Staff Profile

Sebastian is Founder and Director at PlaceChangers Ltd., a firm focused on digital planning software and based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Sebastian visits the school to provide occasional lectures on digital town planning tools, smart cities, and the future of the built. He holds a PhD in Digital Innovation from Lancaster University focusing on improvement of consultation processes in local government. He is an expert in participatory processes in urban development enabled by locative media. He works with residents, urban planners, city administration professionals, property developers, and ‘techies’ of different domains of computing. 

• Weise S, Chiasson M. Infrastructuring public consultation in town planning — How town planners translate public consultation into a socio-technical support system. Computer Supported Collaborative Work 2020, 29, 533-561.
• Weise S, Wilson A, Vigar G. Reflections on Deploying Community-Driven Visualisations for Public Engagement in Urban Planning. Urban Planning 2020, 5(2), 59-70.
• Hemment D, Weise S, Conteh F. Evaluation of human-centred design in CityVerve —Learnings for large-scale demonstrators. Manchester, UK: FutureEverything, 2018.
• Weise S, Coulton P, Chiasson M. Designing in between local government and the public - using institutional analysis in interventions on civic infrastructures. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2017, 26(4-6), 927-958.
• Kirkham R, Ebassa R, Montague K, Morrissey K, Vlachokyriakos V, Weise S, Olivier P. WheelieMap: An Exploratory System for Qualitative Reports of Inaccessibility in the Built Environment. In: MobileHCI 2017 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. 2017, Vienna: ACM.
• Büscher Monika, Perng Sung-Yueh, Weise Sebastian. Periphere Kooperation am Beispiel der Anschläge in Norwegen 2011 / Peripheral Cooperation in Crises: Norway 22/7/11. i-com 2014, 13(1). In Preparation.
• Salinas L, Weise S, Pollastri S. Transforming the planning process — challenges for the service designer. In: ServDes.: Service Design & Innovation Conference. 2014, Lancaster, UK.
• Weise Sebastian, Hardy John, Agarwal Pragya, Coulton Paul, Friday Adrian, Chiasson Mike. Democratizing ubiquitous computing: a right for locality. Proceeding UbiComp '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing 2012.
• Weise Sebastian, Hardy John, Agarwal Pragya, Coulton Paul, Friday Adrian, Chiasson Mike. The case of urban development: Fostering off-line interactions through local ubicomp systems. Proceedings of Ubicomp'12 2012.