Each day of the GeoSpatial Summer School 2022 on GIScience & GeoParticipation (G3S GeoPart 2022) will be supervised by renowned experts from the field of GIScience and selected topic. So far, invitation was accepted by Georg Gartner (TU Wien), Kirsi Forss (Mapita Oy/Maptionnaire), and we are currently negotiating other experts from the field.
Georg Gartner
Georg Gartner is a Professor for Cartography and Geo-Mediatechniques at the Research Group of Cartography at the Vienna University of Technology (Austria). Among other functions, he served as president of the International Cartographic Association (2011-2015). He is (co)author of almost 700 publications including scientific papers, books, conference papers, or invited talks on conferences. His main research interests lie in the role of modern cartography and applying LBS and interactivity to this role.
Kirsi Forss
Kirsi Forss (M. Sc., University of Helsinki) is a geographer and a PPGIS (Public Participation GIS) enthusiast. As the Lead Consultant at Mapita, the company behind the community engagement platform Maptionnaire, her passion is to help cities, research institutes and many others to engage communities with map-based online tools.
Jiří Pánek
Jiří Pánek is associated professor at Palacký University in Olomouc delaing with (geo)participation for more than 10 years. He has co-developed a platform for participatory mapping called „EmotionalMaps“ that is widely used in Czechia as well as in other countries.
Nora Fagerholm
Nora Fagerholm is Adjunct professor (Docent) in participatory landscape research at the University of Turku, Department of Geography and Geology. Her research interest links to a holistic understanding about the human-nature interactions in spatial context and covers fields of human geography and landscape research. Her research has increased understanding about the role of socio-cultural values for transdisciplinary planning and management of sustainable societies. She has specific expertise in applying GIS for participation through public participation GIS (PPGIS)/participatory GIS (PGIS) approaches. Currently, she is an Academy Research Fellow and principal investigator of the Academy of Finland funded research project Wellbeing benefits of urban green infrastructure mapped through participation and 3D virtual landscapes (GreenPlace 2019-24).
Jonathan Huck
Jonathan Huck is a is a Lecturer in Geographical Information Science at the University of Manchester (UK). He is chair of the Mapping: Culture and GIScience Research Group and GIS Lead for the interdisciplinary Digital Humanities group at the University of Manchester. His general areas of research interest include the representation of vague geographical entities in GIS, new approaches to participatory mapping, and the application of new technologies to geographical data collection. He also maintains the freely available Map-Me platform for participatory mapping and creation of online surveys for the collection of vague spatial data.