5-yearly Floor Space and Employment Survey, and to manage the City’s development statistics (major land use), the Household and Resident Surveys, data for the Community Indicators Framework and other assorted data sets, and to analyse, report and disseminate information from these data sets to various internal and external parties as required.
The 2006 Floor Space and Employment Survey was a world first spatial model of an entire City/CBD/LGA, which included every building (27,000), every business (19,700) and every unique floor space use (630,000) over a 26km² area. The data includes all major land uses of individual buildings, industry mix and location (horizontal and vertical) for all businesses, all employment numbers by use, industry and location, and various capacity measures, including parking, seating, dwellings and accommodation. The data forms the basis of Sustainable Sydney 2030, and numerous Council and external projects and strategies.
Paul McCarthyBusiness Development ManagerAustralian Centre for Broadband Innovation CSIRO ICT Centre
Paul McCarthy has recently joined the Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation (ACBI) as Business Development Manager. ACBI is demonstrating a range of innovative next-generation broadband applications in Health, Education, Entertainment, Government Services, Business and the Environment. ACBI is a national partnership between CSIRO and NICTA with initial foundation funding from the NSW and Tasmanian Governments. Prior his role at ACBI, Paul has established and run a number of successful digital media, research and services enterprises for IBM Australia and Digital Media Limited. He has a strong interest global business, technology and media and their happy coalescence in Australia in this early part of the 21st century.
Paul has worked as an expert consultant to industry and government helping establishing two new large-scale national Research and Innovation Labs the Securities Industry Research Centre Asia Pacific (SIRCA) and National ICT Australia (NICTA). Paul also has run a number of strategic statewide digital media initiatives for the New South Wales Government including the pilot Public and Government Information TV service – Channel NSW which was broadcast in Sydney from 2004-2008. Paul is an active member of the digital media and services industry. Paul is co-founder of Australia’s leading online services awards — the AMBERs as well as longstanding chair of the prestigious and long running Annual AIMIA Awards – Australia and NZ’s peak Online and Digital Media Awards.
Speakers
Dr. Hoon HanSenior LecturerSchool of Construction, Planning & PropertyFaculty of Built EnvironmentUniversity of New South Wales
Dr Han is a Senior Lecturer in the planning and urban development program. He has designed many research projects and taught courses from a wide range of both discipline specific and multi-disciplinary perspectives, including in the areas of housing market, urban economics, urban planning and design, health and built environment, spatially integrated social science research methods.
Over the past 15 years Dr Han developed a comprehensive knowledge of environmental and of contemporary urban planning issues including housing affordability (particularly for income support recipients and older people), urban consolidation (inner city renewal) vs. decentralisation (Greenfield development), social polarization and sustainable development in the area of urban planning” in an Australian context. Specific work focused on environmental and planning issues including planning for the improvements of appropriateness and affordability of housing (mix in type and tenure) in an attempt to produce more equitable cities through the reduction of locational disadvantage.
Dr Han currently sits on an editorial board member of the international journal of City, Culture and Society published by ELSEVIER (ISSN: 1877-9166) and has been serving for a guest editor of the International Journal of Knowledge-based Development (ISSN: 2040-4476).Teaching
Tam NguyenAssociate LecturerSchool of Architecture & DesignFaculty of Built EnvironmentUniversity of New South Wales
Tam Nguyen joined the Faculty of Built Environment in 2009 after completing degrees at UNSW and the Newcastle Institute of Technology. She has over 10 years academic experience and lectures in a number of core and elective courses at both the undergraduate & postgraduate level. She leads the 2nd year Architectural Computing design studio, and co-convenes a multi-disciplinary core course on Building Information Modelling. Her teaching activities focus on performative design, parametric processes, complex geometric modelling and BIM.
Tam is currently undertaking further research on sensate urban environments, involving ubiquitous information and communication technologies and smart sensor networks. She is working on an in-depth investigation of an agent-based, context-sensing model for the capture and recognition of dynamic situated information. This investigation will develop a set of design requirements for the wider deployment of embedded, smart sensor technology within urban environments.
