Planning Institute of Australia 2011 National Congress 6 - 9 March 2011 Hobart, Tasmania
September 15th 2010 23:04
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Tasmania is the beautiful location for the 2011 National Congress
Hobart, the scenic capital of Tasmania is the beautiful location for the 2011 National Congress.
The Congress will be a memorable event with an extensive program of speakers exploring the role of planning in confronting the many challenges in the contemporary world.
The 2011 Congress will seek to look outside the profession and present a lively and informative expose of the way planners engage with the world and how the world perceives planning. The title Critical Mass symbolises some serious soul searching for the profession as well as the need to create effective partnerships to make the changes needed.
The outcome will be new insights and perspectives on the various roles that the myriad of professionals, the community and the media think about planning and planners, thereby assisting us to adapt and reinvent the way we engage in tackling the diverse problems we face as a profession and as a broad community.
During the Conference experience Hobart's many renowned attractions and take some time to discover an island rich in world heritage wilderness and full of adventure and culture.
Call for Abstracts Guidelines
The Planning Institute of Australia?s 2011 National Congress is titled -" Critical Mass  Planning Engages the World", The 2011 Congress will seek to look outside the profession and present a lively and informative expose of the way planners engage with the world and how the world perceives planning. The title "Critical Mass" symbolises some serious soul searching for the profession as well as the need to create effective partnerships to make the changes needed. The Congress has three sub themes which seek to capture views about the planning profession and its output from thinkers, media, arts, commentators (Thinking Planning); from those other professionals and sectors who work with planners (Working Planning); and from the end users of planning - communities, industries, businesses, and others (Living Planning)
We invite you to submit an abstract for presentation. This year there are 3 broad themes to submit your abstract under. Abstracts are not limited to the suggested themes. We encourage you to submit an abstract even if it does not fall into the categories below. Thought provoking, creative abstracts will be highly encouraged to stimulate delegate's interest throughout the Congress program.
We look forward to receiving your abstract and working with you to develop a program that will allow us engage with the world.
Download Abstract Template
PIAC 2011 Abstract TemplateDOC[25k]
Submit Abstracts Online
Submit Abstracts Online
Key Dates
Abstract Submission Open: Monday 9 August 2010 Abstract Submissions
Close: Monday 20 September 2010
Notification of Abstract Submission:Monday 4 October 2010
For peer review papers only: Submission off Draft Full Paper Friday
12 November 2010 Abstract Themes
The 2011 National Congress seeks abstracts broadly based on the following themes:
Thinking Planning
Living Planning
Working Planning
Thinking planning
Thinking planning is aimed at providing an insight into how the planning profession and its practice are perceived as part of society and our culture. How do leading thinkers, academics, commentators, artists and the media see planning and portray it through their work? How is planning dealt with in the media? What images do we as a society have of planning and planners? How do planners respond to the 'image of the profession'? What can planners learn from listening and watching the way issues are dealt with by other sectors of the community and the shapers of public opinion?
To answer these questions the Congress invites papers, presentations, and workshops from philosophers, writers, artists, journalists, academics from a variety of fields, and other observers and commentators on society.
Working planning
Working planning will seek to explore the relationship of the planning profession with a variety of other professions operating across the broad field of built environment, and social, economic and cultural development. This sub-theme is about collaboration, cooperation and partnerships as well confrontation, "silo thinking" and single issue approaches to problems. What can we learn from the good, the bad and the ugly examples of people working with planners and planning systems and techniques? What are the benefits and drawbacks of working with planners in different ways and what opportunities and challenges emerge from a broader more inclusive partnership approach?
Working planning is focused on seeking the views and experiences of other professionals such as architects, engineers, economists, social scientists, developers, decision makers and other stakeholders who work with or engage planners on projects.
Living planning
Living planning provides the platform to critically consider the products of planners' work by seeking the views of the "consumers" of planning in the broadest sense. Those who live with the consequences of planning both positive and negative are a rich source of advice on how we can do things better. Living planning is about listening to the communities, industries, farmers, workers, residents and others who work, live and play within the environment that is to a greater or lesser extent the output of the planning processes.
Living planning will ask the hard questions about what we produce as planners and how we might better respond to the needs of those we are essentially planning for.
The Program Committee welcomes abstracts that may not fall into the themes above and for the author to nominate another theme to be included into the program.
Presentation Length
Oral presentations will be 20 minutes plus 5 minutes question time (25 minutes in total).
Presentation Type
Oral Presentation and Optional Written Paper
Your abstract will be considered by the Congress Program Committee and either accepted or rejected. Following acceptance of an abstract, authors are also invited to submit a full written paper by Friday 25 February 2011 (optional). If your abstract is rejected, you may be offered the opportunity to give a Poster Presentation.
