AESOP newsletter - February 2023

On behalf of AESOP we send out condolences, sympathy and encouragement to the people affected by the devastating earthquake on 6 February 2023. 

We stand in solidarity with our colleagues and their families affected by this tragedy

AESOP ExCo
(based on an initiative of the AESOP TG Public Spaces and Urban Cultures)

Registration is open for the 17th AESOP Heads of Schools Meeting 2023! Please click here to register

The event will be hosted by National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic», Ukraine at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava from 22 - 24 March 2023

Participation at the Head of Schools Meeting will be in person and online. On behalf of the LOC and the AESOP Executive Committee we hope to see you in person in Bratislava!

Programme:

Wednesday...

The call for hosting the 2025 AESOP Congress is now open! All Full and Associate AESOP Member institutions are warmly encouraged to apply.

The extended deadline for the submission of bids is 20 March 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...

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...

Curious to explore and discuss the interrelation between urban design and justice?

The AESOP TG on Ethics, Values and Planning invites you to join a vivid (online) debate on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, from 5 to 6 pm (CET) with Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Vinit Mukhija, editors of the book “Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City” (2022,...

As part of the Association of the European Schools of Planning, Thematic Group on Public Spaces and Urban Cultures theme on ‘Public Spaces, Urban Cultures and Constructing Peace’, we are pleased to invite you to contribute and participate in the TG PSUC Meeting Helsinki, co-organised by Aalto University, 15 to 16 May 2023 in Helsinki. The event includes visits to libraries in Helsinki, discussions with various stakeholders, working sessions and presentations.

Considering...

2023

Date: 16th-17th May

Title: AESOP TG PSUC Workshop Helsinki “Public libraries as generators of peace”

Institution: Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

Local organizers: Christine Mady, Hossam Hewidy

AESOP TG Representatives: Ebba Högström (Sweden), Matej Niksic (Slovenia)

Contacts: christine.mady@aalto.fi, hossam.hewidy@aalto.fi

Date: 6 November

Title: AESOP...

Meike Levin-Keitel (TU Dortmund University), Franziska Sielker (TU Wien/University of Cambridge), and Ben Davy (TU Dortmund University/University of Johannesburg), as the co-coordinators of the AESOP Thematic Group Planning Theories (plural), invite you to the online conference BEG, STEAL, OR BORROW.

Program here.

For the Zoom link, please register not later than 14 March at srf@tuwien.ac.at

Dear WUC Research and Academia Partner Constituency Group (RAPCG) members:

We hope everything is going well at your end. This time we have 4 news items to share with you:

1 The deadline for Urban Thinkers Campus 8.0 proposals is coming soon: the 26th of this month.  Proposals for events during 2023 may be in-person, virtual or hybrid, and must relate to The City We Need Now  https://www.worldurbancampaign.org/tcwn.  Proposers must...

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are delighted to announce that the call for abstracts is now open for the LAND4FLOOD Conference 2023 “Land for flood risk management and resilience”, to be held 27-29 September 2023, in Dortmund, Germany. This conference is organized in cooperation with IWRA.

We invite partners from our scientific community, as well as policy makers, water managers, spatial planners, lawyers, and other stakeholders involved in spatial flood risk...

BACKGROUND & PURPOSE

This call aims at the collection of paper proposals to be included in the “Handbook on the Just Green Transition” that will be proposed for publication to a leading international publisher. The handbook will be open access. The publishing fee is covered by Horizon GreenFORCE project.   

Just Green Transition is now a prominent topic in policy discourse and academic literature as the shift to carbon-neutral technologies has a profound impact for societies, economies...