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Category: Public Spaces and Urban Cultures

Published: 17 July 2019

Annual Report for 2018

Organized by Stefania Ragozino, Burcu Yigit Turan, and Mohamed Saleh, in collaboration with further TG members
During 2018, the group was coordinated by Gabriella Esposito De Vita and Ceren Sezer

Introduction

Public Spaces and Urban Cultures (PSUC) is a thematic group established in April 2010 with the initiative of Sabine Knierbein (Associate Professor, TU Vienna, Austria), Ceren Sezer (Architect and urban planner, TU Delft, Urban 4, Netherlands) and Chiara Tornaghi (Reader, Coventry University, United Kingdom). The main aim of the group is to generate an international and interdisciplinary exchange between the research and practices on public spaces and urban cultures. By doing so, it aims to support research, planning and a design agenda within the AESOP community, and beyond.

In 2018, the Group continued its endeavors to involve practitioners, academics, governmental and non-governmental professionals, and further interest groups into the TG’s activities and exchange of knowledge across disciplines and domains of action through meetings, workshops, conferences and roundtables. During 2018, the group’s membership rose to over 100 professionals working with public space, including practitioners and researchers, from both Europe and beyond. The year 2018 was important as a ‘strengthening year’ because the umbrella topic “Unstable geographies – Dislocated publics” (2016-2018) has been deeply investigated and the new self-organized management group have been operatively managed by active members (see list below).

Internal organization of the group

A collective made up of group members organizes the activities of the PSUC. Some of the tasks of the core group are: to establish the Group’s agenda (working topics, calls, meetings); to manage communication via various media (homepage, blog, Facebook, mailing list, newsletter) among the Group’s members; to prepare meetings and annual reports; to disseminate scientific results; to promote a strong involvement into research and publication affairs; as well as towards a broader audience and the AESOP Secretary General.

The list of members who managed the Group’s activities in 2018 (in alphabetic order):

Katarzyna Bartoszewicz (Poland), Nadia Charalambosu (Cyprus), Gabriella Esposito De Vita (Italy), Sabine Knierbein (Austria/Germany), Elina Kränzle (Austria/Germany), Weronika Mazurkiewicz (Poland), Matej Niksic (Slovenia), Stefania Ragozino (Italy), Nikolai Roskamm (Germany), Mohamed Saleh (Netherlands, Egypt), Sara Santos Cruz (Portugal), Ceren Sezer (Netherlands/Turkey), Tihomir Viderman (Austria/Croatia), Burcu Yigit Turan (Sweden, Turkey).

The list of members who (co-)organized meetings in 2018:

Nadia Charalambous, Sabine Knierbein, Nikolai Roskamm, Ceren Sezer – The Urbanization of (In) Justice. Negotiation of differences in uncertain geographies, University of Cyprus, 16th-18th May, Nicosia, Cyprus

Sara Santos, Ceren Sezer – Re-learning Public Space, An Action Research Event Amsterdam, Amsterdam Metropolitan solutions – AMS and Wageningen University, 28th-30th June, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The list of members who (co-)organized meetings in 2019:

Katharina Höftberger, Sabine Knierbein and Tihomir Viderman - Urban Form, (In)Equality and (In)Justice: Research and Education – TU Wien, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, November, Vienna, Austria

A call for events 2019/2020 will be launched in the month of September in line with the new umbrella topic that will be discussed in July 2019 during the Thematic Group Meeting within the AESOP Annual Congress Venice “Planning for Transition”.

In the framework of the AESOP Annual Congress Venice “Planning for Transition” the TG PSUC is also involved in chairing the Track #15 “Tourism, public spaces and urban cultures”.

Self-organized management group since 2015

Group Coordination

2015-2017 Sabine Knierbein (Austria/Germany) (Main Volunteer), Gabriella Esposito De Vita (Italy) (Secondary Volunteer)

2017-2019 Gabriella Esposito De Vita (Italy) (Main Volunteer), Ceren Sezer (Netherlands/Turkey) (Secondary Volunteer)

2019-2021 Ceren Sezer (Netherlands/Turkey) (Main Volunteer) – to be elected (Secondary Volunteer)

Research Affairs

Sara Santos Cruz (Portugal), Sabine Knierbein (Austria, Germany) and Nikolai Roskamm (Germany) (Main Volunteers), Nadia Charalambous (Cyprus) (Secondary Volunteer)

Public Relations

Burcu Yigit Turan (Sweden, Turkey) (Main Volunteer), Stefania Ragozino (Italy) and Mohamed Saleh (Netherlands, Egypt) (Secondary Volunteers)

Public Liaison

Tihomir Viderman (Austria/Croatia) (Main Volunteer), Elina Kränzle (Austria, Germany) (Secondary Volunteer)

Social Media

Weronika Mazurkiewicz (Poland) (Main Volunteer), Katarzyna Bartoszevicz (Poland), Matej Niksic (Slovenia) (Secondary Volunteers)

Special acknowledgements are extended to Professor Ali Madanipour (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) and Professor Sophie Watson (Open University, UK), who have generously contributed to the group’s meetings with their wide expertise in the fields of public spaces and urban cultures.

During 2018 meetings, a shared intention has emerged to develop an advisory board to support and improve the efforts of the self-organization group. It would include founders, coordinators and external expert volunteers. Within the AESOP Gothenburg Annual Congress and the related TG Meeting a debate has been opened on this topic. It was also discussed how to engage new volunteer experts from countries not yet involved in the activities of the thematic group.

Group’s activities in 2018

This year was entirely dedicated to the development of activities related to the working theme Unstable Geographies – Dislocated Publics (2016-2018) of which the first meeting was organized in November 2016 in Beirut, Lebanon. During 2017, current umbrella theme programmed meetings took place: Wien (Austria, 29th-31st March), Ljubljana (Slovenia, 23rd-26thMay), Lisbon (Portugal, 11th-14thJuly), and Rome (Italy, 11th-13rdDecember). During 2018 organizations have been implemented for events: Nicosia (Cyprus, 16-18th May), Amsterdam (Netherlands, 28th-30th June), and Gothenburg, (Sweden, 10-14thJuly). 

Table of the TG’s current working theme events (2016-2018)

Note: Apart from the general AESOP Annual Conference Meetings, the AESOP TG PSUC has established the policy that all meetings should be free of cost to AESOP TG members and that affordable accommodation proposals are provided by the local host.

In times of open call for hosting an AESOP TG PSUC, group members and other interested parties could submit a proposal for hosting a TG event (conference/call for abstract/call for paper/workshop/meeting) about current themes of the PSUC Thematic Group. This proposal should contain information about timing, place, host institution, concept and issues to deepen.

Once the event has been accepted and scheduled, the working group has been constituted from local members and TG representatives, the working group will work on the call that will be shared with active TG members prior to dissemination in order to start the discussion of themes of relevance and to promote the participation to the event. A finally agreed version of the call will be shawith local and TG network through Social Media and Public Relations TG volunteers.

Consolidating the umbrella topic “Unstable Geographies – Dislocated Publics”

The working theme Unstable Geographies – Dislocated Publics recognizes public spaces, as a manifestation of cities’ different everyday cultures, as valuable social and cultural capital of urban societies. They have increasingly been celebrated as crossroads of different interests, backgrounds, and values, allowing – if not inviting – diverse urban populations to enjoy the fruits of (past) emancipatory struggle(s). A thriving scene of actors and performative practices mainly rooted in the fields of urban design and planning for the city centres and adjacent districts, engages in creating places of everyday life for multiple city publics. This renaissance of diverse public spaces, however, takes place against the bleak backdrop painted by fear and uncertainty now also spilling onto the privileged part of the world, which has found itself overwhelmed by the scale of the recent crisis of capitalism and the increased mobility of refugees and migrants, rendering public spaces important sites of humanitarian aid and protection of human and refugee rights. A response carved out by policymakers and institutions, which has not shied away from morally ambiguous means to put capitalism back on track and curb the influx of (uninvited) people, has shown that the institutions and the order of the West, while building on the achievements of past emancipatory struggles, often sustain hostile practices of exclusion and othering, and is undergoing fundamental shifts as well. A number of initiatives and activists’ movements stand in opposition to neo-colonial, nationalist and xenophobic practices, calling on urban publics and emerging cultures to challenge and rethink the prevailing political and institutional ethics. In the meantime, a strong call for strengthening dialogue and mutual learning between cities and regions of the Global South and of the Global North is gaining momentum in urban research and practice. The Unstable Geographies – Dislocated Publics series combines inclusive urban theory, methods, and practice to promote (post) migrational perspectives between different world regions and their cities. It simultaneously reflects on the changing structural constraints in times of multiple crises in which public space is emphasized in various, partly contradictory ways: social, cultural, ecological, political, and economic. Our standpoint takes public spaces as a key catalyst in the process of accommodating diverse cultural values and meeting basic human needs and rights. Among many salient and urgent issues that need to inform current planning, design, and research communities both in theory and practice, we suggest focusing on four main subtopics:

1. City, refugees, and migration

2. Fragmented social fabric – individualised patterns of consumption

3. The decline of national politics – Resurgence of the urban political

4. Change of perspective – worlding urban studies

Productive steps in 2018

TG meeting, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
NICOSIA MEETING - THE URBANIZATION OF (IN)JUSTICE. NEGOTIATION OF DIFFERENCES IN UNCERTAIN GEOGRAPHIES

The 3 days event combined various formats of exchange including the keynote speeches of both CyNUM and AESOP Public Spaces and Urban Cultures meetings, the contributions to the call for papers in parallel sessions, a field visit/walkshop and a concluding roundtable.

