AESOP newsletter - July 2023

AESOP would like to thank and acknowledge the Faculty of Management, University of Lodz, that hosted the  AESOP 2023 Congress in Lodz – Integrated Planning in a World of Turbulence. 

We wish to thank in particular our colleagues Maciej Turała, Beata Banachowicz, Iwona Pielesiak, Katarzyna Leśniewska-Napierała and Dominik Drzazga for their excellent work in the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) and for all their cooperation...

AESOP would like to thank the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, for the successful organisation of the 2023 AESOP PhD Workshop.

The Workshop with the theme From Challenges to Responses: Integrated Planning Approaches in Turbulent Times took place between 5-8 July 2023 in Poznan. 

We also wish to express a very special thanks to Paweł Churski, Przemysław Ciesiółka, Maciej Główczyński, Adam Wronkowski and Krystian...

Dear AESOP Colleagues,

I am delighted to inform you that Giancarlo Cotella will be assuming the role of Secretary General on 1 August 2023, also with Donato Casavola as the Assistant to the Secretary General. Both Giancarlo and Donato are based at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST) | Politecnico di Torino. 

The contact details for the AESOP Secretariat will remain as secretariat@aesop-planning.eu. 

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We are pleased to announce that the AESOP Council of Representatives have selected IUAV, University of Venice as the host of AESOP Heads of Schools Meeting 2024 AND University of Liverpool as the host of AESOP Head of Schools Meeting 2025!!

Both bids were so impressive that the AESOP Council of Representatives could not make a unanimous decision, therefore decided to select both institutions!

Congratulations to IUAV and University of Liverpool! We are looking forward...

AESOP 2023 Excellence in Teaching Prize

AIM OF THE PRIZE

Teaching in the broad field of planning is one of the main activities of AESOP Member Schools. Thus, in 2002, AESOP introduced a prize, which recognizes and encourages Excellence in Teaching. Through this award, AESOP celebrates and disseminates innovative practices in teaching in its Member Schools. The broad aim of the Prize is to stimulate the development of planning courses or groups of courses...

This year, 18 outstanding articles were nominated by journal editors for the AESOP Best Published Paper Award. From these, AESOP’s Best Published Paper Committee shortlisted the following five articles:

This year there were 85 self-nominated papers, of which 28 papers were submitted by May 19th deadline. From the submitted self-nominated papers, each track nominated one paper, with one alternative if necessary, or forwarded none in case there was no paper that met the selection criteria. The BCPA Committee reviewed 7 papers by applying the following criteria: Relevance to current debates on the chosen topic; Sound theoretical framework; Clarity of argument(s); Originality of...

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,...

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Haste: The slow politics of climate urgency, edited by Håvard Haarstad, Jakob Grandin, Kristin Kjærås, and Eleanor Johnson. Download it free: https://bit.ly/3D0IZit

What does it mean politically to construct climate change as a matter of urgency? We are certainly running out of time to stop climate change. But perhaps this particular understanding...

M-US-T Master in Temporary Uses

is the first advanced postgraduate course on temporary uses promoted by DAStU, Politecnico di Milano. 

The Master addresses the planning, design, implementation, and management of temporary uses as valuable tools to support processes, projects, and intervention strategies for urban and territorial transformation at different scales. 

The I and II level Master is organized into six modules,...

University College, Cork has advertised for a Senior Lecturer in Planning at its Centre for Planning Education & Research. The position is a senior one (equivalent to Associate Professor / Reader) and we will be looking for a qualified planner with a strong academic / practitioner track record to join our small teaching and research team. 

Based around our flagship Masters in Planning and Sustainable Development (M.Plan),...

Dresden Leibniz Graduate School (DLGS) announces its next call for scholarships on the topic of "Spatial intelligence: Digitalisation and the making of spatial sustainability transformations". 

DLGS is a joint interdisciplinary facility of the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) and the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) in Germany and hosts around 12 PhD candidates working on different topics under the bigger umbrella of...

The University of Manchester seeks to appoint a permanent lectureship to deliver and develop our teaching and research in the area of Environmental Planning the Department of Planning and Environmental Management in the School of Environment, Education and Development. The postholder is expected to particularly contribute to our MSc in Environmental Impact Assessment and Management (MSc EIAM). The post is intended to strengthen the research and teaching capacity of the School...