GIS and Society Workshop

Specialist Meeting Agenda

Saturday, March 2, 1996

• 5:00 - Opening Remarks and Plenary Session
• 6:45 - Dinner

Sunday, March 3, 1996

• 8:45 - Breakfast
• 9:30 - Plenary

Small group discussion on Conceptual Issue 1: "In what ways have particular logics and visualization techniques, value systems, forms of reasoning, and ways of understanding the world been incorporated into existing GIS techniques and in what ways have alternative forms of representation been filtered out."

• 11:00 - Plenary

Small groups report on discussion generated by Conceptual Issue 1

• 12:45 - Lunch
• 2:00 - Small group discussion on Conceptual Issues 2 and 3
• 3:45 - Plenary

Small groups report on discussion generated by Conceptual Issue 2

• 6:00 - Dinner

Monday, March 4, 1996

• 8:00 - Breakfast
• 9:00 - Plenary

Small group discussion on topic of interest GIS 2 / Virtual Geographies / GIS as Social Practice / Intellectual History of GIS / Environmental Justice / Political Ecology / Local Knowledge / Multiple Realities / Community Action / Data Access / Privacy / Geodemographics / Gender / Representation

• 12:00 - Lunch
• 2:00 - Small groups report on discussion topics
• 4:00 - Optional time for small groups to continue discussions
• 6:00 - Dinner

Tuesday, March 5, 1996

• 8:00 - Breakfast
• 9:00 - Final Plenary, Research directions, Closing
• 12:00 - Lunch and Departure

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