AESOP newsletter - March 2023

Registration for the 35th AESOP 2023 Annual Congress Lodz is now open!

Please note that early bird registration deadline is April 30th, 2023!

To register please click here: https://aesop-planning.eu/register-now

For more information concerning registration fees please click here: https://aesop-planning.eu/registration-fees

Please note that more information regarding the congress will be continually updated on the congress...

AESOP is looking for member schools willing to host the 18th AESOP Heads of Schools Meeting in 2024.

Application Guidelines for hosting AESOP 2024 Heads of Schools Meeting
AESOP member institutions interested in hosting AESOP Heads of Schools Meeting are kindly asked to send their applications before the 19 June, 2023 to the Secretary General (secretariat@aesop-planning.eu).

The Election will take place in the CoRep Meeting,...

AESOP would like to thank and acknowledge the National University ‘Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic’, Ukraine that hosted the 2023 AESOP Head of Schools Meeting at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia.

We wish to thank the Local Organising Committee, in particular Vadim Vadimov, Anna Ageicheva, Nataliia Maksiuta and Oleksii Yehorchenkov for their flexibility, resilience and hard work.

We also wish to thank our colleagues from STU,...

We are pleased to announce that the AESOP Council of Representatives has elected Maria Håkansson as the new AESOP President (2024 – 2026).

Maria is Associate Professor at KTH Architecture and the Built Environment, Sweden and has been a very active member of the AESOP Community for many years. Maria will join the AESOP Executive Committee as Vice President on 1 August 2023, she will then assume the role as President on 1 August 2024. The election was held at the AESOP...

We are pleased to announce that the AESOP Council of Representatives have selected Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey as the host of AESOP 2025 Congress and PhD workshop!

Congratulations to the Yildiz Technical University Local Organising Committee. We are looking forward to our visit in July 2025!

We are pleased to announce that the AESOP Council of Representatives has elected Tijana Dabović, as the new Chair of the Excellence in Education Board (EEB) (2023 – 2026).

Tijana is Associate Professor at the University of Belgrade, Serbia and has sat on the EBB since 2018.

The election was held at the AESOP Council of Representatives Meeting, on 31 March 2023. The Chair of EEB will continue to develop and lead the EEB and the QR initiative of AESOP. Tijana...

We are pleased to announce that the AESOP Council of Representatives has elected Elisabetta Vitale Brovarone, as the new Chair of the Best Published Paper Award Committee (2023 – 2028).

Elisabetta is Associate Professor at Politechnico Di Torino, Italy.

The election was held at the AESOP Council of Representatives Meeting, on 31 March 2023. Elisabetta has sat on the Best Published Paper Award Committee since 2022.

AESOP would also like to express a special acknowledgement...

There will be an online lecture on 'International Planning Education' by Paulo Silva on 14th April at 2:00pm GMT. This is the second lecture of a series. 

Here is the meeting invite:

Topic: AESOP TG GLOBAL S/E

Time: Apr 14, 2023 14:00 London

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Annual conference of TG on Ethics, Values & Planning

Breaking through ‘conformorality’ in urban and regional studies (14 & 15 September 2023, Dortmund)

The conference takes its inspiration from The Grievance Studies Affair (2017/2018), a controversial experiment in which three researchers, using pseudonyms, published bizarre articles without scientific evidence but conforming to conventional, broadly accepted moral views. The...

The Ph.D. program in Urban Planning at Sapienza University in Rome, in collaboration with Tracce Urbane network, proposes a seminar with the title: Ecological transition: where is it going? Ecology, economics, and urban planning between European Green Deal and Post-Growth paradigms

After decades of austerity politics, so-called post-crisis measures such as ‘Next Generation EU’ and, before that, the ‘European Green Deal’ (substantiated e.g., through...

“Mountains of Opportunities”

A Summer Course for Young Professionals and Students on Spatial Planning and Territorial Governance on the Fringe of Mountain Areas

01 – 04 July 2023 in Avignon (FR)

ARL European Working Group AlpPlan (alpine spatial planning network) organizes an international summer course for Young Professionals and Students on “Spatial Planning and Territorial Governance on the Fringe of Mountain Areas”. In a new...

Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow and the Planning Schools Forum are excited to announce that from Monday 17th April 2023 we will start accepting abstracts for the UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2023 “Planning on a Crisis Footing”, which will take place the University of Glasgow from Monday 4th September – Wednesday 6th September 2023.

We will be inviting submissions for paper abstracts, roundtable...

CoPED 2023: RE-IMAGINE South Messina

Call for Applications

Are you a graduate student or an early career researcher with an interest in socially just and ecological community development?

Joining CoPED will allow you to be part of a transdisciplinary and participatory action-research team that, for 10 days, will collaborate with a coalition of civic groups and activists from Southern District of the City of Messina. The team will work on a regeneration...

CENTRALITY in the AGE of DISPERSION

Human settlement has always evolved around centres. Be it ancient Greek polis or 20th  century neighbourhoods – each of them focused various human activities and formed a specific node  in the geographical space. Changes in settlement structures were considered to be hierarchical and evolutionary. Those natural concentration mechanisms are undermined by various dispersion processes, having multiscalar and temporal...

It is time again for a free and non-commercial ARL photo contest - this time on the occasion of the 2023 ARLCongress  “Towards a viable and mobile future”!

The ARL is looking for your personal view on a socially just and ecologically responsible mobility – a multi-layered theme and we are excited to receive your impressions, illustrations and ideas, but also your criticism and perspective on contradictions!

What does mobility have to...

The School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy has an international reputation as a centre of excellence for research and teaching in a multidisciplinary School ranked in the QS top 150. It has established a wide international network of research collaborators, and delivers a dual degree programme with Chang’an University, China. The School’s Faculty have established reputations for both research excellence and the transfer of research to policy impact and...

Leibniz University Hannover strives for universality, diversity and interdisciplinarity. With more than 28,000 students, three Clusters of Excellence, 5,000 members of staff, over 150 institutes and an outstanding infrastructure, Leibniz University Hannover offers an innovative environment for top-level education and research in a comprehensive range of subjects.

In a joint appointment procedure, the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL) and...

Technische Universität Berlin (TU  Berlin), Germany we are putting out a search for a full professorship in "Spatial Planning and Regional Development”.  

Application deadline is April 16, 2023.

Further details can be found here: https://jobs.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/offers/153847/ 

At the Technical Faculty of IT and Design, Department of Planning a three-year fixed-term position as Assistant Professor in sustainable urban planning is open for appointment from August 1st, 2023, or soon hereafter. The position is an Assistant professor in the Planning for Urban Sustainability (PLUS) research group at the Department of Planning. As an Assistant professor, you are expected to develop your own research agenda within the broad field of Sustainable Urban Planning...