Oral Presentation and Written Paper (peer review)
Your abstract will be considered by the Congress Program Committee and either accepted or rejected. Following acceptance of an abstract, authors nominating for peer review will be required to submit a full draft paper (of up to 5,000 words) by 12 November 2010. This draft will be 'double blind' reviewed by two referees and these reviews considered by the Congress Program Committee. Papers submitted for peer review will be either accepted as is; accepted pending revision; or accepted only as a non-refereed Oral Presentation. Authors failing to submit a full paper by the due date will be reclassified as presenting a non-refereed Oral Presentation.
Poster Presentation
Your abstract will be considered by the Congress Program Committee, and will be accepted as long as it is consistent with the conference theme. You will be allocated a space in the Poster Presentation Area (Exhibition) at the Congress where you can post visual materials and offer in-person commentary and discussion during tea breaks & lunches.
Guidelines
Preparation & Layout
Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words.
Abstracts should be submitted in 12 point Arial font.
The presenting authors name should be underlined and all author affiliations should be included.
The abstract must be single-spaced and a clear line between paragraphs.
Abstracts should be text only. Graphics, pictures or graphs should not be submitted.
Abstracts must be free of typographical and grammatical errors.
Abstracts should comprise of the following elements with each element beginning a new paragraph.
Title
Authors
Address/Affiliations
Abstract text
The abstracts must contain sufficient information, so that if it is published, it will be a complete report independent of presentation.
The text should not contain statements alluding to results or conclusions not presented in the text.
Abbreviations: standard abbreviations may be used for common terms only.
Uncommon terms, the abbreviations should be given in brackets after the first full use of the word.
Special Characters: To avoid character corruption any special characters should be entered using either Times New Roman or Symbol font
Conditions of Submission
All presenting authors must register and pay to attend the Congress. All authors must register to attend at least the day of their presentation and preferably the full congress
Submission of abstracts implies the author's agreement to publish the full paper in the final congress program and any other publications associated with the congress including the web site and Australian Planner.
Successful abstracts must be presented by the author/s.
Authors have the option to submit their paper for peer review. Following acceptance of an abstract, authors nominating for peer review will be required to submit a full draft paper (of up to 5,000 words) by 12 November 2010. Papers submitted for peer review will be either accepted as is; accepted pending revision; or accepted only as a non-refereed paper.
It is desirable but not compulsory for authors of non-peer review papers to submit a full paper of their presentation by Friday 25 February 2011.
Acceptance of abstracts does not imply any payment from the Congress Committee. Authors must arrange and pay their own accommodation, travel etc. to attend the conference, unless otherwise stated.
Acceptance or otherwise is at the discretion of the Congress Program Committee whose decision is final.
All abstracts must be submitted by Monday 20 September 2010.
The Congress will be a memorable event with an extensive program of speakers exploring the role of planning in confronting the many challenges in the contemporary world.
The outcome will be new insights and perspectives on the various roles that the myriad of professionals, the community and the media think about planning and planners, thereby assisting us to adapt and reinvent the way we engage in tackling the diverse problems we face as a profession and as a broad community.
During the Conference experience Hobart's many renowned attractions and take some time to discover an island rich in world heritage wilderness and full of adventure and culture.
Call for Abstracts Guidelines
The Planning Institute of Australia?s 2011 National Congress is titled -" Critical Mass  Planning Engages the World", The 2011 Congress will seek to look outside the profession and present a lively and informative expose of the way planners engage with the world and how the world perceives planning. The title "Critical Mass" symbolises some serious soul searching for the profession as well as the need to create effective partnerships to make the changes needed. The Congress has three sub themes which seek to capture views about the planning profession and its output from thinkers, media, arts, commentators (Thinking Planning); from those other professionals and sectors who work with planners (Working Planning); and from the end users of planning - communities, industries, businesses, and others (Living Planning)
We invite you to submit an abstract for presentation. This year there are 3 broad themes to submit your abstract under. Abstracts are not limited to the suggested themes. We encourage you to submit an abstract even if it does not fall into the categories below. Thought provoking, creative abstracts will be highly encouraged to stimulate delegate's interest throughout the Congress program.
We look forward to receiving your abstract and working with you to develop a program that will allow us engage with the world.
Download Abstract Template
PIAC 2011 Abstract TemplateDOC[25k]
Submit Abstracts Online
Submit Abstracts Online
Key Dates
Abstract Submission Open: Monday 9 August 2010 Abstract Submissions
Close: Monday 20 September 2010
Notification of Abstract Submission:Monday 4 October 2010
For peer review papers only: Submission off Draft Full Paper Friday
12 November 2010 Abstract Themes
The 2011 National Congress seeks abstracts broadly based on the following themes:
Thinking Planning
Living Planning
Working Planning
Thinking planning
Thinking planning is aimed at providing an insight into how the planning profession and its practice are perceived as part of society and our culture. How do leading thinkers, academics, commentators, artists and the media see planning and portray it through their work? How is planning dealt with in the media? What images do we as a society have of planning and planners? How do planners respond to the 'image of the profession'? What can planners learn from listening and watching the way issues are dealt with by other sectors of the community and the shapers of public opinion?