The purpose of the meeting was to unfold, discuss, challenge and rethink prevailing discourses concerning the manifestations of (in)justice in cities’ urban spaces, by taking an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective. As implied in its title, “The Urbanization of (In)Justice: Public Spaces in Uncertain Geographies”, the meeting was conceived as a space of exchange aiming to involve researchers and practitioners alike in a critical and constructive debate on political and intellectual agendas that reflect on the development of socially just urban practices.

The aim of this conference was to share international and interdisciplinary perspectives of public space as a facilitator of (in)just urban transformation processes from various angles based on practical and/or theoretical work on themes such as:

• Public space in relation to urban just and unjust conditions, today and through time

• Public space and equity, public space and diversity, public space and identity, spatiality and power
• Re-thinking public space through the connections between notions of justice, social relations, and spatial form
• Responses to unjust urban patterns in form of emerging practices of self-organization and negotiations of difference in cities’ public spaces
• Role of actors in the production of public space
• Every-day practices of establishing spatial justice and injustice
• Creation of subjectivities in or with public space
• Politics of public space

TG meeting, AMS and Wageningen University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
AMSTERDAM MEETING - RE-LEARNING PUBLIC SPACE, AN ACTION RESEARCH EVENT AMSTERDAM

This meeting welcomed researchers and practitioners from fields such as urban studies, planning, communication studies, geography, architecture, as well as active citizens, policy makers to an exploration that is somewhat out of the ordinary. Along five thematic routes, they were engaged with public spaces in Amsterdam and their challenges. The aim was to develop an alternative city guide that is also addressing questions of empowerment and ownership. The event challenged the traditional academic conference format – rather than having a series of paper presentations, participants will learn, and use their research and daily experiences to reflect on the main challenges that underpin the thematic routes.

Participants traced the stories behind innovative appropriations of public space, identify related dilemmas and formulate research questions. Prior to the event, we liaised with locals to design an alternative city guide inspired by a set of broad, yet timely themes. Participants dwelt on the challenges locals are confronted with, and the interventions they envisioned as potentially enriching the city. When presented with the opportunity to consult a broad, experienced and interested audience, what are the questions they would like to raise? The resulting city guide enabled the event participants to experience local everyday practices through thematic tours, which present alternative narratives of the city.

During the thematic tours, targeted interventions and exercises co-designed with local participants provided opportunities for debate and reflection. How do these interventions ‘perform the place’ and alter/disrupt/enhance relationships? The combination of activities shed light on questions of learning, ownership and empowerment, as well as setting the scene for future explorations and revisions of the alternative city guide. Here, public space is playground in a broad sense – participants learned and reflected by seeking connections with locally active people and designed objects not just as ‘quick’ passers-by, but as observers and participants, and by conducting Action Research. The explorations performed during the conference aimed to unpack the complex character of current and emergent urban challenges, to address those challenges both within community forums and plenary sessions, and to enable further learning and collaborative projects through the use of an open access data platform.

AESOP Annual Congress, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

AESOP Annual Congress 2018 Gothenburg TRACK# 1 “PLACES”

In times of an increased unsettlement of urban routines relating to global restructuring, ecological disaster, social hardship, international migration and a crisis of liberal democracies, urban professionals are now much more confronted in redefining their own positionality in processes of place-making. Places are increasingly tackled as both potential catalysts of growth and creativity, but also for providing the social glue of cities, regions and urbanized areas. There is a lot of hope invested in what local places could contribute to these salient issues – as enabling spaces of different kinds and for different groups.

Considering places as the embodied sphere of everyday life routines, temporalities and contestations creates a conceptual bridge between planners’ reason-based principles and aspects such as affect, passion and the body. Emerging city publics appropriate places to render the city a genuine political project (e.g. insurgent movements, co-creation involving

refugees etc, and public art). Their action often connects to wider demands for the right to the city and the right to housing. As such, places afford people to create interstitial arenas for (re-)politicising what is often taken as common sense in official spaces of planning politics.

Such arenas act as sources of hope towards a just urban future. How can planning approaches account for a hidden potentiality in place-making through more performative approaches in professional praxis and spatial agency? How can urban professionals understand changing forms of (multiple and heterogeneous) place attachment both by newcomers and former residents in processes of planning?

Theoretical, empirical and methodological contributions to the “Places” track ideally deal with salient social pressures, cultural demands, ecological concerns, economic drivers and political requirements that target lived urban space. ‘Places’ are understood as transversal and multi-scalar (urban, regional, national, global) policy fields which require complex translations to become meaningful efforts on the ground.

The track Places committee collected more than 100 papers and organized 12 sessions and 3 special sessions in which about 70 presenters discussed on current social, cultural and political dilemmas (e.g. youth unemployment, health problems, segregation) in relation to place attachment and place-making processes and debating on How democratic are place-making processes, and what is needed in planning, design and research education to think again about the immanent link between urban space and lived democracy?



Theme issue of the Journal of Urban Design 2018, vol. 23, no. 6
BECOMING LOCAL

Following the general umbrella theme “Becoming Local” for the period 2013-2015 of the Thematic Group, a themed issue was published in 2018, with the same title in the Journal of Urban Design (Guest editors: Sara Santos Cruz, Nikolai Roskamm, Nadia Charalambous). The process was initiated in 2016, with the Call for abstracts, inviting authors to contribute with insights in contextual differences and highlighting the necessity of developing new epistemologies, research tactics, action-based methodologies and researcher identities bridging across academic and institutional boundaries. Besides, contributions should explore manifold perspectives on the set of practices and values that interact in urban spaces as crossroads where global and local forces meet and sometimes collide.

The themed issue intended to deepen the understanding of the relational nature of public spaces and of the role public spaces can play to challenge the conditions of injustice in the contemporary city; more specifically, to bring out discussions on these topics:

(1) Understanding public spaces as “places” where global tendencies ‘sediment’ and are being ‘translated’ and ‘transformed’ according to local cultural, social and political contexts.

(2) Public spaces as a ‘reflection of local identities’ shaped by community behaviours, patterns of everyday life and collective memories. 

(3) Public spaces as a ‘ground of investigation of place making practices’ by different actors and agents particularly in the context of changing role of state, market and civil society in shaping, creating and transforming public spaces.

In all, the themed issue emphasized manifold perspectives on the ‘localized meaning of places’, created and molded by practices, behaviours and collective memories. Four papers comprise research from different socio-spatial contexts, encompassing those diverse perspectives. Meirav Aharon-Gutman and Moriel Ram, in their paper ‘Objective possibility as urban possibility: reading Max Weber in the city’ employ Max Weber’s concept from a socio-historical perspective to the analysis of urban environments, namely studying informal synagogues in Acre. In ‘Public life, immigrant amenities and socio-cultural inclusion: the presence and changes of Turkish amenities in Amsterdam’, Ceren Sezer explores the changes of Turkish amenities in Amsterdam at street and city levels, concluding on the ineffectiveness of inclusive socio-cultural policies of immigrants, in face of the decline of immigrants amenities. Tihomir Viderman and Sabine Knierbein explore the events of autumn 2015, in Vienna, in the paper ‘Reconnecting public space and housing research through affective practice’, concluding that ‘affective practice can be interpreted as the spatialized critique of alienated conditions of everyday life’. Finally, in ‘Urban public open space in the mental image of users: the elements connecting urban public open spaces in a spatial network’, Matej Nikšič & Georgia Butina Watson argue on the relevance of both the overall spatial urban structure and its constituent parts in how users conceptualize urban open public space.

