The “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS or SMUS) collaborated with the Research Committee on “Logic and Methodology in Sociology” (RC33) of the “International Sociology Association” (ISA) and the Research Network “Quantitative Methods” (RN21) of the European Sociology Association” (ESA) to organize the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (“SMUS Conference”). The conference also served as the “3rd RC33 Regional Conference Asia: India” and took place on site at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee, India) from Monday, February 20th, to Sunday, February 26th, 2023. Additionally, in 2022, IIT Roorkee celebrated 175 years (1847-2022) of imparting technical education and contributing to the development of society.
The six-day conference aimed at continuing a global dialogue on methods and was intended to attract methodologists from all over the world and all social and spatial sciences (e. g. anthropology, area studies, architecture, communication studies, computational sciences, digital humanities, educational sciences, geography, historical sciences, humanities, landscape planning, philosophy, psychology, sociology, urban design, urban planning, traffic planning and environmental planning). The conference programme included keynotes, sessions, and advanced methodological training courses.
All papers had to address a methodological problem. Conference sessions aimed to address a methodological problem through sessions on general issues of social science methodology and epistemology as well as on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches, focusing on a wide range of themes.