Organisors
Professor Bill RandolfAssociate Dean (Research) & Director of CFRCCity Futures research Centre (CFRC)Faculty of Built EnvironmentUniversity of New South Wales
Bill Randolph joined the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales in August 2004 as Professor and Director of the City Futures Research Centre. He is also Deputy Director of the UNSW/UWS AHURI Research Centre. For the previous six years he was Director of the Urban Frontiers Program at the University of Western Sydney. At UNSW he leads a research team specializing in housing policy, urban development and metropolitan planning policy issues.
Bill has 30 years experience as a researcher on housing and urban policy issues in the academic, government, non-government and private sectors. Immediately prior to his appointment at UWS, Bill spent five years in market research and consultancy based in London, UK, with a primary focus on housing and urban research for the central and local government sectors. He had previously spent eight years as Head of Research at the National Housing Federation in London, the national peak body for non-profit affordable housing landlords, where he led the development of national research into affordable housing provision. During this time he spent a period of sabbatical leave at the Australian National University researching housing affordability and community housing in Australia. Bill has also worked as a research fellow at the Open University and the UK Department of the Environment.
Russell LoweSenior LecturerSchool of Architecture & DesignFaculty of Built EnvironmentUniversity of New South Wales
Russell Lowe lectures in Architecture at the University of New South Wales. He coordinates the first year architectural design studio and teaches in the Masters of Architecture graduation studio. Russell is a member of CAADRIA (Computer Aided Architectural Design in Asia) and has published on the use of computer gaming technology in architectural education and design.
Russell’s research centres around the repurposing of computer gaming technology to engage with uses and concepts outside of the entertainment industry. Russell has developed unique insights into opportunities for collaborative thinking that take advantage of the multiple perspectives that new media and computer game environments afford. His prize winning research on architectural space spans from Clinical Simulation to Fine Art Films which have been exhibited worldwide in fi lm festivals as well as private and public art galleries and museums.
His work with artist Federico Solmi has been shown at prestigious museums such as the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Drawing Center in New York, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Australian Center of the Moving Image, Melbourne, Victoria Memorial Museum, Calcutta, India, Contemporary Art Center of Rouboix, Palazzo Delle Arti, Naples, Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy.
Hosts & Moderators
Jim PlumeSenior Lecturer & Leader of Emerging Digital Technologies Research Cluster (EDT)School of Architecture & DesignFaculty of Built EnvironmentUniversity of New South Wales
Jim Plume’s main area of research and teaching is concerned with the use of information modelling to support all aspects of the design & management of built facilities. Recent work has focussed on extending the object-oriented paradigm of BIM to an urban context and the adoption of model server technology to manage large precinct datasets. His work also promotes the adoption of open standards to support effective multidisciplinary collaboration in the building industry.
Current research relates to the application and development of industry standard exchange formats to support all-of-life design, delivery and management of buildings through the maintenance of a full 3D model representation of the design, supported by a shared building information model hosted on an object model server. A particular application of that concept is to support collaborative design processes in the building industry. Recently coordinated a major ARC Linkage grant from July 2007 (worth $630K over 3 years) called UrbanIT. UrbanIT extended the object-based information modelling concept to an urban scale in collaboration with the NSW Dept of Planning, the City of Sydney and Landcom
Hosts & Moderators
8:309:009:10
Registration and morning coffeeWelcome from Russell LoweIntroduction from Bill Randolf
9:20
10:00
10:40
Ubiquitous City: Concept, eMegatrend, and uStrategiesProf. Sangho LeeHanbat National UniversitySouth Korea
Knowledge-city vs ubiquitous-city: knowledge-based development of u-citiesAs.Prof Tan YigitcanlarQueensland University of Technology
Morning Tea
3:40
4:10
4:40
4:50
GUC Cooperation Model and Experience for Ubiquitous CityAs. Prof. Youn Taik LeemUbiquitous City Research Cluster South Korea
u-health based on Mobile Communication TechnologiesProf. Pradeep LayAsia-Pacific Ubiquitous Healthcare Research Centre (APuHC)
Closing remarks from Jim Plume (EDT)
Drinks
DAY 1: Monday 28th November
A FUTURE CITY MODEL
OPPORTUNITY & POLICY
DRIVING INNOVATION
RESEARCH DIRECTIONS11:10
11:40
12:10
12:40
Is Your City Smart Enough? Digitally enabled cities and societies will enhance economic, social, and environmental sustainability in the urban centuryDr Steve HodgkinsonOvum
Pervasive data and the transformation of local governance: impacts and opportunities of the NBN on local government’Michelle TabetArup
Modelling the City of Sydney from the Inside-Out: Putting the Evidence in Evidence-Based PolicySteve HillierCity of Sydney Council
Lunch
1:40
2:10
2:40
3:10
Driving Eco-Sustainability through ICT InnovationFrancis RheeSamsung SDSSouth Korea
A technology provider’s view on the future of our citiesDr Dean EconomouNational ICT Australia Ltd (NICTA)
Ubiquitous Broadband and its role in Ubiquitous InnovationPaul McCarthyAustralian Centre for Broadband Innovation CSIRO ICT Centre
Afternoon Tea
9:10
10:40
GOVERNANCE: INVESTORS VS CITIZENSWho pays for this technology? Is it the private sector, or the community? If it’s the private sector, do they continue to own it and all of the data connected with it?Who regulates the use of this technology? To what extent should citizens be involved in the decision-making processes? Who is managing this? And who is making sure citizens are protected? At what level of government would these policies need to be determined?
