Introducing the Social Evolution Forum

Introducing Social Development Environments

A Social Development Environment is a real-time collaborative programming tool with integrated social networking features. This emerging technology is important for distributed software developers, e-learning and technical communities. Social Development Environments advance the state of the art for collaboration, coordination, and project management in software development. Social Development ...

Introducing Social Semiotics

Introducing the Sky and the Social Eye

We introduce the Sky and the Social Eye task which was run for the first time as a Grand Challenge at the 2016 ACM Multimedia Conference and as a Task Force at the 2016 MediaEval Workshop. Participants combined satellite images with social media to create a richer user experience. For the first year, the task was exploratory allowing participants to produce their own system without traditional ...

The Evolution of Urban Zoning from Conventional to Form Based Codes; Introducing Non-Euclidean Zoning Techniqueschniques

Zoning has always been one of the basic tools of land use control available. Zoning is the regulation and restriction of land uses according to a predetermined plan. This paper will present a look at conventional zoning, its origins, the evolution of the zoning, and the scope of zoning types. Regardless of the varieties, most zoning codes can be classified into at least one of the following bro...

The Mumbai World Social Forum: Alternative Futures from the Grassroots

I recall an Indian proverb saying that, as all rivers find the same ocean, so too do all paths reach the same source. Perhaps this is a fitting analogy for the World Social Forum (WSF), the fourth of which was recently held in Mumbai India from the 16th 21st of January. For as each of the over 130,000 droplets arrived by plane, train, rickshaw, bicycle and by foot, they began self-organising in...