International Conference on Public Transport and Urban Citizenship
Capital Space and Digital Dublin Exhibitions
An architectural exhibition and digital display event, which ran in parallel to the conference showcased options for the redevelopment of the centre of the city:
Capital Space - Student Urban Design Workshop
Over two days, architectural, planning and landscape students were asked to analyse an existing area, including College Green using mapping, drawings, photos and other media, and then prepare innovative, highly graphical, quick proposals for a potentially newly pedestrianised College Green, after the installation of LUAS tram lines.
The intention was to illustrate sketch stage impressions of different ideas for how the place could be transformed. This Workshop was held with the support of Urban Design Ireland and the UCD Urban Design Masters Programme:
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Urban Design Ireland (UDI) are a group of urban designers who have formed an unincorporated association in order to provide a forum for Irish based professionals and others interested in accessing and sharing information on urban design. The intention is to provide an accessible, friendly, cross-disciplinary forum for the exchange and communication of urban design knowledge and experiences in Ireland.
- The UCD School of Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering offers an interdisciplinary post-professional Masters programme in Urban Design, entitled MSc Urban Design. It is available to graduates of Architecture, Planning and other professions, such as Landscape Architecture and Engineering, with suitable academic qualifications and professional experience. The programme seeks to develop and improve the students' range of theoretical, research and practical skills in Urban Design.
Digital Dublin Interactive Simulation
The Graphics Vision and Visualisation group (GV2) at Trinity College Dublin is an internationally active group dedicated to carrying out leading edge research in computer graphics, computer vision and all aspects of visual computing. The group has developed a large-scaled interactive model of Dublin city with crowds of humans simulated in real-time. The model of the city has been extended to include the new proposed Luas track that connects the Green and Red line, and the pedestrianisation of College Green. Conference delegates were able to view the simulations of this new planning scenario on 50 inch plasma screen in the conference foyer.