The PLATIAL’21 conference starts next Wed (or Thursday NZ time). We will be presenting a paper on place preference in New Zealand, exploring the question of what makes a place a favourite place:
My Favourite Place – Exploring Reasons For Place Preference
Johanna Richardson (Massey University, NZ), Kristin Stock (Massey University, NZ)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5767178
Conference Summary
People “live” and constitute places every day through recurrent practices and experience. Both agency and experience are rooted in cultural embeddings that vary across different world regions. The complexity this entails requires researchers to investigate the concept of place through a variety of cultural lenses. The formal representation of place in GIScience is no exception and can only be successfully addressed if we consider geographical, psychological, linguistical, sociological, cognitive, and other perspectives taking account of cultural specificities.
How can we represent not only place but also its cultural aspects? How can we be more inclusive when conceptualising place to also include marginalised communities? Is it even possible to find structures of place that extend beyond cultural anchoring? These and other related questions will be addressed at PLATIAL’21 and have led us to this year’s motto “Places across cultures”. We hope to bring together place-based researchers from different disciplines to discuss the current state of theoretical and applied platial research.
List of Papers
From “Hood” to Good – Dealing with Stigmatizing Spatial Representations in Everyday Life
Cosima Werner (Kiel University, DE), Tilman Schwarze (University of Glasgow, UK)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5767182
(Un)Represented Places – A Case Study of Two Sports Venues in Gelsenkirchen and Dortmund
Franz-Benjamin Mocnik (University of Twente, NL), Laura Kühl (Heidelberg University, DE)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5767180
Reclaiming Place Through Marginalized Narratives: A Critical Geography and Humanistic Approach to the Cartographic Visualization of Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Ceren Dolma (University of Twente, NL)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5767184
My Favourite Place – Exploring Reasons For Place Preference
Johanna Richardson (Massey University, NZ), Kristin Stock (Massey University, NZ)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5767178
Visualising Fuzzy Boundaries of City Neighbourhoods
Milana Glebova (University of Twente, NL)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5767186
On the Integration of Place and Urban Morphology
Liudmila Slivinskaya (TU Dortmund University, DE), René Westerholt (TU Dortmund University, DE)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5767192
Leveraging Place Reviews to Identify the Affects of COVID-19 on Canadian Tourism
Grant McKenzie (McGill University, CA)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5767190
Evaluating Public Consultation in Urban Planning via Neural Language Models and Topic Modelling
Christian Caton (University of Warwick, UK), Gabriele Pergola (University of Warwick, UK), Tessio Novack (University of Warwick, UK), Yulan He (University of Warwick, UK)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5767188
Characteristics of Evocative Places and Emotions Felt at These Places: A Multi-Cultural Comparison
Alenka Poplin (Iowa State University, US)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5767176
Mapping Unsafe Places and Emotions: Study of Ames, Iowa
Thomas Kosacz (Iowa State University, US), Max Gula (Iowa State University, US), Alenka Poplin (Iowa State University, US), Tim Tobin (Iowa State University, US), Fatema Nourin (Iowa State University, US)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5767174
Massey Geoinformatics Collaboratory 