The conference gravitates towards three reflections: movement, participation and
risk.
- Movement Cartography - This deals with the necessity to think about how to represent movement using topological
metrics. Far from considering its most obvious and common meaning - i.e. dislocation of people and things - movement is intended
in its highest meaning - i.e. as a generating source, energy - able to assume a multiplicity of configurations which
cannot be reduced to a static form but can be defined in its own dynamism.
- Participatory Mapping - Our aim is to analyse the role of participatory mapping in pointing out identity values
of a specific landscape as a stake in negotiation processes. At the same time we want to investigate the development and the diffusion
of Geographic Information Technologies thanks to the interactive processes promoted by the web - such as Public and Participatory
GIS, and the last generation of «WikiGIS». They both promote the collective processes of thinking and decision making and they are
also understandable by non-expert people who, theref, can be involved.
- Cartography of risk – This issue concerns decision support systems (DSS) that are able to communicate risks and
face emergencies in extremely difficult conditions. The aim is to face the subject of including maps inside these systems as a
symbolic operator able to intervene actively in the decision making process characterized by urgency and criticality.
Computerization and the World Wide Web have undermined the assumptions involved in the creation of maps. This makes us wonder
whether we are in front of a crisis of the "cartographic reason" or, rather, in front of a metric metamorphosis, which does not
concern its iconizing result. As a matter of fact, the cartographic scenario shows a fragmentation of agencies producing maps and this
discourages any claim to intervene technically by coding a multiplicity of languages or existing systems of construction. So, in order
to think about the communicative results of multimedia maps, we consider of the utmost importance to define them from a semiotic point
of view as hybrid systems.
We want to focus on globalisation that has radically changed the areas of communication, ideas, and scientific and artistic culture,
making us re-think and re-conceptualise the idea of space and how it can be transmitted cartographically. As a matter of fact, maps are
intended to represent types of space – i.e. space formed by net - like assets - which require metrics able to point out a dimension of
flexibility and to reproduce not only the dynamics of exchange, but also the pluralism of individuals involved and the time factor in
the problem-solving of risky situations.
In these contexts, maps are called to play a role in the management of complex realities, like urban ones. There is a need of
cartographic instruments able to represent mobile citizens and inhabitants whose existences are based on movement. These city-users
become a complex of individuals which, according to their own interests, need to be involved in urban management practices and in
decision making processes through different kinds of governance practices.
Programme and Schedule
Thursday, April 23rd
First session - Cartographic Challenges
- 9.00 a.m. Conference opening and welcome speech
ROBERTO BRUNI, Mayor of Bergamo
BRUNO CARTOSIO, Dean of the Facolty of Foreign Languages, University of Bergamo
GEORG GARTNER, Vice-President of the International Cartographic Association
FRANCO SALVATORI, President of the Italian Geographical Society
ALBERTO DI BLASI, President of the Association of Italian Geographers
- 9.30 – 11.30 a.m. THEORY AND APPLICATION - coordinator: EMANUELA CASTI
JACQUES LÉVY, Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne A Cartographic Turn? Brigdging the Gap Between Space-Thinking and Space-Mapping
STÉPHANE ROCHE, Laval University The wikification of participatory mapping processes
HORST KREMERS, CODATA-Germany Situation and its change
- 11.30 – 11.45 a.m. Break
- 11.45 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. Debate
With the contribution of: GIUSEPPE DEMATTEIS, Polytechnic of Turin; FRANCO FARINELLI, University of Bologna; MICHEL LUSSAULT, Normal
Superior School of LSH of Lyon, GIORGIO MANGANI, Polytechnic University of the Marche
Thursday, April 23rd
Second Session - Exposition and workshops opening
- 2.30 – 4.00 p.m.
