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Workshop: October 2017

Beirut Arab University

Workshop about ‘Digital mapping of Landscapes of Urban revolt’ is one of the events of the seminar of ‘‎Revolt in the 'Square': Spatial Modelling of Urban Stability‎ to Mapping Urban Unrest in Beirut Public Squares’ at Beirut Arab University in cooperation with Queens University Belfast and University of Leeds in UK.

9:00 to 9:30

Introduction: Understanding general principles of pedestrian movements and crowding

9:30 to 10:10

Technical lecture (GPS in GIS): Use the GPS data from the site visit to monitor various movements of the participants (location/ time) + discuss their movement and gathering experience, individual and group data

10:10 to 10:30 Break

10:30 to 12:00

- Discussion and applications (working groups): Each group of participants select one of the events related to the workshop interest and start digitally document the events (location/s, main entry points/ main streets used/ holding a flag or not/ path of movements in the square/ direction of standing/ other related issues)

12:00 to 13:00 Lunch break

 

13:00 to 13:40

- Predicting movements: evacuation scenarios; Potential to-movements scenarios

13:40 to 14:00 Break

 

14:00 to 15:00

Discussion and Application (working groups)

- Mapping all the participants’ information on one map.

 

15:00 to 15:15 Break

 

15:15 to 16:00 Closing ceremony

- Brief conclusion by RIS team/ BAU Team

- Distribution of certificates to the participants

- At the Faculty auditorium in the main buildings

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