Istanbul Technical University EELISA Summer School on Platform Urbanism

In this 4 ECTS EELISA Summer School, which includes 4 lectures, 2 guest speakers, 2 lab sessions, 1 site visit, 1 case study, 1 hands-on exercise, and 1 teamwork activity, participants will be introduced to the world of digital platforms in an international and multidisciplinary environment to find answers to the following questions:

• What is Platform Urbanism?
• How do digital platforms analyze and visualize big urban data?
• How do digital platforms use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to read the city and intervene in urban space?
• How does the rise of platforms affect urban socio-spatial practices and services?
• What implications do datafication, platformisation, and algorithms have for everyday urban life?

The Summer School offers a face-to-face learning environment for those who want to develop an innovative digital platform idea, turn it into an R&D project, formulate a commercialization strategy, and create a business model. The Summer School is uniquely designed based on the Innovative Learning Stations Model, which incorporates Active Learning, Crowdsource Learning, Co-Creating Learning, and Life-Long Learning methods.

Applications are open to MSc. / PhD students from the EELISA universities, Early Career Researchers (maximum of 10 years after obtaining their PhD) and Professionals from all over the world.

Through this 3-day summer school, participants will:

•  Understand the changing nature and logic of urban experience in the digital age from a sustainability perspective
•  Be able to analyse how digital platforms read the city and interfere with urban space
•  Evaluate the positive and negative reflections (risks and opportunities) of digitalization and automation on the city, society, nature, and economy
•  Explore how to co-create an inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable society through digital platforms
•  Be able to develop an innovative digital platform idea, turn it into an R&D project, formulate a commercialization strategy, and create a business model
•  Experience Istanbul and become a member of ITU (Bee)

The working language of the Summer School is English.

 

WHEN

August 5th & 7th, 2024

WHERE

Onsite, at Istanbul Techncal Unversty Ayazaga Campus

APPLICATION DEADLINE

June 28, 2024

REGISTRATION FORM

https://data.beehub.itu.edu.tr/app/form?id=LCyn8g