GAME CHANGER? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions
SCIENCES PO - PARIS - FRANCE // 08.-12.07.2024
Full Programme

Key Dates

24 November 2023
Open call for abstracts
31 January 2024
Deadline for abstracts to be included in the Tracks and Special Session
4 March 2024
Abstract notifications
04 March 2024
Open Early Bird Registration
8 April 2024
Open Full Paper Submission
15 April 2024
Early bird registration deadline
31 May 2024
Full paper submission deadline
31 May 2024
Late registration deadline for presenters
Inclusion in the Conference Scientific Program
14 June 2024
Late registration deadline for participants

PARIS CONGRESS VIDEOS

Venues

Sciences Po | Students
Sciences Po | Students
Sciences Po | Campus interior
Sciences Po | Campus interior
Sciences Po | Campus library
Sciences Po | Campus library
Sciences Po | Campus garden
Sciences Po | Campus garden

Congress General Program

July 8th - July 12th 2024

Monday 8
CoRep meeting, Opening and Welcome Reception
Tuesday 9
Regular Day, YA Assembly, and YA Social Event
Wednesday 10
Regular Day, AESOP General Assembly, Patsy Healy Commemoration, and Gala Dinner
Thursday 11
Regular Day, and Mobile Workshops
Friday 12
Regular Day, Congress Closing, Post Congress tour

AESOP 2024 ANNUAL CONGRESS | TRACKS

The 36th AESOP Annual Congress 2024 addresses the following scientific tracks

Chairs: Peter Ache, Christelle Morel-Journel, Yahya Y.M. Shaker
TRACK 01: POSTGROWTH
Planning for other worlds and different development models
Chairs: Matthieu Gimat, Tuna Tasan Kok, Petra SAMAHA
TRACK 02: MARKETS
Planning for property markets, Financialization, and Private Actors
Chairs: Rachelle Alterman, Florence Lerique, Tristan Claus
TRACK 03: LAW
Planning and legal procedures for land-use and transport policies
Chairs: Alois Humer, Thomas Perrin, Simin Yan
TRACK 04: BORDERS
Transboundary planning for sustainability and cohesion
Chairs: Benjamin Buettner, Patricia Lejoux, Enrica Papa, Dakota McCarty
TRACK 05: MOBILITY
Planning for mobility: accessibility, affordability and sustainability
Chairs: Enrico Gualini, Joel Idt, Donato Casavola
TRACK 06: GOVERNANCE
Planning and democracy: decisions, actors, partnerships and conflicts
Chairs: Mauriel Maillefert, Francesco Musco, Subhashree Nath
TRACK 07: ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE
Planning for resilience, sustainability, climate change and the environment
Chairs: Dimitra Kanellopoulou, Christine Mady, Margherita Gori Nocentini
TRACK 08: PUBLIC SPACE
Planning for cultural diversity, peace and the experience of places
Chairs: Stefano Cozzolino, Anita De Franco, Stefano Moroni, Christine Lelévrier, Stefano Moroni, Dalila Sicomo
TRACK 09: INCLUSION
Planning for Fair, Plural, and Welcoming Cities
Chairs: Jean Michel Roux, Joanne Tippett, Lisa Marie Brunner
TRACK 10: EDUCATION
Interdisciplinary planning education: challenges, dialogues, innovations
Chairs: Massimo Bricocoli, Bruno Marot, Francesca Ferlicca
TRACK 11: HOUSING
Planning for affordable cities and new models of living
Chairs: Tijana Dabovic, Dimitri Toubanos, Abdallah Jreij
TRACK 12: FUTURING
Planning as a game-changer: utopias, scenarios and narratives vs tools, actions, politics of change
Chairs: Ben Davy, Xavier Desjardins, Luciano Pana Tronca
TRACK 13: THEORIES
Planning Theories as Gamechanger?
Chairs: Divya Leducq, Chandrima Mukhopadhyay, Marcela Alonso Ferreira
TRACK 14: POLICY MOBILITY
Planning models, circulation and learning across boundaries
Chairs: Clément Orillard, Olivier Sykes, Yi Xin, Aslı Ulubaş Hamurcu
TRACK 15: HISTORIES
Knowledge exchanges in urban developments from a historical perspective
Chairs: Daniel Florentin, Michele Campagna, SaeBom Song
TRACK 16: NETWORKS AND DATA
Planning and socio-technical systems, digital methods and technologies
Chairs: Lionel Prigent, Ward Rauws, Daniel Zwangsleitner, Rumeysa Ceylan
TRACK 17: RISKS
Planning for adaptive capacity: disasters, uncertainty, long-term problems, preparedness and responsiveness
Chairs: Martine Drozdz, Stefanie Dühr, Sila Ceren Varis Husar
TRACK 18 ACTORS' CONSTELLATIONS
Public, private and third-sector actors in planning processes