Funded Research Projects*

Some of the research projects funded by urban, regional, national or European research councils

Naomi Adiv - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; on leave from Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA

A COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL STUDY OF MUNICIPAL TOILET PROVISION IN PORTLAND, SEATTLE AND SAN FRANCISCO

Duration: 2017-2018

Coordinator: Naomi Adiv, Portland State University, Oregon, USA

Partners: Amy Lubitow, Portland State University

Funding scheme: I-CASS Early Career Development Award

Themes and expected results: This project will compare the provision of municipal toilets in three west coast cities: Portland, Seattle and San Francisco, focusing on the period from the 1960s to the present day, in which these cities have undergone major restructuring in both industry and fiscal policy. This study asks the following questions: Why have American cities provided (and decommissioned) municipal toilets over time? Where have they sited them over time, and why? What sort of political will and physical infrastructure are necessary to cause cities to provide toilets? What kinds of people do or do not have access to municipal toilets and why? By asking practical questions about why cities have provided toilets in particular times and places, this study aims towards larger theoretical issues of how the body is accommodated (or not) in the realm of publicly shared spaces, as different kinds of people dwell in and move through the city.

Nadia Charalambous - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

SUSTAINABLE URBAN GOVERNANCE THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY

Duration: 2019-2020

Coordinator: Cyprus University of Technology, Nicosia, Cyprus

Partners: University of Cyprus, Harvard University

Funding Scheme: Restart; Research Promotion Foundation

Themes: The Sustainable Urban Governance through Augmented Reality (SUGAR) project aims to develop innovative best-practice protocols and guidelines on Sustainable Urban Governance and specifically Public Participation through Augmented Reality.  The project's key activities include: research in urban governance, augmented reality and public participation to develop a Sustainable Urban Governance framework through AR specifically designed for implementation in the Cypriot context and use of an ‘experimental research’ framework through design thinking to implement, coordinate and monitor such a participatory planning model through a workshop format in Cyprus facilitated by the entire consortium bringing together the public and planning experts.

URBAN POTENTIAL IN THE EVOLUTION OF NICOSIA’S PUBLIC REALM

Duration: 2018-2019

Coordinator: N. Charalambous, University of Cyprus

Funding Scheme: University of Cyprus (UCY) Research Program, Funding for Post-Doctoral Researcher Position

Post-Doc Researcher: Ilaria Geddes

Themes: The issue addressed by the research is the development of an effective methodology to identify areas of the public realm, which have the potential to develop into sustainable local centres within the metropolitan urban area of Nicosia. The public realm as the place of social and economic exchange is a vital part of city life, which enables movement across the city, encounters between residents and visitors, as well as trade and enterprise, delivering goods and services to the community. As such, the public realm, comprising our streets, roads, squares, public spaces and sidewalks along with the related infrastructure, is the most important factor in sustaining thriving local neighbourhoods.

Nadia Charalambous1 and Sabine Knierbein2

1Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, Greece - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

TU Wien, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (Research Unit E285-02), Vienna, Austria - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON URBAN MORPHOLOGY: RESEARCHING AND LEARNING THROUGH MULTIPLE PRACTICES (EPUM)

Duration: 2017-2020

Coordinator: Nadia Charalambous, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

Partner: TU Wien, Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (S. Knierbein), University of Porto (V. Oliveira), La Sapienza Rome (G. Strappa) and Space Syntax Ltd London

Funding scheme: Erasmus+ KA202

Themes and expected results: Urban Morphology, Urban form studies, and multidisciplinary architectural pedagogy are the general themes. Expected results are establishing a network linking the different approaches in urban morphology, developing learning platforms that foster the exchange of knowledge, providing opportunities for contact between members and encouraging the dissemination of findings. The coming together of researchers, educators and learners from different geographical areas and disciplines will provide the opportunity to establish common theoretical foundations for the growing number of urban form studies in many parts of the world. It will also provide the means to engage all stakeholders currently within introverted disciplinary, institutional and geographical boundaries, in a fruitful discussion through a collaborative open learning curriculum supported by a blended learning approach. 

More info at: http://epum.cs.ucy.ac.cy

Gabriella Esposito De Vita and Stefania Ragozino

Research Institute for Innovation and Services for Development (IRISS) - National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Naples, Italy - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CLIC - CIRCULAR MODELS LEVERAGING INVESTMENTS IN CULTURAL HERITAGE ADAPTIVE REUSE H2020

Duration: 2017-2020

Coordinator: Research Institute for Innovation and Services for Development (IRISS CNR), Naples, Italy

Partner: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Cnr Iriss (Italy), Uppsala Universitet (Sweden), Groupe Ichec - Isc Saint-Louis – Isfsc Ichec (Belgium), University College London (UK), Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Netherlands), University of Portsmouth Higher Education Corporation (UK), Univerza V Novi Gorici (Slovenia), Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien (Austria), Uniwersytet Warszawski (Poland), Iclei European Secretariat Gmbh (Germany), Facilitylive Opco Srl (Italy), Vastra Gotalands Lans Landsting (Sweden), Grad Rijeka-GradskoVijece (Croatia), Comune Di Salerno (Italy), Stichting Pakhuis De Zwijger (Netherlands).

Funding scheme: Horizon 2020

Themes and expected results: The overarching goal of the CLIC trans-disciplinary research project is to identify evaluation tools to test, implement, validate and share innovative "circular" financing, business and governance models for systemic adaptive reuse of cultural heritage and landscape, demonstrating the economic, social, environmental convenience, in terms of long lasting economic, cultural and environmental wealth.

More info at:https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/212930_en.html

STRATEGIE E POLITICHE PLACE-BASED PER LO SVILUPPO LOCALE

Duration: 2016-ongoing

Coordinator: Gabriella Esposito De Vita, Research Institute for Innovation and Services for Development (IRISS) - National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Naples, Italy

Partner: University Federico II of Naples

Funding scheme: Italian Research Council

Themes and expected results: combining community engagement and participatory approaches within a cooperative and place-based regeneration process. A specific focus is dedicated to the role of civic economics and civil society initiatives in enhancing bottom up local development and social innovation.

More info at: www.iriss.cnr.it

Sabine Knierbein - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

TU Wien, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (Research Unit E285-02), Vienna, Austria

GEOGRAPHIES OF AGE

Duration: 01/2018 until 06/2019

Coordinator: ETH CASE, Zurich, Switzerland

Partners: KTH CFP, Stockholm, Sweden

Funding scheme: Funded by KTH CFP, Stockholm, Sweden

Themes and expected results: In the context of an ageing population, growing life expectancy and with it a larger share of very old persons, questions of access to housing, services and public spaces present growing challenges to many cities. The vision of age-friendly cities and ageing in place (allowing older persons to stay as long as desired and possible in their familiar home environment) is facilitated by processes of digitalisation, individualisation of life-styles, urban regeneration, new housing arrangements, a variety of services and so forth. At the same time, it is partly the same factors such as urban growth and regeneration, limited availability of appropriate housing, physical and social barriers in terms of access to public spaces and services, mobility of families and changing family patterns that contribute to reducing the quality of life of older and very old persons. These potentially increase isolation and loneliness in that life period.

Considering the actual demographic development, the share of older people in our countries will increase considerably in the next 20 to 30 years. Given these developments, policies for healthy ageing and ageing in place will become more important. Our cities and societies as a whole will face a multitude of challenges: The incidence of chronic and age-related conditions such as dementia will increase considerably. Yet, with the restructuring of retirement provision systems, migration, changes in the labour market, the average wealth of future older generations is likely to decrease considerably. For healthy ageing, the participation in urban life and meaningful activities is fundamental. Particularly, if ageing in one’s own living environment is to be supported for psychological, social and economic reasons, appropriate housing options and accessible and inclusive public urban spaces are needed, which offer a variety of barrier-free, attractive and no/low-cost indoor and outdoor opportunities for social interactions.

Against this background, the Centre for the Future of Places (CFP) at KTH Stockholm, ETH Centre for Research on Architecture, Society and the Built Environment (ETH CASE) in Zurich and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space at TU Wien are carrying out a joint research project.

More info at: https://skuor.tuwien.ac.at/en/research/projekte/geographies-of-age-older-peoples-access-to-housing-and-to-urban-life

Xenia Kopf

PhD Candidate in the Interuniversitary Curriculum Science and Art of Universität Mozarteum Salzburg and Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

THE CITY AS A PERFORMATIVE SPACE. CULTURAL PRACTICES IN URBAN SPACES OF TRANSFORMATION

Duration: 2015–ongoing

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Klaus (Universität Salzburg, FB Kommunikationswissenschaft), Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sabine Knierbein (Urban Culture and Public Space, Technische Universität Wien)

Funding scheme: Doctoral School “The Arts and their Public Impact. Concepts – Transfer – Resonance” at the Cooperation Area Science and Art of Universität Mozarteum Salzburg and Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg

Themes and expected results: The role of cultural practices (art, cultural activities, every-day culture) in processes of urban transformation and how they are embedded in and structured by power relations. Single case study on Arena Vienna 1976, contemporary related cases as points of reference (Rog/Ljubljana, SI; Gängeviertel/Hamburg, GER).

