Notes on contributors
Introduction
Ülar Mark, Rein Ahas
in the context of Media
Media in Reasoning Urban Space
Maarja Lõhmus
Jointspace.ee
Margus Tiru, Kaja Pae, Erki Saluveer
Real-Time Space Management
Andres Sevtsuk
Technical and Methodological Aspects of Using Mobile Positioning in Geographical Studies
Rein Ahas, Jaak Laineste
Precision and Spatial Accuracy of Mobile Positioning in Estonian GSM Networks
Anto Aasa
in the context of Social Diversity
The City and Memory
Jan Kaus
Identity Shifts in Space
A Vocabulary for Turning Inside Out
Kaja Pae
Joint Space - Meeting Myself Out There
Yoko Alender
Activity Spaces of Residents of New Suburban Settlements in the Tallinn Metropolitan Area
Rein Ahas, Anto Aasa, Siiri Silm, Olle Järv
Mobile Positioning as a New Tool for Researching Tourism
Anto Aasa
in the context of Multifaceted Urban Space
From (Re)presentation to (Re-)presence
Toomas Tammis
Creation and Planning of Space
Who Creates The City?
Ülar Mark
Personalizing Urban Planning by Digital Means
Ülar Mark
Mobile Positioning as the Engine for Developing Tourism
Antti Roose
Minu inimesed My People
Jarek Kasar
Case Studies
Estonian Academy of Arts Study: Social Networks
Yoko Alender, Raul Kalvo
Interviews with the Participants in the Estonian Academy of Arts Movement Study
Kaja Pae
Location-Aware Participatory Tools: Bicycle Route Voting in Tartu
Siiri Silm, Pille Rossi
Interview with a Participant in the Bicycle Route Voting
Kaja Pae
The Ecological Footprint of the Inhabitants of New Residential Areas in the Tallinn Metropolitan Area
Age Poom
Foreign Tourists in Tartu: A Mobile Positioning Case Study
Rein Ahas, Anto Aasa
Notes on contributors
Anto Aasa, PhD (b. 1977) is a researcher in the Institute of Geography at the University of Tartu. His main fields of research are related to mobile positioning, urban geography, seasonality, influences of climate change, geostatistics and GIS analysis. Has published several articles including tourism, mobile positioning and seasonality studies. He is involved in the mobile positioning research since 2003 where he mainly deals with issues of statistical and GIS analysis.
Rein Ahas, PhD (b. 1966) is professor of human geography at the University of Tartu's Institute of Geography. His main research areas include mobility studies and mobile positioning, environmental impact assessment and seasonality studies. He has published several articles on mobile positioning, including Ahas, R., Aasa, A., Mark, Ü., Pae, T., Kull, T.
2006. "Seasonal tourism spaces in Estonia: case study with mobile positioning data." Tourism Management (Published online 26.07.2006). Ahas, R., Mark, Ü.
2005. "Location based services - new challenges for planning and public administration?" Futures, 37(6): 547-561.
Yoko Alender (b. 1979) is an MA student in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She practices as an architect at Urban Mark architectural office. Her main field of interest concerns studying and creating awareness and perception of space among larger groups in society as well as the role of social networks in this process. She has been involved in mobile positioning studies since 2006, mainly in developing the Estonian Academy of Arts movement study concerning the essence and quality of mobile positioning.
Jan Kaus (b. 1971), writer, poet and essayist, chairman of the Estonian Writers´ Union. He has published two novels - World and a Few (2001) and You (2006), two collections of short stories, a collection of essays and a collection of poetry. His biography can be found at www.estlit.ee/index.php?id=1266.
Jaak Laineste (b. 1976) has received MSc in geoinformatics from Institute of Geography at the Univerity of Tartu, subject of thesis was accuracy and applicability of mobile positioning. He has also MBA in Technology Management from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tartu. He works as technology manager in AS Regio, which develops location-based (i.e. mobile positioning based) service software products to mobile operators around the world under brandname of Reach-U. He has worked in Regio since 1995, being one of the founders and innovators behind positioning technology product line since1999/2000. He has worked on commercial positioning projects for mobile operators in Europe, Middle East and Americas.