SPECIAL SESSIONS

These are the specials sessions organised at the 36th AESOP Annual Congress 2024.

Organizers: Carola Hein, Mina Akhavan
New Territoriality
European Port Cities in Transition
Organizers: Loris Antonio Servillo, Alois Humer, Christophe Demaziere
Beyond 'left behindness'
Understanding The Role of Small and Medium Size Towns for territorial innovation
Chairs: Eva Kassens-Noor, Meng Cai
Can intelligence be sustainable?
A discussion on how and why cities transform through artificial intelligence and their associated technologies
Organizers: Sara Caramaschi, Robin A. Chang
Doing Justice to Time-Sensitive Urbanisms?
Challenging Semantics, Symbols, Policies, and Politics in Making-Do and Sense-Making
Organizers: Reinventing Cities Observatory
Ecological transition as a (planning) game changer?
Questioning Reinventing Cities and similar competitions
Organizers: Emeline Hatt, Flavia Giallorenzo, Alex Deffner
Exploring Alternatives to Tourism and Alternative Tourism
Organizers: Keito Hattori, Jan Polivka
International comparison of shrinking city policies
Their accomplishments and struggles
Organizers: Tanja Mölders, Ulrike Sturm
It`s just about gender
Socio-ecological transformation from gender and intersectional perspectives
Organizers: Federica Gatta, Ianira Vassallo, Juliet Davis, Neil Turnbull
(Un)care and austerity
Learning from new urban care commoning practices and policies
Organizers: Pauline Jegen, Arta Bytyqi
(IN)FINITE EARTH: Accelerating Circular Transition of Urban Environments through Construction Practices
This Special Session is hosted within Track 1
Organizers: Enrica Papa, Benjamin Buttner
The 15 Minutes City
This Special Session is hosted within Track 5
Organizers: M. Susana Orta-Ortiz, Yuanzao Zhu
Transformative change in spatial planning for biodiversity: insights from innovative planning policies and practices
This Special Session is hosted within Track 7
Organizers: Yankel Fijalkow, Yaneira Wilson
Housing, health and policies
This Special Session is hosted within Track 11
Organizers: Martijn Van den Hurk, Jan Boon
Representing future and fictitious cities and infrastructures: the accountability and power of visualizations
This Special Session is hosted within Track 12
Organizer: Thorsten Wiechmann
The Future of Planning: What are we facing and how do we prepare?
This Special Session is hosted within Track 12
Organizers: Stefanie Dühr, Magdalena Belof
Urban planning and local democracy in the age of consultocracy
This Special Session is hosted within Track 18
Organizers: Cristina Renzoni, Holger Jahnke
Educational infrastructure between spatial planning and territorial governance: a multiscalar perspective

ROUNDTABLES

Join one of the following roundtables during the 36th AESOP Annual Congress 2024.

