3rd International Academic Conference: Places and Technologies 2016

3rd International Academic Conference
Places and Technologies 2016
Keeping up with technologies to create cognitive city by highlighting its safety, sustainability, efficiency, imeagebility and liveability
14th & 15th April 2016.
University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture

Conference program: Places and Technologies 2016

The conference examines the formation and presentation of knowledge on technologies and the environment, as well as ethical considerations and potential risks, developing solutions, expertise and discussions with respect to one of the future development concepts – cognitive city.

The stated objective point to the necessity of a multidisciplinary approach to this matter, identification and establishment of relationships between issues of technological development, environmental protection and social change. Consequently the conference program and research are based on the knowledge of several academic disciplines: engineering and technical sciences, cognitive sciences, humanities and social sciences.

The main tasks of the conference are defined in order to discuss the issues related to:
– the future of society and places,
– creation of cognitive city, its facilities and infrastructure in line with needs of inhabitants,
– development of institutions and regulations with an aim of creating safe, sustainable, efficient, imageable and liveable environment, and
– creation of favourable conditions for the advancement of innovation and business to achieve a good quality of life.

Having in mind the conference goals and objectives, we wish to research and understand from the critical aspect the importance and role of technology in design and creation of cognitive city through:
– Technological perspective;
– Built environment perspective;
– Government perspective;
– Social perspective;
– Economic perspective;
– Security perspective, etc.

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Andreas Luible
Professor at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland
Dr Carlos Smaniotto Costa
Lusofona University, Lisabon, Portugal
Saša Begović
3LHD studio, Zagreb, Croatia
Dr Aleksandar Kadijević
University of Belgrade – Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade, Serbia