Setha Low - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA

WHY PUBLIC SPACE MATTERS

Duration: ongoing

Coordinator: Setha Low, Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA

Funding scheme: Center for the Future of Places

More info at: https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Angela Million - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

University of Technology Berlin, Institute for City and Regional Planning

CAMPUS AS VISION AND IN PRACTICE OF EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPES

Duration: 1/2019 – 12/2023

Grant author: German Research Foundation DFG

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE “RE-FIGURATION OF SPACES", SUBPROJECT “EDUCATION: THE SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS (AND ITS APPLICATION) IN PLANNING CONTEXTS”

Duration: 1/2018 – 12/2022

Grant author: German Research Foundation DFG

EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPES AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT - INTERFACES AND INTERLACINGS

Duration: 10/2014 – 5/2018;

Grant author: German Research Foundation DFG

Elena Marchigiani - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

RE-LAKE. REGENERATING THE PROTECTED AREA OF SHKODRA LAKE (ALBANIA) THROUGH THE IMPROVEMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE

Duration: 2017-2019

Coordinator: Kallipolis NGO, Trieste, Italy; Elena Marchigiani coordinator of the activities developed by the University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Partner: UNITS-IT; Municipality of Sauris, UTI Carnia, Region Friuli Venezia Giulia-IT; Regional Agency for Environmental Protection, Region Friuli Venezia Giulia-IT; National Agency for Protected Areas, Albania; Municipality of Scutari, Albania; Oxfam Italia, Albania; University of Scutari, Faculty of Economy, Albania

Funding scheme: Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia – Regional Programme for the Cooperation to Development and the International Partnership 2014-2017

Matej Nikšič - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana Ljubljana

HUMAN CITIES 3 - UCITIES

Duration: 2014-2018

Coordinator: Josyane Franc, St. Etienne Cite du Design

Slovenian Partner: Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia

Funding scheme: Creative Europe

Themes and expected results: participatory redesign of urban public open space, active citizenship, social innovation; concrete participatory interventions in public spaces, new teaching modules, publications, final conference in autumn 2018.

More info at: www.humancities.eu

URBAN DESIGN CRITERIA FOR PLANNING – ANALYSIS OF THE UTILIZATION RATE OF BUILT-UP BUILDING LAND

Duration: 2018-2019

Coordinator: Matej Nikšič, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Partners: Ljubljana Planning Institute, BD Planning

Funding scheme: National funds

Themes and expected results: Slovenia has adopted a new Spatial Planning Law in 2017. The research is one of many commissioned by the Slovenian national ministry of spatial planning to provide detailed guidance on implementation of the new law in practice. This research aims to analyse the adaptation of quantitative urban planning measures in practices (FSI, FAR etc.) and propose new values for future municipal plans. One of the aims is to regulate the future development of Slovenian settlements in a way that urbanisation densities would not obstruct the quality of urban space. Open urban space preservation is an important measure in these endeavours.

More info at: http://www.mop.gov.si/en/legislation_and_documents/  (Ministry of Spatial Planning)

TYPOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY OF SETTLEMENT PATERNS – GUIDANCE AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PLACEMENT OF BUILDINGS

Duration: 2018-2019

Coordinator: Matej Nikšič, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Partners: TBC

Funding scheme: National funds

Themes and expected results: Slovenia has adopted a new Spatial Planning Law in 2017. The research is one of many commissioned by the Slovenian national ministry of spatial planning to provide detailed guidance on implementation of the new law in practice. This research will firstly analyse the new morphological patterns that merged in Slovenia and namely in the last decades (after WWII period) changed the traditional matrix. Based on the analyses the project will recommend guidance for the future regulation of morphological patterns in the spatial development plans of Slovenian municipalities.

More info at: http://www.mop.gov.si/en/legislation_and_documents/ (Ministry of Spatial Planning)

Nikolai Roskamm - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Erfurt University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt, Germany

RENEWAL PROPOSAL “SUB\URBAN. JOURNAL FOR CRITICAL URBAN STUDIES”

Duration: 2018-2021

Coordinator: Dr. Boris Michel, FAU Erlangen, Nurnberg, Germany

Partners: Collective sub\urban

Funding scheme: /

Themes and expected results: Continuation of our platform for critical urban studies.

More info at: http://www.zeitschrift-suburban.de

MIGRATIONSBEZOGENE KONFLIKTE ALS HERAUSFORDERUNG UND CHANCE FPR INSTITUTIONELLEN WANDEL IN GRO? UND LEINSTÄDTISCHEN KONTEXTEN

Duration: 2018-2021

Coordinator: Prof. Katrin Großmann, FH Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

Partners: University of Münster, UFZ Leipzig

Funding scheme: /

Themes and expected results: New perspective of conflict related change.

More info at: https://www.migrachance.de

Sara Santos Cruz - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CITTA Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment, Faculty of Engineering University of Porto, Portogallo

CITIZEN SENSING - URBAN CLIMATE RESILIENCE THROUGH PARTICIPATORY RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Duration: 2017-2020

Coordinator: Tina-Simone Neset, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Coordinator from CITTA: Sara Santos Cruz, CITTA/FEUP

Partners: Linköping University, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deltares

Funding scheme: ERA4CS/0001/2016, JPI Climate and co-funded by European Union

Themes and expected results: Urban citizens continually make a multitude of decisions related to climate-related risks e.g. extreme temperatures, precipitation, flooding, water and air pollution and their impacts and these are most often made without clear knowledge of locally specific conditions. With new technologies such as citizen sensing, there is an emerging opportunity for citizens to enhance urban resilience, both as providers of locally situated data (e.g. bacteria levels in drinking water, infrastructure damage or ecological changes) and as receivers of specific recommendations of how to respond to climate-related challenges. Objectives (1) to develop a Participatory Risk Management System that incorporates place-specific information, links to existing guidelines on urban climate risk management and adaptation, and functions as an integrative platform for citizens and relevant organizations at different scales (2) to analyze if, how and to what extent the Participatory Risk Management System has potential to increase preparedness and appropriate responses by citizens and authorities to increase urban climate resilience in different European and climate contexts

More info at: http://citizensensing.eu

SPLACH- SPATIAL PLANNING FOR CHANGE

Duration: 2018-2020

Coordinator: Paulo Pinho, CITTA/FEUP, Portugal

Partner: DINAMIACET - ISCTE/IUL; GOVCOOP - University of Aveiro

Funding scheme: Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) e Portugal 2020

Themes and expected results: The main objective of the SPLACH research programme is the production of a comprehensive and coherent body of development control and transformative planning policies, implementation mechanisms, planning models and decision support systems, able to feed and guide Portuguese planning practice including both the public and the private sectors, at the plan making and the licensing stages - towards a rapid and effective transition to a low carbon and social inclusive urban system. SPLACH draws on some of the main areas of knowledge of the three Research Units (RU) CITTA, DINÂMIA and GOVCOPP. Two or three main areas of knowledge were identified for each RU: spatial planning, Post Carbon Cities / PCC, transformative policies (CITTA), cities in transition and socio-technical system, urban sustainability and food security (DINÂMIA), services of general interest, tourism and modelling (GOVCOPP).

More info at: https://projectsplach.up.pt/

MOBI-AGE – PROMOTING URBAN MOBILITY IN AGEING POPULATIONS

Duration: 2018-2019

Funding scheme: FCT-MIT Portugal - MITEXPL/STS/0065/2017

Themes and expected results: This exploratory project aims to contribute to the promotion of sustainable mobility for the aged population. This population, with some restrictions in terms of personal mobility, do not always have easy access to urban spaces and to the components of the transport system. Urban centers concentrates a good part of the aged population in cities, that inhabit older buildings as well. By definition and in most of these cities, these areas are also areas where historical monuments and other factors of tourist attraction are located. Senior tourism is also a consequence of the general ageing of the population and has been increasing. This panorama makes the urban centers, especially the historical ones, as places where a greater number of elderly people are concentrated in comparison to other zones of the city, residents and visitors. It has been observed that neither the urban public space nor the transport system are adequate, with optimal conditions, to the mobility needs of these groups.

In this way, this exploratory project focuses first and foremost on the bibliographical review on the adequacy of the urban space at the level of urban design and infrastructures as regards the routes and on the pedestrian and bicycle accesses, both to the buildings and access points of the transport system. On the other hand, the literature on the mobility and accessibility of the elderly in the transport system will also be reviewed. Using some information from this review, two case studies, one in Coimbra and another in Porto (selected areas of urban rehabilitation zones historical centers of the two cities) will be studied in relation to the characteristics of their resident elderly population, the areas of residence and characteristics of the public space including touristic attractions, in order to identify needs and failures. A methodology for the diagnosis and classification of historical central spaces, particularly those that are the target of urban rehabilitation operations, will be elaborated from the bibliographical review and the evaluation work of the case studies, as to their suitability in terms of mobility inside the zones considered and between those zones and other zones of the city, for the older population, whether resident or visitor. This methodology should inform the future development of interactive information platforms, aimed at end-users of the space and not only for visitors, but also for residents, which will allow them to find easier solutions to their travel needs.

