03:00 – 04:30 Guest Lecture 1// ESRI CityEngine
[Mark Ho, ESRI Technical Solution Specialist]
http://www.esri.com/software/cityengine
Esri® CityEngine® software is a new tool for 3D city modeling in urban planning, rchitecture, simulation, game development, and film production. CityEngine delivers a full uite of industry-leading procedural tools to aggregate geospatial data, lay out and edit street networks, generate and modify buildings, create 3D road profiles and distribute street furniture, control the shape of the skyline, and analyze urban planning projects.
04:30 – 05:30 Guest Lecture 2// Ariadne’s Thread
[Geoff Christou, University of Waterloo MArch 2013]
http://geoffchristou.com/index.php?/projects/ariadnes-thread/
Footprints in the snow and the weathered stone steps of buildings hint at the shape of threads, but the coming of spring and the hardness of stone limit our observations. The Global Positioning System (GPS) now provides us a lens to see the path that individuals, families, and communities take in space-time. When millions of GPS signatures are collected from hundreds of individuals, heritable patterns emerge that embody particular individual’s ideas and practices, as well as those of the society and the environment in which they operate. Besides providing a tool to test assumptions about how space is used, Geoff argues in his thesis that by allowing us to glimpse a terra incognita, mapping worldlines also provides a unique perspective on our spatial relationship to one another.
