Within the Regions in Recovery Building. Sustainable Futures - Global E-Festival, 2nd-18th June 2021, the Thematic Group Public Space and Urban Culture has been invited to organize and chair the SS44. AESOP V – What’s going on in Public Spaces and Urban Cultures? Updates on Current Research, Policy and Practice
The SS44. AESOP V session, held on June 15 from 10:00 am to 18:00 pm CEST is divided into three sub-sessions:
*SS44 I AESOP. Struggles Around Inclusive Public Space: Gender, Care and Safety*
Tuesday, June 15, 10:00 AM – 12:00 AM CEST
Chair: Tihomir Viderman, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany
Stefania Ragozino | National Research Council of Italy
CaSa.Di. Women’s Network for an Inclusive Place-Making
Giuliana Di Mari | Politecnico di Torino
What Diversity Wants: The 'W' Point
Karina Landman | University of Pretoria
Unravelling the Fluidity of Identity in Public Spaces in South Africa through an Adaptation of the Genius Loci
Giulia Luciani | University of Rome La Sapienza
Ca.Sa. - Ca.re and Sa.fety, Feeling at Home in Urban Spaces
*SS44 II AESOP. Infrastructure of Inclusive Public Spaces*
Tuesday, June 15, 13:00 PM – 15:00 PM CEST
Chair: Christine Mady, Notre Dame University-Louaize, Lebanon
Antonio Coviello | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IRISS)
The Sarno Riverscape: Opportunities for Environmental Remediation and Economic Development at Local, Regional, and European Scales
Łukasz Drozda | University of Warsaw
Pandemic Urbanism from a Global Perspective: Between Urban Policy and Design
Anubhav Goyal | University of Lisbon
Flood Resilience in Urban Slums: Learning from Dharavi
Andreas Savvides | University of Cyprus
Regeneration of Enclaved and Underutilized Industrial Areas in the Urban Core - a Report from Cyprus
Dana Taplin | NYC Department of Environmental Protection
The Optimism of the Urban Landscape Park: Examples from Brooklyn and Boston
*SS44 III AESOP. The Making of Inclusive Public Spaces*
Tuesday, June 15, 16:00 PM – 18:00 PM CEST
Chair: Stefania Ragozino, National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development, Italy
Giulia Ciliberto| CNR-IRISS National Research Council of Italy
Prima-Vera Campana and Migrants’ Access to Social Services: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Foster the Enjoyment of their Socio-Economic Rights
Beatrice Galimberti | Politecnico di Milano
Public Spaces within Uncertainty: Exploring the Antifragile Strategies of Contemporary Design Processes to Discuss our Present Time
Aseem Inam| Cardiff University
Co-Designing Publics
Kundani Makakavhule|University of Pretoria
The Meaning of Democratic Public Space in South Africa: Going Beyond the Critique
Description
Regions and cities appear to have been shaped through responses to a series of challenges and crises, including health or climate hazards, interruptions in economic growth, political upheavals or social transformations. Urban scholars and policy-makers frequently observe and engage with public spaces as arenas which embody both the challenges and responses. The challenges have been articulated in themes such as accessibility, healthy living, democracy, justice, social movements. Against a seemingly bleak outlook, public spaces and urban cultures also nurture optimistic responses. ‘The New Urban Agenda’, adopted by the UN-Habitat Conference, Habitat III, promotes public space as a key ingredient of ‘inclusive, connected, safe and accessible’ cities (UN Habitat, 2016).
This special session on “What’s going on in public spaces and urban cultures? Updates on current research, policy and practice” asks how public spaces can inform research, policy and practice towards creating ‘inclusive, connected, safe and accessible’ cities.
Contributions are invited, but are not limited to address one of the following topics:
- Changing typologies and roles of players and actors: multiplicity of publics and public space cultures, arenas for rebuilding participation
- Public spaces and changes: climate change, social movements, circular economy;
- Changing needs and roles: homelessness, refugees, immigrants and integration, age, gender, social, cultural, ethnic and religious considerations and urban justice;
- Questioning the global north-south divide and public space dynamics;
- Changing role of public spaces in political conflict zones;
- Changing environmental awareness: public space as a buffer zone, contribution to public health (mental and physical well-being);
- Changing intangible cultural heritage: adapting the genius loci to multiple and dynamic cultural identities;
- The impact of technological innovation on public space research and practice.
The E-Festival includes a rich program accessible here
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