More information: https://mobiage.dec.uc.pt/project/

Burcu Yigit Turan - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Division of Landscape Architecture 

Place attachments, power relations, invisible-/visible borders, and boundaries in public space (Research Panel: International Migration and Urban Development)

Duration: 2018-2019

Coordinator: Erica Righard, Malmö Unıversity, Sweden

Partners: Burcu Yigit Turan (Senior Lecturer, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), Agneta Mallén (Senior Advisor, City of Malmö), Anna María Pálsdóttir (Senior Lecturer, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

Funding scheme: Co-funded by Urban Mistra Futures, Lund University, Malmö University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

The Scania region, in principal the city of Malmö, is what we, at least by Nordic measures, can call a migration gateway. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Malmö was a major harbor of migrant departure, and it is today an important hub of immigrant arrival in Sweden. This was not least the case in the fall of 2015 when the number of asylum applications peaked in Sweden. The region is fast growing. Its population and economic growth depend on immigration. It is also a region with comparatively large inequalities, with foreign born being overrepresented in the poor segments of the population. Its media representation is dominated by negative descriptions of conflicts and criminality, often as related to immigration, not least in international media reporting. Both popular, political and academic debates about the develop in Malmö tend to get polarized, this panel aim at contributing to this debate building on empirically relevant and theoretically sound research.

More info at: https://www.mistraurbanfutures.org/en/project/research-panel-international-migration-and-urban-development

Teaching Activities of Group Members*

Naomi Adiv - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; on leave from Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, UA

Lecture: USP 410/510 Public Space

Hosting institution: Portland State University, Portland, USA

Lecture: GGR 389 Public space and Planning

Hosting institution: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Gabriella Esposito De Vita - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Institute of Research on Innovation and Services for Development IRISS - National Research Council of Italy CNR, Naples, Italy

Member of Academic Board: International Doctorate Programme in Urban Regeneration and Economic Development, XXXI Cycle

Hosting institution: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

Lectures and Seminaries: Place-based Strategies and Policies for Local Development

Hosting institution: International project MAPS-LED (Multidisciplinary Approach to Plan Smart Specialisation Strategies For Local Economic Development) HORIZON 2020 – Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE (2015-2019)

Lectures and Seminaries: Place-based Strategies and Policies for Local Development

Hosting institution: Università Federico II di Napoli, Dipartimento di Architettura, Naples, Italy

Sabine Knierbein - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

TU Wien, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (Research Unit E285-02), Vienna, Austria

Teaching Coordination: Master Module: Urban Citizenship. Public Space, Post-Migrational Perspectives and Civic Innovation, 12 ECTS, 3 courses: Lecture (LE),Seminar (SE), Exercise (EXE)

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Teaching Coordination: Doctoral/Master Thesis Seminar: Urban Studies 3 ECTS, 1 course: SE

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Teaching Coordination: Master Module: Urban Culture, Public Space and Housing 12 ECTS, 3 courses: LE, SE, EXE

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Teaching Coordination: Doctoral Thesis Seminar How to publish a paper in urban studies or planning theory?, 3 ECTS, 1 course: SE

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Teaching Coordination: EPUM - Innovative Perspectives on Urban Morphologies - A relational-material approach, 6 ECTS, 1 course: SE

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Teaching Coordination: Master Studio-Project: Lost in "Transdanubia" - Translating the global urban agenda through local urban action, 12 ECTS, 1 course: PRO

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Teaching Coordination: Doctoral/Master Thesis Seminar: Contemporary Urban Design Theory, 3 ECTS, 1 course: SE

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Teaching Coordination: Doctoral/Master Excursion to South-East London,4 ECTS, 1 course: Excursion (EX)

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Course: Strategies and Intervention of the Production of Space, (English, 4 ECTS, Cohen/Knierbein), Master, LE, FAP, TUW

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Course: Concepts and Critique of the Production of Space, (English, 4 ECTS, Cohen/Gabauer/Knierbein), Master, SE, FAP, TUW

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Course: Thesis Seminar in Urban Studies incl. Thesis Colloquium in Urban Studies, (English, 3 ECTS, Cohen/ Knierbein/ Güntner/ Watson), Doctoral/Master, SE, FAP, TUW

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Course: Strategies and Intervention of the Production of Space, (English, 4 ECTS, Knierbein/Pizzo), Master, LE, FAP, TUW

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Course: Concepts and Critique of the Production of Space, (English, 4 ECTS, Knierbein/Lehner/Pizzo), Master, SE, FAP, TUW

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Course: How to publish a paper in urban studies or planning theory?, (English, 3 ECTS, Knierbein/Suitner), Doctoral, SE, FAP, TUW

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Course: EPUM - Innovative Perspectives on Urban Morphologies - A relational-material approach, (English, 6 ECTS, Knierbein/Viderman), Master, SE, FAP, TUW

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Course: Project: Lost in "Transdanubia" - Translating the global urban agenda through local urban action, (English, 12 ECTS, Knierbein/Kränzle/ Wagner/ Wall), Master, STU, FAP, TUW

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Course: Contemporary Urban Design Theory, (English, 3ECTS, Knierbein/Wall), Doctoral/Master,SE, FAP, TUW

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Course: Excursion to South-East London. Urban Agendas caught between local needs and global pressures, (English, 4 ECTS, Knierbein/Kränzle/Wall), Doctoral/Master, SE, FAP, TUW

Hosting institution: TU Wien, Wien, Austria

Erasmus Teaching Mobility with KTH Stockholm (January 2018, Stockholm, Sweden) and with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (May 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece)

Setha Low - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA

Seminar: Methods, Public Space, Engaged Urbanism

Hosting institution: Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA

Christine Mady - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU), Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon

Course: Urbanism II

Hosting institution: Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU), Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon

Master Coordinator: Master in Architecture Program

Hosting institution: Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU), Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon

Chair: Chairperson of the Department of Architecture

Hosting institution: Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU), Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon

Elena Marchigiani - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Member of academic board: Ph.D Committee

Hosting institution: Faculty of Architecture and Arts, University of Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium

Member of the assessment commission: Ph.D. Thesis

Hosting institution: Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Member of academic board: Board of Directors of the International Advanced Master Course in Sustainable Blue Growth

Hosting institution: University of Trieste, Istituto di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Trieste, Italy

Coordinator: Urban Planning Laboratory II, Single-cycle Degree in Architecture

Hosting institution: University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Course: Techniques and Urban Planning, Master Degree in Civil Engineering

Hosting institution: University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Angela Million - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

University of Technology Berlin, Institute for City and Regional Planning, Berlin, Germany

BA-Studio: Bachelor City and Regional Planning, BA-Studio Urban Design 4 SWS

Hosting institution: TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Lecture: Bachelor City and Regional Planning, Lecture Introduction to Urban Design 2 SWS

Hosting institution: TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Lecture: Bachelor City and Regional Planning, Lecture Visual communication tools and skills/CAD 2 SWS

Hosting institution: TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Seminar: Master Urban Design/Master City and Regional Planning, Seminar Urban Design Methods and Tools 2 SWS

Hosting institution: TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Seminar: Master Urban Design/Master City and Regional Planning, Seminar Städtebau und Baukultur 4 SWS

Hosting institution: TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

MA-Studio: Master Urban Design/Master City and Regional Planning, MA-Studio Urban Design 4 SWS

Hosting institution: TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Matej Nikšič - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Lecture: Redesigning open public spaces – why bottom-up approaches matter in the case of Ljubljana

Hosting institution: Design for a Week Conference, University of Katowice, Katowice, Poland

Lecture: Public Space Design to Support Visitors' Engagement

Hosting institution: Urban Interfaces: Material Approaches Conference, Utrecht University, Utrecht , The Netherlands

Series of lectures: Theory of Urban Analyses

Hosting institution: Chamber of Architecture and Spatial Planning of Slovenia, Slovenia

Lecture: Urban walkability as a measure of a just city - The prospects of co-designed local public spaces

Hosting institution: International Week 2018 – From Roads to Streets, Faculty of Architecture, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Maria Francesca Piazzoni - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

USC, Price School of Public Policy, Los Angeles, USA

Course: Shanghai Un/Expected

Hosting institution: UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Course: House Precarity, Design Studio in Los Angeles

Hosting institution: UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Nikolai Roskamm - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Erfurt University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt, Germany

Lecture: Stadtbaugeschichte und Städtebau

Hosting institution: FH, Erfurt, Germany

Course: Projekt MA1

Hosting institution: New Library Berlin ZLB, FH, Erfurt, Germany

Seminar: Planung im Wandel

Hosting institution: FH, Erfurt, Germany

Seminar: Konflikttheorie Leseclub

Hosting institution: FH, Erfurt, Germany

Lecture: Planungstheorie und -methoden

Hosting institution: FH, Erfurt, Germany

Lecture/Course: Stadtumbau

Hosting institution: FH, Erfurt, Germany

Projekt MA2: Wolfsburg Award 2018

Hosting institution: FH, Erfurt, Germany

Seminar: Studienprojekt VI

Hosting institution: FH, Erfurt, Germany

Mohamed Saleh – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands 

University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 

Course: Defining the Design Problem

Hosting institution: Academy of Architecture, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands 

