A number of themes are listed for each session as a reminder of previous areas of interest and today's hot topics in geographical and spatial research.


1 – TERRITORIAL MODELLING STATE-OF-ART AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

  • Territorial modelling and urban planning
  • Spatial modelling
  • Complexity and models
  • Thermodynamics and planning
  • Agent-based models and planning


2 – ENVIRONMENT, PLANNING AND DESIGN: THE ROLE OF MODELLING

  • Health and well-being
  • Risk management
  • Sponge cities
  • Climate change: from mitigation toadaptation
  • Energy
  • Sustainable mobility
  • Ecosystem and landscape services for urban and regional planning
  • Green and blue infrastructure, ecological networks and ecological corridors
  • Integration of conservation measures into plans and regulations related to protected areas
  • Nature-based solutions and planning
  • Geodesign
  • Resilience-oriented models
  • Qgis


3 – RURAL LANDSCAPES AND WELL-BEING: TOWARDS A POLICY-MAKING PERSPECTIVE

  • Rural landscapes as ecosystem services delivery points: health, liveability, and tranquillity areas
  • Rural landscapes: measures and bionomics
  • Infrastructures and settlements: de-fragmenting rural landscapes
  • Remote sensing and modeling: risk evaluation, environmental management, and monitoring
  • Rural development and landscape analysis and planning


4 – SMART PLANNING

  • New urban planning for the smart city
  • Smart mobility
  • BIM and urban planning
  • Smart planning vs Urban entropy
  • Fab-Labs
  • Urban regeneration and digital social innovations


5 – MAINTENANCE, UPGRADING AND INNOVATION IN CULTURAL HERITAGE

  • ICT for the protection and use
  • Innovative promotion and fruition
  • Smart tourism


6 – URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNERS: WHO IS THE CLIENT? THE PLANNERS JOBS IN A NEW MILLENNIUM

  • Urban planning
  • Landscape planning
  • Environmental planning


7 – BIG DATA AND DATA MINING

  • Data visualization
  • Knowledge from information
  • Social media
  • Behaviour & lifestyle
  • Open data
  • Data science
  • Ontologies
  • Sentiment analysis


8 – ICT & MODELS: PLANNING FOR COMMUNITIES

  • SDSS - Spatial Decision Support Systems
  • PSS – Planning Support Systems
  • VGI - Volunteered Geographic Information
  • VR / AR - Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
  • (Spatial) Multicriteria Analsyis/Evaluation
  • Gaming
  • Geospatial modelling
  • Spatial cognition models in planning


Special session: DID WE LEARN LESSONS? FOLLOWING THE PATHS OF GIOVANNI RABINO

Special session: ECOSYSTEM-BASED AND PERFORMANCE-BASED APPROACHES FOR SPATIAL PLANNING

Special session: GEODESIGN