The FGKD24 - 2024 Fourth Generation Knowledge Districts Congress will be the 1st International Conference of the CEUCI - Center for Studies on Urbanization for Knowledge and Innovation.
The congress will be held at the UNICAMP CDC Convention Center in Campinas, SP, from May 20 to 21, 2024. The target audience includes researchers, companies, non-governmental organizations, public sector representatives, and members of civil society interested in the topic.
Industrial districts had a major influence on the growth and development of Latin American cities throughout the 20th century, though with results that were not always positive from an environmental perspective. In recent decades, innovation districts have emerged as new urban areas with the potential to contribute to social and economic development in a more sustainable manner. In the Brazilian case, as in Latin America, these districts—typically located on urban fringes—are limited to second or third-generation examples that seek to promote interaction between academia and industry, and more recently, government. These typologies follow the so-called triple helix innovation model. However, with the evolution toward the quintuple helix innovation model, society and the environment have become inseparable spheres for the success of innovation districts, in what we term the fourth generation of knowledge territories.
There are, however, significant challenges to the success of these districts, such as funding, as well as risks in their implementation, such as the destruction of pre-existing conditions, gentrification, and disconnection from other areas of the city. This event proposes to bring together actors from the three helices typically associated with technology parks—academia, industry, and government—to discuss this broader model of knowledge production territories, involving society and the environment.
Contributions to the event are accepted in Portuguese and English, and in several different formats: (1) scientific contributions, in the form of papers or posters; (2) urban and architectural design projects for technology parks and innovation hubs, in the form of short presentations or posters; (3) public policies, urban regulations, tax incentives, and other forms of promoting technology parks and innovation centers, in the form of roundtables; (4) practical workshops, held before the event. The general public may also participate as attendees.
The acceptance of scientific papers and posters will be subject to a two-stage review process, consisting of an initial abstract review and a subsequent double-blind peer review of the full manuscripts. The publication of papers and poster abstracts is subject to acceptance by reviewers, compliance with submission deadlines and formatting guidelines, and payment of the congress registration fee. Selected papers and poster abstracts will be published in open-access online proceedings with DOI and ISBN. Multiple contributions are subject to multiple registrations.
Themes
Conference topics include, but are not limited to:
Urban design and planning in knowledge districts
Urban qualities of successful parks and districts – morphology, infrastructure, land use, and public space
Local and regional integration of parks and districts – the role of mobility networks and their hierarchies
Case studies of technology parks and knowledge districts
Retrofitting 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation knowledge districts – roadmaps and challenges