Course: Design with and for Society

Hosting institution: Academy of Architecture, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands 

Course: Tangenborgh Atelier: Design Care Centre for Dementia

Hosting institution: Academy of Architecture, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands 

Seminar: Middle Eastern Geographical, Social and Cultural Diversity

Hosting institution: AIESEC, The Netherlands

Guest Lecture: Cairo, a City with Many Faces

Hosting institution: Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 

Ceren Sezer - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

Course: Elective Course City, Migration and Socio-Spatial Inequality

Hosting institution: TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands

Course: BK2AC1 Academische Vaardigheden 1 Bouwkunde als Wetenschappelijke Discipline (2015-2016 Q4)

Hosting institution: TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands

Tihomir Viderman - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Brandenburgische Technische Universität, Faculty 6, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning, Cottbus, Germany

Studio project: Projekt Stadtmanagement. Urbane Handelslagen der Zukunft: Leipziger Innenstadt (Master 12 ECTS, German)

Hosting institution: Brandenburgische Technische Universität, Cottbus, Germany

Seminar: Prozess und Steuerung (Master 3 ECTS, German)

Hosting institution: Brandenburgische Technische Universität, Cottbus, Germany

Seminar: Stadtentwicklung und Medien: die rebellische Stadt (Master 6 ECTS, German)

Hosting institution: Brandenburgische Technische Universität, Cottbus, Germany

Seminar: EPUM - Innovative Perspectives on Urban Morphologies - A relational-material approach (Master 6 ECTS, English)

Hosting institution: Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Germany

Sharon Wohl -  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Iowa State University, Iowa, USA

Course: Masters of Urban Design Studio (501)

Hosting institution: Iowa State University, Iowa, USA

Course: Honors Seminar, Architecture and Culture (H321)

Hosting institution: Iowa State University, Iowa, USA

Course: Graduate Seminar, Complexity and Urbanism (528)

Hosting institution: Iowa State University, Iowa, USA

Conference/Workshop*

Naomi Adiv - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; on leave from Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA

ORDER, CONTROL AND TRANSGRESSION IN URBAN PUBLIC SPACES

Role: Paper Session Organizer

Hosting institution: Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, USA

AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS WHO CLEANS THE PARK (KRINSKY AND SIMONET, 2017)

Role: Panelist

Hosting institution: Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, USA

GULF SOUTH GEOGRAPHIES OF FREEDOM: RETHINKING THE POLITICS AND PRACTICES OF NEW ORLEANS RESEARCH IN THE GEOGRAPHIC IMAGINATION

Role: Discussant

Hosting institution: Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, USA

MUNICIPAL PROVISION OF PUBLIC TOILETS IN AMERICAN CITIES AND THEIR EFFECT ON ACCESS TO PUBLIC SPACE BY VARIOUS USER GROUPS

Role: Presenter

Hosting institution: Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, USA

Nadia Charalambous – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

THE URBANIZATION OF (IN)JUSTICE: PUBLIC SPACES IN UNCERTAIN GEOGRAPHIES

Role: Meeting Co-organizer and Member of the Scientific Committe

Hosting institution: Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

URBAN MORPHOLOGY IN SOUTH-EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CITIES: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Role: Chair

Hosting institution: Cyprus Network of Urban Morphology, Cyprus

Gabriella Esposito De Vita - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Institute of Research on Innovation and Services for Development IRISS - National Research Council of Italy CNR, Naples, Italy

TG PUBLIC SPACES AND URBAN CULTURES MEETING

Role: Meeting Chair

Hosting institution: AESOP Annual Congress 2018, Making Space of Hope, Gothenburg, Sweden

AESOP ANNUAL CONGRESS GOTHENBURG 2018 – MAKING SPACE FOR HOPE

Role: Chair of the Session Theorizing #5, Track #1 PLACES

Hosting institution: AESOP Annual Congress 2018, Making Space of Hope, Gothenburg, Sweden

NUOVI METABOLISMI URBANI E RELAZIONI SPAZIALI DI (O PER) SERVIZI, WELFARE ED ECONOMIE RELAZIONALI, CIRCOLARI E DELLA RECIPROCITÀ Workshop #3.2

Role: Workshop Discussant

Hosting institution: XXI Conferenza Nazionale SIU Confini, Movimenti, Luoghi Politiche e Progetti per Città e Territori in Transizione, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy

WP AND MANAGEMENT MEETING - H2020 CLIC PROJECT

Role: Session Moderator

Hosting institution: Municipality of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

WP AND MANAGEMENT MEETING - H2020 CLIC PROJECT

Role: Session Moderator

Hosting institution: TU/e University of Technology and Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

SPECIAL SESSION “ADAPTIVE REUSE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY: THE CLIC APPROACH” - H2020 CLIC PROJECT

Role: Session Chair

Hosting institution: XI INU Study Day, Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

CLIC KICK OFF MEETING AND PUBLIC EVENT - H2020 CLIC PROJECT

Role: Member of the Scientific Committee

Hosting institution: CNR IRISS, Naples, Italy

WPS OVERVIEW: METHODOLOGY, DELIVERABLES AND TIMELINE, ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY, LINKAGES AMONG WPS - H2020 CLIC PROJECT

Role: Invited Speaker

Hosting institution: CNR IRISS, Naples, Italy

CULTURAL HERITAGE AS CONNECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE

Role: Session Chair

Hosting institution: International Conference “Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour (ABC) The Science of the Smart City 2.0: Urban Livability, Climate Change and Circular Economic Futures”, ACEN, Naples, Italy

THIRD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES, LOCAL KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION DYNAMICS TOWARDS TERRITORY ATTRACTIVENESS THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HORIZON/E2020/AGENDA 2030

Role: Member of the Scientific Committee

Hosting institution: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

TRACK S02 PLACE-BASED URBAN REGENERATION FOR IMPROVING SUSTAINABLE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT: CULTURAL HERITAGE, SOCIAL INNOVATION, CIVIC ECONOMICS, INCLUSIVE CITIES

Role: Track Chair

Hosting institution: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

ECONOMIE CIRCOLARI PER IL PATRIMONIO CULTURALE: PROCESSI SINERGICI DI RIUSO ADATTIVO PER LA RIGENERAZIONE URBANA

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: XXI Conferenza Nazionale SIU Confini, Movimenti, Luoghi Politiche e Progetti per Città e Territori in Transizione, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

SUPPORTING CIRCULAR GOVERNANCE THROUGH INFORMED DECISION-MAKING

Role: Paper presenter

Hosting institution: AESOP Annual Congress 2018, Making Space of Hope, Gothenburg, Sweden

H2020 CLIC PROJECT PRESENTATION - H2020 CLIC PROJECT

Role: Project Presenter

Hosting institution: TG Public Spaces and Urban Cultures Meeting, AESOP Annual Congress 2018, Making Space of Hope, Gothenburg, Sweden

CULTURAL HERITAGE ADAPTIVE REUSE: THE ROLE OF CONNECTIVE CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURES - H2020 CLIC PROJECT

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: XI INU Study Day, Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

CIRCULAR MODELS FOR THE URBAN COMPLEXITY - H2020 CLIC PROJECT

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: XI INU Study Day, Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

HISTORIC URBAN LANDSCAPE (HUL) WORKSHOP - H2020 CLIC PROJECT

Role: Workshop Participant

Hosting institution: Municipality of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

HISTORIC URBAN LANDSCAPE (HUL) WORKSHOP - H2020 CLIC PROJECT

Role: Workshop Participant

Hosting institution: TU/e University of Technology and Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

FIRST LABORATORY OF TRANSDISCIPLINARY (LABT) - H2020 CLIC PROJECT

Role: Laboratory Participant

Hosting institution: TU/e University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Sabine Knierbein - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

TU Wien, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (Research Unit E285-02), Vienna, Austria

THE URBANIZATION OF (IN)JUSTICE: PUBLIC SPACES IN UNCERTAIN GEOGRAPHIES

Role: Meeting Co-organizer and Member of the Scientific Committee

Hosting institution: Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

AESOP ANNUAL CONGRESS GOTHENBURG “MAKING SPACE FOR HOPE”

Role: Chair of the Track #1 Places

Hosting institution: Chalmers University Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Xenia Kopf

PhD Candidate in the Interuniversitary Curriculum Science and Art of Universität Mozarteum Salzburg and Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

BUBBLES AND BODIES – ON THE MATERIAL BASIS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE (Zur materiellen Basis dr Öffentlichkeit)