Organizers: Enza Lissandrello, Nacima Baron, Marcus Zepf
Unlocking the Future of Planning
Knowledge, Action, and Reflection for Urban Sustainability, Health, and Well-being of Future Cities and Territories
Organizer: Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot
Shrinking cities research: lessons learned and ways forward
Shrinking cities, urban decline, demographic change
Organizers: Federica Scaffidi, Sara Özogul
UGoveRN
Governance and urban regeneration for sustainable communities
Organizers: Xiaoxia Zhang, Moritz Maikämper
Participatory processes
Their impact analyses in urban (re)development: obstacles and perspectives (ARL)
Organizers: Gérard Hutter, Thorsten Wiechmann
Temporality in Planning Thought
Ideas for Strengthening the Temporal Dimension in Research, Education and Practice
Organizer: Ceren Sezer, Eugenio Morello
Built Environment education
The practice for climate resilience and action: tools, capacities and challenges
Organizers: Camilla Perrone, Stefano Borgo
Reframing “Territory” with the help of Applied Ontology
A contribution to the foundations of planning theory.
Organizers: Simonetta Armondi, Fabiano Compagnucci, Carlo Salone
New Geographies of Logistics
Power, Planning and Policy Tools
Organizers: Carola Hein, Alankrita Sarkar, John Hanna
Planning Future Histories
Lessons from European Metropolitan Region
Organizers: Frederique Hanotier
Shifting the power at local level
A game changer
Organizers: Katie McClymont, Hannah Hickman
Planning professionalism and re-building trust in a post-truth era
Organizers: Christian Lamker
Post-Growth Planning – Transformation or Revolution?
This Roundtable is hosted within Track 1
Organizers: Yahya Y.M. Shaker, Elena Todella, Fiona Imami, Erblin Berisha
Just Green Transitions: Transforming or Transitioning to What?
This Roundtable is hosted within Track 7
Organizers: Ombretta Caldarice, Filippo Magni
Three Characters in Search for an Author. Sustainability, resilience and transition in spatial planning research and practices
This Roundtable is hosted within Track 7
Organizers: Nicholas Marantz, Paavo, Monkkonnen
Combating Housing Discrimination in France and the United States
This Roundtable is hosted within Track 11
Organizers: Camilla Perrone, Peter Ache
Futuring the European Metropolitan Region under the change– between strategic positioning and everyday lifeworlds
This Roundtable is hosted within Track 12
Organizers: Benjamin Davy, Stefano Cozzolino
European Values and Spatial Planning
This Roundtable is hosted within Track 13
Organizers: Heike Köckler, Thomas Verbeek
Urban Planning for Health Equity
This Roundtable is hosted within Track 17

EVENING EVENTS

Participate in one of evening events during the 36th AESOP Annual Congress 2024.

Organizers: Dominic Stead, Giancarlo Cotella, Nuno Marques da Costa, Jonathan Metzger
Sustainable Land-Use and Mobility Policies and Practices in Urban Regions
A research agenda on institutional arrangements
Organizers: Robin A. Chang, Fabio Bayro Kaiser, Stefano Cozzolino
TIME/LESS
Sensing, Designing, Planning
Organizers: Izabela Mironowicz, Federico Savini
Cities beyond growth now
Tomorrow will be too late
Organizer: Benjamin Davy
Planning Theories in the Deleted Lands
Organizers: Davide Ponzini, Laura Lieto, Matteo Basso, Zachary Mark Jones
Transnational Urban Projects within Cultural Heritage Areas
Exploring assemblages, intersections, and transformations
Organizers: Gustavo Lopes dos Santos, Eva Kassens-Noor
The city as a transitioning stage
Leveraging mega-events for sustainable development?
Organizers: Subhashree Nath, Abhijeet Chandel
Shifting the paradigm
Redefining the power dynamics in South-North collaborations
Organizers: Aseem Inam, Charlotte Lemanski
"Co-Designing Publics"

FRENCH CUISINE

Brown bag lunch seminars on research and policies: everyday from 12:30 till 14:00.

Organisers: Hélène Peskine, Aziza Akhmouch, Emmanuelle Cosse
Housing research to policies?
Organiser: Nicolas Bauquet
The last plan for the regional city
Organizers: The French and British Planning Studies Group (FBPSG), Xavier Desjardins Sorbonne
Planning Reform in England and France: A Tale of Two Systems
Conversation with Tommaso Vitale, dean Urban School
Wars and peace: what universities can do?
Organisers: Dennis Boquet, Laura Lieto, Olivier Sykes, Sophie Didier
Garbage and perish?
Organisers: Patricia Pelloux, Emeline Hatt
Reinventing land in Paris
Organisers: Agnès Bastin, Benjamin Cadranel, Bertand Vallet
How do evaluate a new neighbourhood?
Organiser: Coubertin Research Program
Paris Olympic, Rearguard action or new method: Designing Games for the legacy?
Organisers: Charlotte Halpern, Eric Charmes, Tjark Gall
Density and mobility?
Organisers: Anne-Claire Mialot, Aude Débreil, Ivan Tosics
Ecological transition and Housing inequalities
Organisers: Maryam Amarouche, Ion Maleas, Magda Maaoui, Nicholas Marantz, Paavo, Monkkonnen
Combating Housing Discrimination in France and the United States
Organisers: Jean Guiony, Candice Pigeard, Maire Llorente
Living soils? The containement of urban France

