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to Stella Geyer for her bachelor thesis!
Advisors: A. Poplin and B. Reinart

 to Clara Thomas - she succesfully completed her BA in Urban Planning!

Eszter and Alenka presented the interactive participatory planning game "Po-up-Pest" at the CORP conference in Rome May 2013 (www.corp.at). The game, developed by Eszter Tóth, aims to encourage children to participate in urban planning processes. It is placed in Budapest and has been already played several times with young people of different age groups. The article summarizes the goals of the game and the first empirical results gained in the test-playing exercises.

Alenka just returned from Harvard and MIT, where she presented our research on digital games and civic engagement. She worked with the Ash Centre for Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School and became a Democracy Fellow (2013) in the team led by Prof. Archon Fung. On March 15^th she presented our research on playful public participation in urban planning to the group of democracy fellows led by Prof. Fung. The title of her presentation was: Serious Games for Urban Planning: Example of the B3 Game. Thank you all for the valuable comments on the presentation and thank you too Prof. Archon Fung and your team for the great hospitality. On March 20^th she presented our research at the MIT Urban Planning, MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program, The Education Arcade MIT in the group of Prof. Eric Klopfer (http://education.mit.edu/people/eric-klopfer) and Dr. Scot Osterweil (http://education.mit.edu/people/scot-osterweil). The title of her presentation was: Digital Serious Games for Civic Engagement in Urban Planning: Example of the B3 Game. Prof. Klopfer presented the activities of his research group and their internal organizational structure. Very interesting! Thank you! Here are some impressions from this event.

Alenka also had several very inspiring discussions with Dr. Konstantin Mitgutsch (MIT Game Lab). He is one of the main organizers of the 7th Vienna Games Conference - FROG13  in Vienna.  Alenka joined the program committee of this conference. Follow us on the website: http://bupp.at/en/service-en/frog/frog-2013/.

During her stay at the Harvard Kennedy School she also met Prof. Eric Gordon, with whom she has similar research interests. He is managing the Engagement Game Lab (http://engagementgamelab.org/ ) and has been successful in promoting games and game-based participation in urban planning. She discussed the use of different tools for public participation with Prof. Ann Forsyth, Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Masters in Urban Planning Degree Program at Harvard Graduate School of Design (http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/people/ann-forsyth.html).

To ease the data search in the project, support the data sharing among the project partners, as well as to increase the awareness of our research results to the potential users, we provide the metadata catalogue services Medais for the Klimzug-Nord project. This service supports easy data search function and detailed description of geo-referenced data. Recently we finished the new version of this platform.

Getting high quality metadata for our service is essential to make the service more powerful. For this purpose,we sincerely invite you to the Klimzug-Nord metadata collection workshop on 31.01.2013 at the HafenCity University Hamburg. It will be hold from10:30-16:30 in the Room A111 at the City Nord Campus (Hebebrandstrasse 1, D-22297). The work shop includes the following content:

· Introduction to the data exchange platform Medais: benefits and functions

· Medais tutorial and user test

· Klimzug-Nord metadata collection

.... to Tony Haertling for the completion of his bachelor thesis "Hamburg Heights: Skyscrapers in a multicultural district".

The latest release of ArcGIS for AutoCAD, Esri's free AutoCAD plug-in, improves the ability to exchange data and information between the ArcGIS and AutoCAD platforms. ArcGIS for AutoCAD users with read/write access to ArcGIS for Server feature services can now edit geodatabases through AutoCAD. This enables easier data dissemination between CAD and GIS users across the enterprise, reduces the duplication of work, and increases efficiency.

CAD professionals can use the free downloadable application to add, create, and edit GIS data within AutoCAD drawings. For example, users can add maps and map services from enterprise or cloud servers, such as ArcGIS Online, to their drawings, giving the design a geographic context and a common operating picture for the organization.

"ArcGIS for AutoCAD is the interface to the ArcGIS system and all of its rich data content, sharing, and data management," states Esri CAD product manager Don Kuehne. "The possibilities presented by the combination of AutoCAD and ArcGIS services to automate editing and data maintenance workflows are going to result in an exponential leap in value for those who take advantage of them."

The new release also includes access to image services and a geolocation service for navigating within an AutoCAD drawing. AutoCAD 2010/2011/2012 (32-bit and 64-bit) systems are supported. To learn more about or to download the new release of ArcGIS for AutoCAD, visit esri.com/autocadapp.

Originalquelle: spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2012/aug/23/news4.html

Im Rahmen eines M1-Studienprojekts an der HafenCity Universität Hamburg beschäftigte sich die Projektgruppe mit den Themen „Online Partizipation“ und „Studierendenwohnheime in der Planung“. Im Verlauf eines Semesters haben Sie sich diesen Themen auf unterschiedliche Weise angenähert und als Konzept ein Tool zur spielerischen Beteiligung entwickelt. Weitere Informationen können unter http://www.sowillichleben.com/ abegrufen werden.

We successfully completed the INFOPlan summer school in collaboration with the University of Cagliari and the University Collage Dublin. Thank you to all for the unforgettable moments! See you at our next summer school!

Alenka attended the Workshop on the Socioeconomic Benefits from the Use of Earth Observations, 11-13 July 2011, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy. The workshop was organised by JRC European Comission, NASA, IIASA and IEEE.

The DigitalCity Research Group invites you to a very interesting talk on the value of geo data sharing.

The Titel of the talk is "Free Data and Free GIS : Some Observations from Minnesota", presented by Francis Harvey (University of Minnesota).

Further information.

We successfully held our workshop! Thank you to the participants for all interesting contributions and discussions.

The presentation are available on the workshop website www.geo-value.net.

Beate Weninger attended the PhD colloquium!
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