CONGRESS PROGRAMME

The programme components of the 37th AESOP Annual Congress 2025 Istanbul, Türkiye

Programme at a Glance
Tracks
Special Sessions
RoundTables
Publishing Events
Istanbul Sessions

ROUNDTABLES

Join one of the following roundtables during the 37th AESOP Annual Congress 2025.

Organizer: Piotr Lorens
Co-creating the 15-minute city
This Roundtable is hosted within Track 3
Organizers: Olivier Sykes, Ela Babalik,
What is new in Comparative international planning: Why, What, and How?
Organizers: Ana Peric, Erhan Kurtarir, Marco Pütz
Rethinking Democratic Urban Planning: Reflecting on Equitable and Ethical Approaches for the Multi-Crisis Era
Organizer: Neelakshi Joshi
Radical alternatives to climate urbanism: towards socially and ecologically just cities
This Roundtable is hosted within Track 1
Organizers: Federica Scaffidi, Mina Di Marino, Andresa Ledo Marques
Circularity and/or Sustainability? Imagining Transformative Strategies and Actions for the Urban Transition
Organizer: Elena Ostanel, Giusy Pappalardo, Nadia Caruso
Learning through instituting.Impacts of civic action on institutions and the potential for the production of public value in planning
Organizers: Laura Sobral, Androniki Pappa
City-Making Beyond Crisis Management: Toward Just Urban Policies
Organizer: Gérard Hutter
Strategies for increasing heat resilience in cities – Where do we go from here in planning research and practice?
Organizers: Grazia Concilio, Daniele Viarengo, Zintis Hermansons
Integrating Digital Transition and Territorial Development: A Co-Evolutionary Approach
Organizers: Hendrik Weiner, Renée Tribble, Sinah Hackenberg
Urban Living Labs in Education – Hybrid and transformative settings for collaborative learning and research in cities and regions
This Roundtable is hosted within Track 8
Organizers: Frank Schwartze, Mayer Vivienne
Roundtable on Co-Production of Knowledge for Transformative Action
This Roundtable is hosted within Track 8
Organizers: Christopher Maidment, Martin Sondermann
Beyond the Process: Difficulties for theorisation within planning research and practice
This Roundtable is hosted within Track 8
Christopher Maidment, Michael Lennon
Fundamental? Or best forgotten? Contemporary perspectives on the public interest
Organizer: Nataliia Yehorchenkova
Project management in cross-border initiatives: practices, challenges and opportunities
Organizers: Hannah Hickman, Mark Oranje
Planning professionalism and re-building trust in a post-truth era
Organizer: Barbara Pizzo
Post-Growth, or The Return to the Fabulous Fifties? Evidence of Fundamental Contradictions between Theory and Practice of Planning
This Roundtable is hosted within Track 1
Organizers: William Hynes, Razgar Ebrahimy, Aoife Doyle
Demonstrating the Application of Digital Twins in Urban Planning: Ensuring Citizen Centric Impact
Organizers: Grazia Brunetta, Giancarlo Cotella, Danial Mohabat Doost
Territorial Resilience in a Transformative Planning Approach
Organizers: Francesco Chiodelli, Stefano Moroni
City, diversity and toleration: the legal and political geography of pluralism
Organizers: Chandrima Mukhopadhyay, Giusy Papalardo
AESOP-India Planning Exchange: Towards Global North-South relation in knowledge production
Organizers: Camilla Perrone, Peter Ache
Coping with uncertainties and the poly-crisis within Europe: The Metropolitan arena
Organizers: Paolo De Martino, Denis Maragno
Living with water at the time of multi-risk conditions
Organizers: Serap Kayasü, Middle East Technical University Sıla Ceren Varış Husar, Burcu Halide Çıngı Özüduru, Deniz Altay Kaya,
Neighborhoods for Transformative Action
Organizers: Valeria Fedeli, Camilla Perrone
Has the pandemic boosted innovation? Urban transitions after the Covid transition
Organizers: Nuno Travasso, Ebru Kurt-Özman
UGoveRN: From Policy to Practice: Innovative Regulatory Tools for Addressing the Affordable Housing Crisis
Organizers: Tijana Dabovic, Ben Clifford, Yiğit Evren, Doruk Özügül, Marco Picone, Patrick Witte, Juliana Martins, Anna Kaczorowska,
AESOP Quality Recognition (QR) Programme: A European Planning Education Platform for Transformative Reflections, Learning and Action
This Roundtable is hosted within Track 8
Organizers: Christian Lamker, Astrid Krisch, Lucas Barning
Transformations to post-growth – Positions, perspectives, and prospects for people and planet
This Roundtable is hosted within Track 1