CONGRESS FEE

2024, Paris
Early Bird Late Fee
1 AESOP Member 470 500
2 AESOP Member Discounted 380 430
3 AESOP Member Student Fee 290 350
4 Non-AESOP Member 550 600
5 Non-AESOP Member Discounted 450 510
6 Non-AESOP Member Student Fee 370 430
7 PhD Workshop AESOP Member 330 430
8 PhD Workshop Non-AESOP Member 430 520
9 One-day participation 200 260
10 Accompanying person fee 200 260
11 All keynote lectures + online sessions 160 200
12 Congress Dinner (limited places) 100 150
13 Welcome Reception 0 0
14 Mobile Workshop 0 0

Keynote Speakers

/Sabine%20Barles
Paris Sorbonne
Sabine Barles
Professeure des universités en Aménagement de l'espace
/Claire%20Colomb
Cambridge University
Claire Colomb
Professor of Land Economy
/Alex%20Deffner
University of Thessaly
Alex Deffner
Professor of Urban and Leisure Planning at the Department of Planning and Regional Development
/Emmanuel%20Grégoire
City of Paris
Emmanuel Grégoire
First deputy mayor, in charge of town planning, architecture and Greater Paris
/Michael%20Storper
UCLA + LSE
Michael Storper
Distinguished Professor of Regional and International Development in Urban Planning
/Christophe%20Demazière
Université de Lille
Christophe Demazière
Professor at University of Lille, studies territorial development, small city development and comparative analysis of planning systems
/Hélène%20Mainet
Université de Clermont Auvergne
Hélène Mainet
Professor of Geography and Urban Planning
/Sylvy%20Jaglin
Latts Université Gustave Eiffel
Sylvy Jaglin
Professor of Urban Planning, specializes in Urban and African Studies
/Eric%20Verdeil
Sciences Po
Eric Verdeil
Professor, Director of the Master Program in Urban and territorial strategies, CERI
/Patrick%20Le%20Galès
Sciences Po
Patrick Le Galès
CNRS research professor
/Tuna%20Tasan%20Kok
Amsterdam University
Tuna Tasan Kok
Professor of Urban Governance and Planning with a background in urban social geography and planning

LOC

The Local Organising Committee

/Marco%20Cremaschi
Sciences Po
Marco Cremaschi
Professor, Director of the Master Program in Urban Planning, CEE, Chair
/Eleonora%20Russo
Sciences Po
Eleonora Russo
General Secretary, CEE, Co-Deputy Chair of the LOC, Coordination of the Event, Finance and Operations Administrator
/Ilaria%20Milazzo
Sciences Po
Ilaria Milazzo
Executive Director, Urban School, Co-Deputy Chair of the LOC, registration, internal affairs
/Jérôme%20Baratier
Sciences Po
Jérôme Baratier
Adjunct professor Urban Management
/Florence%20Faucher
Sciences Po
Florence Faucher
Professor, director of the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics
/Charlotte%20Halpern
Sciences Po
Charlotte Halpern
Senior research fellow, director of the Executive Master Gouvernance territoriale et développement urbain
/Sukriti%20Issar
Sciences Po
Sukriti Issar
Associate professor, director of the Master program Governing the large metropolis
/Patrick%20Le%20Galès
Sciences Po
Patrick Le Galès
CNRS research professor
/Giacomo%20Parrinello
Sciences Po
Giacomo Parrinello
Research fellow, director of the Master program Governing Ecological Transitions in European cities
/Champaka%20Rajagopal
Sciences Po
Champaka Rajagopal
Adjunct professor Urban Planning (India)
/Tommaso%20Vitale
Sciences Po
Tommaso Vitale
Dean, Urban School
/Eric%20Verdeil
Sciences Po
Eric Verdeil
Professor, Director of the Master Program in Urban and territorial strategies, CERI
Sciences Po
UGA