AESOP newsletter - June 2023

Dear AESOP Community,

We are more then happy to host the 35th AESOP 2023 Annual Congress in Lodz from 11 - 15 July!

Over 800 abstracts have been submitted within 17 congress’s tracks to be presented at the congress. We would like to express our deep gratitude to the Co-chairs for the great work they put into evaluating the abstracts.

We are looking forward to welcome over 500 participants in person in Lodz and over 50 participants online. We strongly...

Conference of the AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures

“Urban Conflicts and Peace: Everyday Politics of Commons”

5 - 6 October 2023, Naples, Italy

Hosted by the National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development, Naples, Italy

The conference is part of the series of events to the working theme 2022-2024 of the AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures (TG...

Planning Theory Lecture Series 2023

BEYOND ‘INVITED’ PARTICIPATION: practices of agonistic citizenship in urban transformation

14 June - 19 July 2023, Wednesdays 5:00–6:30 pm s.t. CEST 

The ideal and practice of citizens participation has long played a central role in the democratic understanding of urban planning processes. As such, however, participatory planning practices have always been contested in terms of the...

Please see communication below from the ACSP Presdient, Laxmi Ramasubramanian, concerning the ACSP 2023 Conference:

Dear ACSP Educators, Researchers and Students,

At its virtual meeting on June 27th, 2023, the ACSP Governing Board decided to move the Fall 2023 annual conference away from Miami and to host the 2023 conference in another city. The Governing Board made this very difficult decision to stay in alignment with the ACSP Values statement,...

Dear all,

We invite you to participate in the 15-minute City (15mC) Mapping Survey, an integral part of the DUT 15mC Mapping project. This initiative is funded by the DUT (Driving Urban Transition) partnership. The Technical University of Munich (TUM) coordinates the project with the University of Westminster and the Instituto da Construção (Construction Institute).

The primary objective of this survey is to establish a comprehensive understanding of the ±15-minute...

SMUS THAILAND Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability - Conference 

The 2024 MSc Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design programme is now open for application! This interdisciplinary double-degree links perspectives from the Global South and North by studying the first year at University of Stuttgart, Germany, and for Double-Degree students the second year at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. Students learn critical engagement with theories and practices related to dynamically transforming cities, new skills and methodologies...

A call is now open for applications for five positions in the PhD programme of Urban Planning, Design and Policy (39th PhD cycle) at Politecnico di Milano. All scholarships are funded with resources of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) and based on predefined research topics illustrated in the call. All scholarships cover three years of study and research starting from September or November 2023 (the exact start date is specified in each scholarship...

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, with a focus on Urban and Regional Planning

Subject/subject description
The Department of Human Geography conducts courses in Human Geography, Urban and Regional Planning and Geography. We also participate in several multidiscipline programs at the undergraduate and master’s levels.

Main responsibilities
The main duties of a senior lecturer are teaching, research and administration. This position includes...

The interdisciplinary Research Training Group (RTG) KRITIS "Critical infrastructures: Construction,
Functional Crises and Protection in Cities" at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, offers a

PhD position (f/m/d)

scheduled to begin on 1 October 2023 or earlier. The position is initially limited to 2 years (until 30 September 2025, 0.65 of full-time employment). Both supervisors will support the successful candidate in applying for a 1–2-year...