So the seminar went really well.  Silvia Gullino, the lovely person who had invited me down to speak to them, had organised a really great event, with lunch and a range of people in the audience, including sociologists, GISers, planners and students.  Everyone was really friendly and I have to say I got a really good vibe from everyone at the C-SCAIPE research centre there.

So, how did the paper go down?  Well I have to say I don't think I've ever had a more positive response to a paper.  People seemed genuinely enthused, and had lots of great ideas for how we could proceed with analysis.  What's more, Silvia had advertised the talk on various email lists, and I have had about 5 enquiries subsequently asking for copies of our submitted paper (from overseas as well as UK).

Jane has started a contact list in a 'friends of the project' style, and this also seems to be a great idea as we can act as a bit of a hub for this work.  Will be nice to meet some of these people at the peripatetic workshop as well, especially with one eye on the follow up 'Son of Rescue Goegs' project...

Anyway, all this has confirmed my suspicion that walking methods are rapidly becoming falvour of the month.  When I find the piece of paper that I scribbled down people's suggestions on I'll post them here as well...

Well I haven't found that piece of paper, but i have remembered one particularly interesting suggestion.  This was a planner who suggested that developers might be more interested in this sort of thing than planners, as showing sensitivity to a community and an area may give them a competitive advantage in winning tenders for certain parts of developments, like those on lower eastside which are supposed to be creative, sensitive and so on... interesting idea, target develpers instead of planners.  After all, people are always saying that they are the ones with all the power...