AESOP newsletter - March 2024

It is with deep regret that we bid farewell to Patsy Healey, an outstanding figure in the field of planning and a founding member and former President of AESOP. Patsy passed away on 7 March 2024, leaving a significant gap in the world of planning education and research.

Patsy Healey, an Emeritus Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, UK, made significant contributions to the development and advancement of planning theory,...

AESOP would like to thank the IUAV of Venice and express our utmost gratitude for the excellent organization of the 2024 AESOP Heads of Schools.

We wish to thank the Venice Local Organizing Committee, Francesco Musco, Matteo Basso, Laura Fregolent, and Filippo Magni for all their work and commitment to the organization of the AESOP Heads of Schools Meeting and for their major contribution to the success of this event.

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We are delighted to inform the AESOP community that during the last Council of Representative meeting, held in Venice on the occasion of the 2024 Head of Schools meeting, the AESOP 2024 Core Curriculum has been approved. 

The AESOP Core Curriculum represents an updated version of the Core Requirements for a high-quality European Planning Education, issued in 1995 as part of AESOP’s statement on European Planning Education (AESOP Working Group on the Curriculum of...

AESOP COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES – National Representative Elections 2024

Dear Colleagues,

The 2022-2024 mandatory period of the National Representatives in the AESOP Council of Representatives will soon be over, and new National Representatives need to be elected/appointed. The right to elect new National Representatives rests with Full Members of AESOP in each country. If you are interested in joining the Co-Rep please be directly in touch with your current...

Dear Colleagues, we are delighted to share with all of you that the Book of Proceedings of the 35th AESOP Annual Congress: Integrated Planning in a World of Turbulence held in Lodz is now available!

You can find it within the AESOP Eprints.

You can also find it at the AESOP Annual Congress Website of Lodz.

We once again thank the Lodz LOC for its precious work!

Abstract submission for ACSP congress 2024 in Seattle, is open. More information here: https://www.acsp.org/page/ConfAllAbout2024

Urban planning shapes the future. Very often, though, planners fail to recognise varied types and uses of futures they deal with: futures as material continuities; futures as expectations and visions; futures as predictions reflecting data on the past; or futures as unexpected discontinuities and radical transformations. This deficit becomes urgent in the current context where cities and metropolitan regions are increasingly guided by transformative future targets, such as climate...

The 2024 ARL Congress Major Infrastructure Projects - Planning: between protests and calls to pick up the pace will include two hybrid English-language sessions.

Even if you are not participating in the ARL Congress 2024, you are very welcome to join these sessions online. To register free of charge and receive the login link, please send an informal e-mail by 15 April to kongress@arl-net.de

Hybrid session #1:Integrative planning and conflicts

Thursday,...

The passing of Luigi Mazza in May 2023 saddened anybody who knew his witty humour and brilliant intelligence. The remembrance is combined with gratitude for his fruitful contribution to planning theory and practice. The Department of Architecture and Urban Studies commemorates this gentleman planner in a bilingual seminar on the topics that inspired him most in half a century of professional, academic and scientific life.

 The report following this symposium is available here.

The fifth event of the two-year period 2022-2024 on the working theme ‘Public Spaces, Urban Cultures, and Constructing Peace’ will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus on 30 and 31 May 2024. It will be an in-presence symposium entitled ‘Constructing Peace through Public Space: What publics? Whose commons?’ The symposium will be organized at the Goethe Institute...

The Department of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University offers the following position (starting at the earliest opportunity):

Professorship (W1) with W3 tenure track Landscape Planning

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TU Dortmund University comprises 17 departments in the natural and engineering sciences as well as the humanities and social sciences and is a dynamic university with a strong profile in research, teaching, promotion of young scientists and transfer.
With...

28-29 November 2024, RWTH Aachen University

Time is too often a peripheral element in scholarly and practical discourses. It is frequently treated as a neutral background factor instead of an active force that shapes cities and their planning. However, complex socio-spatial systems continuously evolve and transform over time in ways that are sometimes predictable, and others spontaneous; sometimes slow, and others fast. Planners are at the frontline of this...