This is the third of three calls for papers from the Data Stories team for the next International Geographical Congress (IGC) in 2024.
IGC 2024 is an international conference bringing together geographers from all fields, from the social sciences to physical geography and beyond. The theme for 2024 is “Celebrating a world of difference”, for which 44 different commissions are proposing sessions. The IGC 2024 will be held in Dublin from August 24 to 30: https://igc2024dublin.org/
CFP Critical perspectives on planning and housing data
Dr. Carla Maria Kayanan (chair), Dr. Juliette Davret, Prof. Rob Kitchin, Dr. Sophia Maalsen, Dr. Samuel Mutter and Dr. Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn are organising a session on critical perspectives on planning and housing data.
Session abstract: Planning and property data are the key evidence base for how cities are understood, planned and developed (e.g., Kitchin, 2021; Loukissas, 2019; Marquarts, 2026; Meng and DiSalvo, 2018). The increased use of data in urban planning, housing management and development financialisation has led to profound shifts in how we understand, design, and manage our built environments. However, this transition towards a more data-driven approach raises a series of critical questions concerning who controls the data infrastructures, the generation, analysis, and interpretation of data, and data-driven decision-making, as well as issues of spatial justice, privacy, representativeness and data ethics.
This session aims to examine the most crucial and contentious aspects of data politics and power in urban planning and housing management. We seek contributions that explore critical perspectives on planning and housing data, including but not limited to the following topics:
- Data infrastructures of planning and housing;
- Data utilization in addressing housing crises;
- Data capitalism and housing financialisation
- Biases and inequalities in housing and urban data;
- Activist uses of planning and housing data
- The impact of automation and artificial intelligence on urban planning;
- Ethical and privacy issues in planning and housing data practices;
- Visual narrative and other representations of data in urban planning;
- Historical perspectives on data in urban planning and housing;
- Challenges of public participation in a data-centric context;
- New methodologies for critically analysing data in urban planning.
The deadline for abstract submission is on 12th January 2024. Abstract submissions must be made via the conference website. Details on submitting can be found here: https://igc2024dublin.org/call-for-abstracts/
The Congress Commission for this abstract is C.42 Urban Commission. Ensure you make clear you are submitting for this session when submitting your abstract.
Please direct questions to session chair: Carla.Kayanan@mu.ie
See our two other blog posts for calls for papers for the pre-event and the IGC conference.
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