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: Katholische Privatuniversität Linz, Justus Liebig Universität Gießen, Linz, Austria

SENSING COLLECTIVES – AESTHETIC AND POLITICAL PRACTICES INTERTWINED

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: Technical University Berlin, in coop. with Freie Universität Berlin, ICI Berlin, and Hybrid Platform, Berlin, Germany

KNOWLEDGE CULTURES AND DIVERSITY – POSITIONS, DIFFRACTIONS, PARTICIPATIONS (Wissenskulturen und Diversität. Positionen, Diffraktionen, Partizipationen. 6. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung ÖGGF)

Role: Attendee

Hosting institution: MDW – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Wien, Austria

Setha Low - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA

Role: Visiting Scholar

Hosting institution: KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE OF PUBLIC SPACE LECTURE

Role: Lecturer

Hosting institution: Venice Architecture Biennale Session, Venice, Italy

UN HABITAT EXPERT LECTURE

Role: Lecturer

Hosting institution: Stockholm, Sweden

ATHENA DISTINGUISHED WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE LECTURE

Role: Lecturer

Hosting institution: School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

URBAN STUDIES INAUGURATION

Role: Plenary Speaker

Hosting institution: University of Puerto Rico, Piedras Negro, San Juan, PR

URBAN STUDIES CONFERENCE

Role: Keynote Speaker

Hosting institution: University of Zagreb, , Zagreb, Croatia

URBAN RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

Role: Keynote Speaker

Hosting institution: University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

LANGUAGE AND SPACE

Role: Keynote Speaker

Hosting institution: University of Zurich, Ascona, Switzerland

Christine Mady- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU), Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon

CITY STREET3 CONFERENCE (CS3)

Role: Member of the Organizing Committee

Hosting institution: Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU), Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon

AESOP ANNUAL CONGRESS GOTHENBURG 2018 – MAKING SPACE FOR HOPE

Role: Chair of the Session Connecting, Track #1 PLACES

Hosting institution: Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden

DAAD FUNDED WORKSHOP GERMAN JORDANIAN UNIVERSITY AND BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR

Role: Invited Speaker

Hosting institution: German Jordanian University and Bauhaus University Weimar, Weimar, Germany

SPACE, TIME AND VIOLENCE

Role: Invited Speaker

Hosting institution: University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

Elena Marchigiani - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

CINQUANT’ANNI DI STANDARD URBANISTICI (1968-2018) (FIFTY YEARS FROM THE INSTITUTION OF PLANNING STANDARDS (1968-2018))

Role: Conference Co-organizer

Hosting institution: IUAV, Venice, Italy

CITTÀ ACCESSIBILI A TUTTI. POLITICHE E SERVIZI / RICERCHE E STUDI. ESPERIENZE REGIONALI

Role: Invited Speaker

Hosting institution: national seminar INU-Italian Institute of Planning, Naples, Italy

RE-LAKE. REGENERATING THE PROTECTED AREA OF SHKODRA LAKE THROUGH THE IMPROVEMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE

Role: Workshop Co-organizer

Hosting institution: Faculty of Economy of the University of Scutari, Scutari, Albania

BAOLOC TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. STRATEGIC PLANNING AS A TOOL

Role: Member of the International Scientific Conference Committee

Hosting institution: Lam Dong Department of Construction, Ton Duc Thang University, BaoLoc People Committee, BaoLoc, Vietnam

FORME E MODI PER (RI)USARE IL PATRIMONIO COSTRUITO, STORICO E CONTEMPORANEO

Role: Discussant

Hosting institution: SIU-Italian Society of Planners XXI National Conference, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

IL GOVERNO DELL’URBANISTICA

Role: Invited Speaker

Hosting institution: Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italia

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN CIVIL, URBAN AND TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

Role: Invited Speaker

Hosting institution: Ton DucThang University et al., Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

#CULTURALHACKATHON. LARU LABORATORIO DI RIGENERAZIONE URBANA 2017/2018. ARTE E CULTURA PER L’ATTIVAZIONE DEL TERRITORIO E DELLA COMUNITÀ

Role: Invited Speaker

Hosting institution: Social Housing Neighbourhood of Rozzol Melara, Trieste, Italy

STANDARD A MISURA. REGOLE, ATTORI, ESPERIENZE

Role: Conference Co-organizer

Hosting institution: Department of Architecture University of Roma Tre, SIU-Italian Society of Planners, Rome, Italy

Matej Nikšič - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

CREATIVE SPACES IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS

Role: Discussant

Hosting institution: VII Saint Petersburg International Cultural Forum, St Petersburg, Russia

Maria Francesca Piazzoni - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

USC, Price School of Public Policy, Los Angeles, USA

VISIBLE OTHERS AND URBAN IMAGINARIES IN ROME

Role: Invited Presenter

Hosting institution: European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS), Paris, France

THE LEGACY OF KEVIN LYNCH: REFLECTIONS ON THE HERITAGE INDUSTRY

Role: Invited round table discussant

Hosting institution: AESOP Annual Congress Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

OTHERS IN THE CITY. VISIBILITIES AND INVISIBILITIES OF THE BANGLADESHI STREET VENDORS OF ROME

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: AESOP Annual Congress Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

DIASPORIC IDENTITIES IN THE LANDSCAPES OF TOURISM: VISIBILITIES OF BANGLADESHI STREET-VENDORS IN ROME, ITALY

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: Urban Affairs Association Conference (UAA), Toronto, Canada

IMMIGRANTS AND RIGHT TO THE CITY. THE VISIBILITY OF BANGLADESHI STREET VENDORS IN ROME

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference (ACSP), Buffalo, USA

Stefania Ragozino - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Institute of Research on Innovation and Services for Development IRISS - National Research Council of Italy CNR, Naples, Italy

AESOP ANNUAL CONGRESS GOTHENBURG “MAKING SPACE FOR HOPE”

Role: Chair of the Track #1 Places

Hosting institution: Chalmers University Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

URBANI IZZIV, VOLUME 29, SUPPLEMENT, SEPTEMBER 2018, ISSN 0353-6483

Role: Guest Editor

CO-DESIGN PER L’IRPINIA. COSTRUIAMO INSIEME IL PROCESSO DI VALORIZZAZIONE DELLA LINEA FERROVIARIA STORICA AVELLINO-ROCCHETTA SANT’ANTONIO PER LA RIGENERAZIONE DELL’IRPINIA

Role: Invited Speaker

Hosting institution: Convegno nazionale “Ferrovie Turistiche, Mobilità Dolce e Rigenerazione Territoriale”, Carcere Borbonico, Avellino, Italy

AREE INTERNE E BORGHI: QUALE FUTURO PER I PAESAGGI FRAGILI?

Role: Roundtable Discussant

Hosting institution: XI Giornata di Studi INU, Interruzioni, Intersezioni, Condivisioni, Sovrapposizioni. Nuove prospettive per il territorio, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Architettura, Naples, Italy

‘THE CITY DECIDES!’ POLITICAL STANDSTILL AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN POST-INDUSTRIAL NAPLES

Role: Chapter presenter within the Book “Public Space Unbound. Urban Emancipation and Post-Political Conditions” edited by Sabine Knierbein and Tihomir Viderman

Hosting institution: AESOP Annual Congress 2018, Making Space of Hope, Gothenburg, Sweden

HERITAGE INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS, INCONTRO CON GLI STAKEHOLDER DELLA CITTÀ DI SALERNO PER LA PROMOZIONE DI UNA CULTURA DI INNOVAZIONE E IMPRENDITORIALITÀ PER IL RIUSO ADATTIVO DEL PATRIMONIO CULTURALE

Role: Member of the Scientific Committee

Hosting institution: Giardino della Minerva, Salerno, Italy

CIRCULAR MODELS FOR THE URBAN COMPLEXITY - H2020 CLIC PROJECT

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: XI INU Study Day, Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

ECONOMIE CIRCOLARI PER IL PATRIMONIO CULTURALE: PROCESSI SINERGICI DI RIUSO ADATTIVO PER LA RIGENERAZIONE URBANA

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: XXI Conferenza Nazionale SIU Confini, Movimenti, Luoghi Politiche e Progetti per Città e Territori in Transizione, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

CIRCULAR GOVERNANCE MODELS FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE ADAPTIVE REUSE: THE EXPERIMENTATION OF HERITAGE INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: XI INU Study Day, Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

NAVIGATING NEO-LIBERAL URBANISM IN THE UK. COULD A SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR BE CONSIDERED AN ACTIVIST PLANNER?

