AESOP newsletter - December 2024

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 2025 AESOP PhD Workshop Istanbul, Türkiye,  2-5 July 2025

"PLANNING FOR EQUITABLE AND JUST FUTURES: EXPLORING TRANSFORMATIVE APPROACHES"

Call For Applications now open till 31st January 2025

We are thrilled to welcome you to the 2025 AESOP PhD Workshop, hosted by Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul, from 2 to 5 July 2025. This year’s workshop will explore the theme: “Planning...

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - 37th AESOP Annual Congress 2025 Istanbul, Türkiye, July 7 -11 2025

"PLANNING AS A TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION IN AN AGE OF PLANETARY CRISIS"

 Dear AESOP Colleagues and Friends,

With great enthusiasm and anticipation, the Department of City and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture of the Yıldız Technical University welcomes you to Istanbul on July 7-11, 2025 for the 37th AESOP Annual...

CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS AND ROUNDTABLES  - 37th AESOP Annual Congress 2025 Istanbul, Türkiye 7-11 July 2025

"PLANNING AS A TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION IN AN AGE OF PLANETARY CRISIS"

Call for Special Sessions and Roundtables are now open until 15 January 2025!

We are happy to invite the submission of proposals to organize Special Sessions and Roundtables on the occasion of the 37th AESOP Annual Congress 2025...

Legitimate and Inclusive Planning Education for Changing and Challenging times​​

University of Liverpool

Planning theorists and educators have long grappled with the issue of what gives planning and planners legitimacy to ‘pronounce’ on the forms and outcomes of development that serve the public interest. The current political and societal climate underscores the enduring relevance of such questions. The rise of populist and anti-truth...

The call for hosting the 2027 AESOP Congress is now open.

All Full and Associate AESOP Member institutions are warmly encouraged to apply.

The deadline for the submission of the bids is February 27th, 2025. 

The decision will be made by the Council of Representatives at the meeting in Liverpool on March 12th, 2025. 

The candidates will be kindly asked to prepare a 10-minute presentation for the Council...

The call for hosting the 2026 AESOP PhD Workshop is now open! 

All Full and Associate AESOP Member institutions are warmly encouraged to apply[1].

The deadline for the submission of bids is February  21st, 2025. 

The decision will be made by the Council of Representatives at the meeting which will take place during the AESOP 2025 Heads of School Meeting in Liverpool, on March 12th,...

AESOP is looking for candidates willing to organize the AESOP Lecture Series in 2025. 

The application has to be from an Academic on behalf of an AESOP member institution.

The Lecture Series was initiated in 2012 as part of the AESOP’s Silver Jubilee Year celebrations. Since then, a series of Lectures have been regularly organized with prominent ‘urban thinkers’, both academics and practitioners. The idea has been to attract not only the local...

2025 AESOP Excellence in Teaching Prize

Teaching and capacity development in the field of spatial planning is one of the main activities of AESOP Member Schools. Thus, in 2002, AESOP introduced a prize (https://aesop-planning.eu/activities/awards/excellence-in-teaching-award ) to recognize and encourage Excellence in Teaching.

Through this award, AESOP celebrates and disseminates innovative practices...

AESOP is pleased to announce the call for the position of President.

This prestigious leadership role is central to the Association’s strategic direction and collaboration within the global planning education community. 

Position Overview

According to Article 23(c) of the AESOP Charter, the President serves a two-year term, starting in August 2026 and concluding in July 2028....

AESOP is pleased to announce the call for the position of Treasurer.

This key role involves overseeing the financial management of the association and contributing to its long-term stability and success.

Position Overview

As outlined in Article 23(e) of the AESOP Charter, the Treasurer serves a four-year term, starting in August 2025 and concluding in July 2029. 

Key Responsibilities

AESOP is pleased to announce the call for the position of AESOP’s representative in the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN).

Position Overview

As outlined in Article 23(f) of the AESOP Charter, the AESOP GPEAN representative serves a four-year term, beginning in August 2025 and concluding in July 2029. The elected candidate will act as AESOP’s voice within GPEAN, fostering...

The AESOP Young Academics (YA) participated in the 12th World Urban Forum (WUF12) held in Cairo, Egypt, from November 4-8, 2024. Under the overarching theme of "It All Starts at Home: Local Actions for Sustainable Cities and Communities," the Forum aimed to showcase how localized initiatives can drive the achievement of sustainable urban development goals. Within this context, the AESOP Young Academics contributed significantly by organizing a 90-minute Networking Event under...

The newly released Volume 8, Issue 1 (November 2024) is a themed issue exploring "conformorality" - a concept combining conformity and morality, with insights relevant to urban planning ethics. 

Call for Papers: Ideology, Power and Expertise in the Political Economy of Land Policy

For a Panel at the ECPR General Conference 2025 Section: The Return of Land Politics: New Imaginaries, Debates, and Challenges, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 26 – 29 August 2025

Please submit your abstract (max. 500 words) to Edward Shepherd (ShepherdE6@cardiff.ac.uk) by 17:00 on Friday 13 December.

