AESOP newsletter - December 2022

Dear AESOP Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the AESOP Head of Schools (HoS) Meeting 2023 will take place on 24 March 2023. The Executive Committee (ExCo) meeting will take place on 22 March and the Council of Representatives Meeting on 23 March.

Over the recent months AESOP ExCo has worked closely with the Local Organising Committee of the HoS host the National University "Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”, Ukraine. The CoRep which met on 25 July, 2022...

Call for the position of AESOP President is now open!

According to Article 23 lit. c of the AESOP Charter the mandatory period of the President is two years. The election takes place one year before the beginning of the mandatory period. During this year, the elected President occupies the position of the Vice President. Having completed the mandatory period, the President moves to the position of the Vice President for a period of one year.
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The call for hosting the 2025 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 1 February 2023. 

The decision will be made by the Council of Representatives at the meeting which will take place during the AESOP 2023 Head of Schools meeting on 23 March, 2023. 

The candidates must prepare a 10-minute presentation of...

AIM OF THE 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 in teaching in its Member Schools. The broad aim of the Prize is to stimulate the...

AESOP is looking for candidates for the Chair of the AESOP Best Published Paper Award Committee (2023 – 2028).

The Chair of the Best Published Paper Award Committee is responsible for organizing the work of the committee, managing contacts with journal editors, coordinating the evaluation of nominated articles, drafting material for the Best Published Paper Award website and presenting the results of the evaluation during the AESOP Annual Congress. According to...

AESOP is looking for candidates for the Chair of the AESOP Excellence in Education Board (2023 – 2026)

The Chair will be responsible for the overall coordination of the Board, for managing the Quality Recognition Program and in particular to guarantee the quality and transparency of the assessment processes for awarding the AESOP CERTIFICATE OF QUALITY.

According to the AESOP Charter (Art. 16e) the Chair of the AESOP Excellence in Education Board is...

AESOP is looking for candidates willing to organize the 19th AESOP Lecture Series in 2023. 

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...

Quality Recognition (QR) is a programme for continual quality support based on voluntary grounds, peer support and sharing of best practices for the improvement of teaching and pedagogy to safeguard the quality of planning education reflecting the changing requirements on AESOP member schools.

The call for QR applications 2022-23 is open until 20 January.

For more details on how to apply please visit the website via this link: https://aesop-planning.eu/activities/quality-recognition/how-to-apply

Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning is AESOP's international peer-reviewed open-access journal. It aims at promoting excellence and pluralism in planning education and research and supports and disseminates scholarly work of the highest quality covering the whole spectrum of the planning discipline. In keeping with these values, the journal follows a completely open access model with no article processing charges and it is listed in the...

New Book: International Planning Studies - An Introduction, Olivier Sykes, Dave Shaw (University of Liverpool) and Brian Webb (Cardiff University/Prifysgol Caerdydd), Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

This new book provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolving field of international planning studies. It situates planning as an international discipline and practice with an important role to play in delivering sustainable development across...

«The European City: a practice of resilience in the face of an uncertain future»

22–24 JUNE 2023 – University of Iceland, Reykjavík

European Urban Research Association (EURA) CONFERENCE

The EURA 2023 conference aims to encourage critical reflection on the resilience of the European city in the face of an uncertain future. The last decade has increasingly left us with an growing feeling of uneasiness and uncertainty. Cities have in many...

THE SEVENTEENTH ABERCROMBIE LECTURE Spatial Planning Reimagined – Rekindling the founding spirit for the future.

To be presented by Dr Wei Yang FAcSS FRTPI MCIHT Chair, Wei Yang & Partners CEO, Digital Task Force for Planning.

Dr Wei Yang is an internationally renowned town planner and urban designer who champions a place-based whole systems approach to tackle the grand challenges of our times. She is an influential thought leader and a powerful advocate for climate...

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to submit a paper for the special issue CONTESTI 1 | 2023 WASTELANDS. Recycling urban spaces for the shrinking city edited by Francesco Gastaldi (Università Iuav di Venezia) & Federico Camerin (Universidad UVA de Valladolid-Universidad Politécnica de Madrid-Grupo de Investigación en Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Sostenibilidad) (https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/contesti).

This...

New Book: Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning

Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.

Characterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and the basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to flourish and protect spaces of collective autonomy from capitalist encroachment. In...