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Topics & Scope

Topics

Recommended topics on system engineering include, but are not limited to:

  • large and complex production networks

  • community based manufacturing / PS*

  • social network-based manufacturing / PS

  • co-production

  • micro and individual enterprise

  • ubiquitous and cloud production systems

  • decision support systems 

  • product service systems (PSS)

  • business models

  • quality assurance and certifications

  • case studies

  • social networks / crowdsourcing

  • low-cost machines and tools

  • sustainability and self-employment

  • additive technologies

  • digitalisation

  • blockchain tecnhology

* PS - production system

Recommended topics on urban planning and architecture focus on, but are not limited to:

  • city as a productionpolis / naturopolis

  • super-eco urban environments

  • responsive city

  • smart city

  • de-urbanization

  • urban manufacturing

  • urban agriculture / farming

  • designing production spaces

  • social impact

  • transformative changes

  • history

  • social aspects

  • infrastructure

  • interior and furniture design

  • product design in the context of production in urban environments

 
 
 
Topics
Scope

Scope

With half of the world's population already living in urban areas and the enlargement of production as the necessity for future economic growth, cities are already merging production in its fabric.Traditional forms of production and urban planning methods contributed to the growth of social, economic and ecological problems that mark the millennium. Sprawling, inequality, pollution, rigid constrains, zoning obstacles define everyday life of urban environments. The demand for a new approach in organizing production, with the opposite directives and goals of the existing traditional method, is ever-growing.One of the systems that theory offers as a solution to the inherited chaos is the system of production in urban environments.Production in

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