Multimedia products:
L. HURNI, M. KUNZ, C. LIENERT, Institute for Cartography, ETH Zürich
MARINA ZAMBIANCHI, Municipality of Bergamo
F. BURINI, A. GHISALBERTI, Diathesis Cartographic Laboratory, University of Bergamo
Poster:
IGM Military Geographical Institute, Florence
SEA Consulting Engineering Geology, CESRAM, CNR-IRPI, Turin
West Virginia State GIS Technical Center, West Virginia University
Chôros Laboratory, EPFL – Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne
Diathesis Cartographic Laboratory, University of Bergamo
- 4.00 – 6.30 p.m. WORKSHOPS IN PLENARY SESSION
Invited coordinators end speakers:
THIERRY JOLIVEAU, University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne
ALBERTO SUSINI, Geneva Labor Inspectorate
ANDRÉ OUREDNIK, Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne
Debate
Friday, April 24th
Third Session - Parallel workshops
1. MOVEMENT CARTOGRAPHY
coordinator: ALESSANDRA GHISALBERTI
- 9.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. - promoter JACQUES LÉVY
interventions:
ALBERTA BIANCHIN, University IUAV of Venice
LUISA CARBONE, Italian Geographical Society
ALESSANDRA GHISALBERTI, University of Bergamo
11.00 - 11.15 a.m. Break
GIANCARLO MACCHI, University of Siena
EDOARDO BORIA, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
ANDREA MASTURZO, Military Geographical Institute, Florence
2. PARTICIPATORY MAPPING
2a. Planning Cartography - coordinator: FEDERICA BURINI
- 9.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. - promoter STÉPHANE ROCHE
interventions:
FRANCA BALLETTI, University of Genoa
RICCARDO PALMA, CHIARA OCCELLI, Polytechnic of Turin
MAGALI NONJON, ROMAIN LIAGRE, University of Avignon and University of Artois
PIERRE MAUREL, YANN BERTACCHINI, CEMAGREF and University of Toulon Var
11.00 - 11.15 a.m. Break
SYLVIE LARDON, INRA-AgroParisTech-ENGREF, UMR-Métafort, Clermont-Ferrand
ALBERTUS HADI PRAMONO, University of Hawaii
PHILIPPE FORET, University of Nottingham
LUCIA ZANETTICHINI, Polytechnic of Milan
FEDERICA BURINI, University of Bergamo
2b. Web Participation - coordinator: THIERRY JOLIVEAU
- 9.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. - promoter STÉPHANE ROCHE
interventions:
FRANCESCO FASSI, FEDERICO PRANDI, Polytechnic of Milan
TAMARA BELLONE, ANTONIO CITTADINO, FRANCESCO FIERMONTE, Polytechnic and University of Turin
FRED McGARRY, Centre for Community Mapping, Waterloo
11.00 - 11.15 a.m. Break
GEORG GARTNER, MARKUS JOBST, Technical University Wien and Austrian Federal Agency for Metrology and Surveying
3. CARTOGRAPHY OF RISK
coordinators: ALBERTO SUSINI, PIERO BOCCARDO
- 9.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. - promoter HORST KREMERS
interventions:
PIERO BOCCARDO, Polytechnic of Turin
WALTER DAVID, Italian Ministry of Defence
A. OLIVEIRA TAVARES, J. M. MENDES, SUSANA FREIRA, University of Coimbra
GREG ELMES, West Virginia University
11.00 - 11.15 a.m. Break
LORENZ HURNI, MELANIE KUNZ, CHRISTOPHE LIENERT, Institute for Cartography, ETH Zürich
ELIANE PROPECK-ZIMMERMANN, THIERRY SAINT-GERAND, University of Caen Basse Normandie
OLIVIER LOMPO, University of Bergamo
MARION PENELAS, EDUARDO CAMACHO-HUEBNER, VALÉRIE NOVEMBER, Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne
Friday, April 24th
Fourth Session - The Stakes
- 2.30 – 6.30 p.m. Closing speech by ALBERTO CASTOLDI, Rector of the University of Bergamo
ROUND TABLE coordinator: GIUSEPPE DEMATTEIS, Polytechnic of Turin
interventions: FRANCO FARINELLI, University of Bologna; JACQUES LÉVY, Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne; MICHEL LUSSAULT,ù
Normal Superior School of Letters and Human Sciences of Lyon; and the workshop reporters
Contributions to the debate: STÉPHANE ROCHE, HORST KREMERS
Conclusions: Perspectives in progress, EMANUELA CASTI, University of Bergamo
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