Maarja Lõhmus, PhD (b. 1960) is associate professor of Media Studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Tartu. Her main research area includes theory of socio-political publicness and theory of media and journalistic processes, as well as cultural studies and semiotic analysis of public texts. Has published approximately 30 theoretical articles and books, incl. Transformation of Public Text in Totalitarian System: Socio-semiotic analysis of Soviet Censorship practices (2002), Editing: Creation or Censorship (1999), Public Service Broadcasting in Estonia (2001), "People in Domain of Culture" (2004).
Ülar Mark (b.1968) is founder of Urban Mark Architectural Office. Since 2006 chairman of the Union of Estonian Architects. He is also a member of advisory committee for Architectural Policy of Central Government of Estonia. He is a lecturer in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Estonian Academy of Arts since
1999. Focusing studies on how the design and use of the city are changing as digital media and other telecommunications capabilities permeate everyday life and alter the fabric of our communities. His work and writings have been published in Tourism Management, Futures and Estonian Architectural Review Maja.
Kaja Pae (b. 1979) is an MA student in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Estonian Academy of Arts and an undergraduate student in the Physics Department at the University of Tartu. She is a practicing architect at Urban Mark architectural office and participated with Urban Mark in the Emerging Identities - EAST exhibition organised by DAZ in Berlin in 2005-2006. Her main field of interest includes theory of self-organising systems and its connections with planning theory and applications in the field of urban studies. She is involved in the mobile positioning studies since 2003, focusing mainly on questions concerning urbanism.
Age Poom (b. 1979) is a MSc student in the Institute of Geography at the University of Tartu. Her main study objects have been ecological construction and representative assessment methods; she is involved in the development of the Estonian environmental assessment toolkit of buildings and construction since
2003. In mobile positioning studies the main field of interest has been ecological footprint analysis of the movement of people.
Andres Sevtsuk (b. 1981) is a PhD candidate in urban studies and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He completed his Master of Science in Architecture and Urbanism at MIT, and did his undergraduate studies in Tallinn and Paris. He has practiced professionally as an architect in Estonia and France. His research at MIT has focused on the effects of mobile communication technology on city form, on visualizing how cities are used according to communication and transportation networks in real-time, and on technologically enhanced urban design. His SMArchS thesis, titled The Self-aware City, explored the use of real-time information systems for designing a more sustainable resource allocation in cities.
Siiri Silm (b.1980) is a PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University of Tartu. Main research areas include seasonality studies, GIS, human geography and planning. She is engaged in mobile positioning studies since 2004 where she has organised social positioning and urban studies, conducting data and GIS analyses. She has published several articles concerning seasonal effects on social factors.
Toomas Tammis (b. 1969) is professor of architecture at the Estonian Academy of Arts, practicing architect and a partner in ArhitektuuriAgentuur OÜ. He has worked on a wide range of projects from exhibition designs to urban planning. He is currently working on PhD research on Difference and Sameness in European Cityscapes. Recent exhibitions include HABITUAL - built works of ArhitektuuriAgentuur in Blauraum Gallery in Hamburg in 2005, and participation with ArhitektuuriAgentuur in the Emerging Identities - EAST exhibition organised by DAZ in Berlin in 2005-2006.
Margus Tiru (b. 1980) is a MSc student at the Geography Department University of Tartu. Works as an interactive web-based GIS developer at the Estonian GIS company Regio and is a member of Positium mobile positioning research team. Main interests include location based services (LBS), interactive web applications, cartographic animation, GIS. Involved in mobile positioning studies since 2005.
Jüri Soolep, PhD (b. 1962) is dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Since 2001 he is professor of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning. Jüri Soolep is a member of the governmental committee on architectural policies. He received his PhD from Portsmouth University in 2001 - On Realities and Horizons of Design in Architectural Education. Current field of interest includes investigations in space and time modes in architectural phenomena, as well as mythical structures and meanings in the built world. Recent publications on the theme:
2004. "Architecture - Being Given. Temporality in Design Process." (Journal of Architectural Theory. Datutop
24. Vammalan Kirjapaino Oy.)
2004. "Architecture - Being Given." (Contribution and Confusion: Architecture and the Influence of Other Fields of Inquiry. Proceedings ACSA Press.) His lecture series in Estonian Academy of Arts are entitled History of Architecture.Middle Ages and Man and Space.