To answer these questions the Congress invites papers, presentations, and workshops from philosophers, writers, artists, journalists, academics from a variety of fields, and other observers and commentators on society.
Working planning
Working planning will seek to explore the relationship of the planning profession with a variety of other professions operating across the broad field of built environment, and social, economic and cultural development. This sub-theme is about collaboration, cooperation and partnerships as well confrontation, "silo thinking" and single issue approaches to problems. What can we learn from the good, the bad and the ugly examples of people working with planners and planning systems and techniques? What are the benefits and drawbacks of working with planners in different ways and what opportunities and challenges emerge from a broader more inclusive partnership approach?
Working planning is focused on seeking the views and experiences of other professionals such as architects, engineers, economists, social scientists, developers, decision makers and other stakeholders who work with or engage planners on projects.
Living planning
Living planning provides the platform to critically consider the products of planners' work by seeking the views of the "consumers" of planning in the broadest sense. Those who live with the consequences of planning both positive and negative are a rich source of advice on how we can do things better. Living planning is about listening to the communities, industries, farmers, workers, residents and others who work, live and play within the environment that is to a greater or lesser extent the output of the planning processes.
Living planning will ask the hard questions about what we produce as planners and how we might better respond to the needs of those we are essentially planning for.
The Program Committee welcomes abstracts that may not fall into the themes above and for the author to nominate another theme to be included into the program.
Presentation Length
Oral presentations will be 20 minutes plus 5 minutes question time (25 minutes in total).
Presentation Type
Oral Presentation and Optional Written Paper
Your abstract will be considered by the Congress Program Committee and either accepted or rejected. Following acceptance of an abstract, authors are also invited to submit a full written paper by Friday 25 February 2011 (optional). If your abstract is rejected, you may be offered the opportunity to give a Poster Presentation.
Oral Presentation and Written Paper (peer review)
Your abstract will be considered by the Congress Program Committee and either accepted or rejected. Following acceptance of an abstract, authors nominating for peer review will be required to submit a full draft paper (of up to 5,000 words) by 12 November 2010. This draft will be 'double blind' reviewed by two referees and these reviews considered by the Congress Program Committee. Papers submitted for peer review will be either accepted as is; accepted pending revision; or accepted only as a non-refereed Oral Presentation. Authors failing to submit a full paper by the due date will be reclassified as presenting a non-refereed Oral Presentation.
Poster Presentation
Your abstract will be considered by the Congress Program Committee, and will be accepted as long as it is consistent with the conference theme. You will be allocated a space in the Poster Presentation Area (Exhibition) at the Congress where you can post visual materials and offer in-person commentary and discussion during tea breaks & lunches.
Guidelines
Preparation & Layout
Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words.
Abstracts should be submitted in 12 point Arial font.
The presenting authors name should be underlined and all author affiliations should be included.
The abstract must be single-spaced and a clear line between paragraphs.
Abstracts should be text only. Graphics, pictures or graphs should not be submitted.
Abstracts must be free of typographical and grammatical errors.
Abstracts should comprise of the following elements with each element beginning a new paragraph.
Title
Authors
Address/Affiliations
Abstract text
The abstracts must contain sufficient information, so that if it is published, it will be a complete report independent of presentation.
The text should not contain statements alluding to results or conclusions not presented in the text.
Abbreviations: standard abbreviations may be used for common terms only.
Uncommon terms, the abbreviations should be given in brackets after the first full use of the word.
Special Characters: To avoid character corruption any special characters should be entered using either Times New Roman or Symbol font
Conditions of Submission
All presenting authors must register and pay to attend the Congress. All authors must register to attend at least the day of their presentation and preferably the full congress
Submission of abstracts implies the author's agreement to publish the full paper in the final congress program and any other publications associated with the congress including the web site and Australian Planner.
Successful abstracts must be presented by the author/s.
Authors have the option to submit their paper for peer review. Following acceptance of an abstract, authors nominating for peer review will be required to submit a full draft paper (of up to 5,000 words) by 12 November 2010. Papers submitted for peer review will be either accepted as is; accepted pending revision; or accepted only as a non-refereed paper.
It is desirable but not compulsory for authors of non-peer review papers to submit a full paper of their presentation by Friday 25 February 2011.
Acceptance of abstracts does not imply any payment from the Congress Committee. Authors must arrange and pay their own accommodation, travel etc. to attend the conference, unless otherwise stated.
Acceptance or otherwise is at the discretion of the Congress Program Committee whose decision is final.
All abstracts must be submitted by Monday 20 September 2010.
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