Abstract:...

LAND4FLOOD is a Task Force of the International Water Resources Association that focuses on natural flood retention on private land. It aims to explore such different issues and their interrelation to establish a common platform for academics from different disciplines, decision-makers, landowners, and other stakeholders relevant for the topic.

The second LAND4FLOOD conference will be held in Timişoara, Romania, from September 3rd to 5th, 2025. Call...

 Org.: A. Prof. Paulo Silva, Chair Global Planning Education Associations Network (GPEAN) 

Co-org.: African Association of Planning Schools (AAPS), Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), Asociación Latinoamericana de Escuelas de Urbanismo (ALEUP), Asian Planning Schools Association (APSA), Associação...

Exploring land-management across Europe: perspectives, challenges and practices

UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN CATANIA (IT), 29-30 May 2025:

INSTITUTING CIVICS CIVIC INSTITUTIONS

A SEARCH (CONFERENCE) FOR INNOVATING PLANNING THEORY AND PRACTICE, BEYOND THE COLLABORATION-CONFLICT DICHOTOMY

https://www.resisting-prin.it/instituting-civics-civic-institutions-open-call/

For decades planning scholars have debated on the importance of looking at planning as an endeavour engaging not just institutional decision-makers...

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE 

DECOLONISING SPATIAL PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN EUROPE

Eurocentrism often presents itself as profound ignorance of Europeans about the European domination over lives outside Europe. Postcolonial studies call this ignorance colonial amnesia. Spatial planners suffer from colonial amnesia, for example, by ignoring that many European cities were built with revenues from slavery,...

We would like to invite you to submit Panel and individual paper proposals to the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2025 special Section ‘The Return of Land Politics: New Imaginaries, Debates and Challenges’. You can review the Section abstract here: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/SectionDetails/1504

The 2025 conference will take place in Thessaloniki, 26-29th of August 2025. We have space for up to seven Panels...

Ciudades 29 (2026)
“Processes, actors and temporalities of the institutionalisation of urban planning. On the seventieth anniversary of the 1956 Spanish Land Law”

Dear colleagues, this call aims to stimulate contributions aimed to address the implementation and consolidation in Spain of a modern legislative framework for town planning. All proposals that address this issue in its various dimensions and manifestations are welcome. Below...

Is the 15-Minute City the Last Planning Utopia?

The AESOP TG on Ethics, Values, and Planning invites you to join an engaging online debate on the 15-Minute City, featuring Alain Bertaud, on Monday, January 20, 2025, from 5:00 to 6:30 PM (CET). 

The discussion will begin with an introductory presentation by the invited speaker, Alain Bertaud (have a look at his website: Link).

Then,...

(Re)producing everyday life
Contesti. Città, Territori, Progetti No 1(2024)
edited by Chiara Belingardi, Gabriella Esposito De Vita, Stefania Ragozzino, Tihomir Viderman

AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures

Call for Expressions of Interest to host the Thematic Group’s Meeting 2024-2026

"Public Spaces, Urban Cultures, and Hope"

Working theme written by the TG PSUC’s Coordination team [Tihomir Viderman (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg), Matej Nikšič (Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia), Evangelia Athanassiou (Aristotle University Thessaloniki)]. Reviews and revisions by TG PSUC’s...

The AESOP Thematic Group Ethics, Values and Planning is delighted to announce the publication of a themed issue: "Exploring Conformorality in Planning Debates: Perspectives and Implications"

Conformorality is an intriguing concept that describes the tendency of individuals within a particular group or community to align with specific moral views and values. What role does conformorality play in planning debates? This special issue delves into the...

Job opportunity at the University of Birmingham, UK

The School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Sustainable Urban Development and Design to help develop and deliver our exciting range of postgraduate and professional education in the Urban Planning field. A background in the fields of urban and/or landscape design along with some experience of studio style teaching...

Are you interested in research to understand housing inequality, and motivated to find governance approaches which can support older adult health and wellbeing?

We are looking for a PhD candidate to take part in the research project ‘Housing Governance for Healthy Aging,’ led by Principal Investigators Dr. Sarah Mawhorter and Dr. Sara Özoğul together with Prof. Louise Meijering.

This project investigates the role of housing governance–at the local and national...

Call for Expressions of Interest in Funded PhD Opportunity

Presentation

This book takes a deep dive into the design and planning, and unique challenges of settlements in the European Arctic. Attractive Arctic Cities require job opportunities, good societal and commercial services, and importantly, high-quality built environments in order to thrive. The cities of the European Arctic are generally small and sit in sparsely populated regions, with large travel times between places, making them uniquely challenging from a planning...

Symposium: The political economy of housing production under late neoliberalism

Date: Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd May 2025

Venue: Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, London.

Organisers: Dr Chris Foye (University College London), Dr Edward Shepherd (Cardiff University), and Dr. Lan Deng (University of Michigan).

Contact email: c.foye@ucl.ac.uk

Summary

This 2-day symposium will bring together state-of-the-art...