ECONOMIC & PRIVACY IMPLICATIONSInvestors will inevitably look to profit through any cost savings or market opportunity. But how much profit is appropriate for them to take? Should the community, the individual, share in this windfall? Who is earning the greatest profit from it? Can citizens challenge it if they don’t like it?
Can you have a private u-city? How do we maintain data security? How do you find a balance between enabling productive uses of that data, and maintaining the privacy and/or the benefit for the public? Is it really going to make places better to live, or create some kind of Big Brother apparatus?
Panel members:Prof. Sangho LeeHanbat National University
Dr Steve HodgkinsonOvum
Taehee KangSamsung SDS
Steve HillierCity of Sydney
Michelle TabetArup
Moderator: Russell Lowe
Morning Tea
8:309:00
Registration and morning coffeeIntroduction from Russell Lowe
DAY 2: Tuesday 29th November
DISCUSSION PANEL 1
11:10
12:40
12:50
TECHNICAL VIABILITY AND RISKDeploying technology on a city scale requires a large, integrated communication system. Are these systems capable of dealing with heterogeneous devices collecting different types of data, each of them holding individual vendor requirements and personal citizen data? What would happen in situations like poor signal quality? What are the key benefits to the citizens? How would the benefits be conveyed to the citizens to stimulate technology acceptance? Will the benefits balance the costs and maintenance?
UBIQUITOUS LIVING: COMMUNITY & SOCIAL IMPLICATIONSWill the u-City create a more connected community? How will it effect social/behavioural change? Will this be welcomed, or will it divide communities? How can sustainable community development and quality of life be ensured?
HEALTH, INCLUSION & ASSISTED LIVINGHaving a ubiquitous healthcare system raises several challenges regarding energy, size, cost, mobility, connectivity, coverage and usage. How will the secure delivery of medical quality data be maintained? Is this reliable? What are the implications of having medical data on the cloud?Can ubiquitous technology offer assistance while maintaining independence and autonomy to senoir citizens and people with diabilities? What legal, ethical and regulatory issues need to be addressed? What kind of knowledge and familiarity do people need to use the technologies?
Panel members:As.Prof Tan YigitcanlarQueensland University of Technology
Dr Dean EconomouNational ICT Australia Ltd (NICTA)
Francis RheeSamsung SDS
Prof. Pradeep LayAsia-Pacific Ubiquitous Healthcare Research Centre (APuHC)
Paul McCarthyCSIRO
Moderator: Russell Lowe
Closing remarks from Bill Randolf
Lunch
DISCUSSION PANEL 2
Register your interest in attending the 2011 International Symposium + Workshop on u-Cities at:
www.u-cities.org
CONTACT ORGANISORSHoon HanSchool of Construction, Planning & PropertyFaculty of Built Environment University of New South WalesEmail: [email protected]
INFORMATIONGeneral Enquiries:Email: [email protected]
Tam NguyenSchool of Architecture & DesignFaculty of Built Environment University of New South WalesEmail: [email protected]
VENUE DETAILSDesign @ Eng StudioSchool of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering building ( J17)Anzac Parade, University of New South WalesSydney NSW Australia