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: Third International Symposium New Metropolitan Perspectives, Local Knowledge and Innovation Dynamics Towards Territory Attractiveness through the Implementation of Horizon/E2020/Agenda2030, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

LANDSCAPE AS DRIVER TO BUILD REGENERATION STRATEGIES IN INNER AREAS. A CRITICAL LITERATURE REVIEW

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: Third International Symposium New Metropolitan Perspectives, Local Knowledge and Innovation Dynamics Towards Territory Attractiveness through the Implementation of Horizon/E2020/Agenda2030, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

IL TRENO IRPINO DEL PAESAGGIO, VEICOLO DI NARRAZIONE E VALORIZZAZIONE DI COMUNITÀ E TERRITORIO

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: Conferenza Territori, mobilità, lavori, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy

HOW TO COPE WITH THE TERRITORIAL DEGENERATION OF NON-CORE AREAS? A LANDSCAPE-BASED PROPOSAL TO MAP THE TERRITORIAL CAPITAL OF ALTA IRPINIA, ITALY

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: INTERNATIONAL EXPERT WORKSHOP, The Science of the Smart City 2.0, 'Urban Liveability, Climate Change and Circular Economic Futures', ACEN, Naples, Italy

WORLD CAFÈ: FORMAZIONE FORMATORI IN METODOLOGIE DI PROGETTAZIONE PARTECIPATA

Role: Participant

Hosting institution: CNR IRISS, Naples, Italy

Nikolai Roskamm - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Erfurt University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt, Germany

BOOKLAUNCH "PUBLIC SPACE UNBOUND: URBAN EMANCIPATION AND THE POST-POLITICAL CONDITION" EDITED BY SABINE KNIERBEIN AND TIHOMIR VIDERMAN

Role: Discussant

Hosting institution: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

MISCHUNG: BEGRIFFSKLÄRUNGEN

Role: Paper Presenter, Keynote-input for the workshop "Wohnen und Soziales"

Hosting institution: Sanierungsgebiet Rathausblock, Berlin, Germany

DIE SUCHENACHDEMGRUND: POSTFUNDAMENTALISTISCHESDENKEN UND STADTTHEORIE

Role: Keynote

Hosting institution: AG Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung, Darmstadt, Germany

URBAN CONTESTATION AS COMMON GROUND

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: International Conference "Histories and Rhythms of Urban Violence”, Universität Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

Mohamed Saleh – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands 

University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 

AESOP ANNUAL CONGRESS GOTHENBURG “MAKING SPACE FOR HOPE”

Role: Chair of the Track #1 Places

Hosting institution: Chalmers University Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

GEOPOLITICS OF PLACE AND URBAN JUSTICE IN URBAN DESIGN STUDIO

Role: Panel Discussant of Roundtable

Hosting institution: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden 

BOOK LAUNCH: PUBLIC SPACE UNBOUND: URBAN EMANCIPATION AND THE POST-POLITICAL CONDITION

Role: Discussant

Hosting institution: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden 

SUMMER SCHOOL: EXPERIENTIAL FUTURES

Role: Participant

Hosting institution: Urban Futures Studio, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Sara Santos Cruz - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CITTA Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment, Faculty of Engineering University of Porto, Portugal

RE-LEARNING PUBLIC SPACE, AN ACTION RESEARCH EVENT AMSTERDAM

Role: Meeting Co-Organizer and Member of the Scientific Committee

Hosting institution: Amsterdam Metropolitan solutions – AMS and Wageningen University

Ceren Sezer - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

THE URBANIZATION OF (IN)JUSTICE: PUBLIC SPACES IN UNCERTAIN GEOGRAPHIES

Role: Meeting Co-Organizer and Member of the Scientific Committee

Hosting institution: University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

RE-LEARNING PUBLIC SPACE, AN ACTION RESEARCH EVENT AMSTERDAM

Role: Meeting Co-Organizer and Member of the Scientific Committee

Hosting institution: Amsterdam Metropolitan solutions – AMS and Wageningen University

CITY STREET3 CONFERENCE (CS3)

Role: Track Chair

Hosting institution: Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU), Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon

THE DEMISE OF A JUST CITY?

Role: Invited Speaker

Hosting institution: Future Cities Laboratory, ETH Centre 1 Create Way, Singapore, Japan

PUBLIC LIFE, IMMIGRANT AMENITIES AND SOCIO-CULTURAL INCLUSION

Role: Invited Speaker

Hosting institution: National University of Singapore, Japan

PUBLIC LIFE, SOCIO-CULTURAL INCLUSION AND IMMIGRANT AMENITIES

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

VISIBILITY OF TURKISH AMENITIES: IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION AND SOCIAL COHESION IN AMSTERDAM

Role: Paper Presenter

Hosting institution: Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU), Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon

Tihomir Viderman - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Brandenburgische Technische Universität, Faculty 6, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning, Cottbus, Germany

EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON URBAN MORPHOLOGY; EPUM intensive workshop

Role: Discussant and Mentor

Hosting institution: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Burcu Yigit Turan - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Uppsala, Sweden

AESOP ANNUAL CONGRESS GOTHENBURG “MAKING SPACE FOR HOPE”

Role: organizer of round table "geopolitics of place and social justice in urban design studio" 

Hosting institution: Chalmers University Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

BOOK LAUNCH: PUBLIC SPACE UNBOUND: URBAN EMANCIPATION AND THE POST-POLITICAL CONDITION

Role: Discussant

Hosting institution: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden 

DECIPHERING CONSTRUCTED MIGRANT SUBJECTIVITIES IN PARK DESIGN: TOWARDS A POLITICIZING ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AS CULTURAL PRACTICE

Role: paper presenter

Hosting Institution: Park Politics—International Conference, June 7 – 9, 2018 Vienna (extended abstract)

Excursion and different types of outreach-networking events*

Naomi Adiv - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; on leave from Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, UA

THE AЯTS

Typology of event: Post-show talkback for

Location: LaMama theatre, New York City, USA

PAIDIA MEETS LUDUS – WHY STUDY NEW YORK CITY SWIMMING POOLS?

Typology of event: guest lecture

Location: Urban Anthropology course, Guttman Community College, New York City, USA

SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY AND URBAN PUBLIC SPACES

Typology of event: Institute for Sustainable Solutions student fellow social hour

Location: Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA

DESIGN WEEK PORTLAND

Typology of Event: PARK(ing) day Guest designer and organizer (with Dr. Anna Goodman)

Location: Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA

Sabine Knierbein - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

TU Wien, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (Research Unit E285-02), Vienna, Austria

EXCURSION TO SOUTH-EAST LONDON. URBAN AGENDAS CAUGHT BETWEEN LOCAL NEEDS AND GLOBAL PRESSURES

Typology of event: excursion

Location: London, in collaboration with Academic Leader Dr. Ed Wall, University of Greenwich, London, UK

Christine Mady - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU), Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon

DAAD STUDY VISIT ORGANISED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AT NDU

Typology of event: study visit

Location: DAAD, Berlin-Dessau- Weimar, Germany

Mohamed Saleh – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands 

University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 

SEEING THE CITY THROUGH THE ARCHITECT’S EYES

Typology of event: Excursion with Bachelor students as an inspiration of academic year start.

Location: City Centre of Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands

THE FUTURE ARCHITECTS  

Typology of event: Partition in a science fair for kids

Location: University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

Tihomir Viderman - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Brandenburgische Technische Universität, Faculty 6, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning, Cottbus, Germany

STÄDTEBAULICHE EXKURSION - FRANKFURT/MAIN, Germany

Typology of event: excursion

Location: Frankfurt/ Main, Germany

Some of the 2018 publications and conference presentations by group members*

Aelbrecht, P., Introducing body-language methods into urban design to research the social and interactional potential of public space. Journal of Urban Design, 1-26. doi:10.1080/13574809.2018.1537712

Adiv, N. & L. Wolf-Powers, User fees, public life, and the permeability of public space at municipal pools and bathhouses in New York City, 1870 – present. Urban Geography, 1-26. doi:10.1080/02723638.2018.1524193

Adiv, N., Book Review: City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy. Urban Studies 55(11), 2559-2564. doi:10.1177/0042098018768461

Adiv, N., Rivers, Filth and Heat: Riverbaths and the fight over public bathing. Retrieved from: https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog

Basso S., Marchigiani E., Quartieri di edilizia pubblica e attrezzature collettive nel dopoguerra: gli anni di una ricerca sperimentale. Territorio 84, 41-54. Doi: 10.3280/TR2018-084006

Becheri, E., Daldanise, G. & Esposito de Vita, G., Rapporto sul Turismo: La crescita dell'attività extralberghiera ed il cambiamento dell'identità dei luoghi. Retrieved from: http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/395997

Bentlin, F., Million, A., Schenkel, Z. & Zemke, R., Die produktive Provinzstadt: Lehr- und Lernraum StadtLand – Auf dem Weg zu einem neuen Planungsverständnis. Schriftenreihe Städtebau und Kommunikation von Planung 2. Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin.

Bianchetti C. & Marchigiani E., Ragionando su città e produzione. In G. Caudo, D. De Leo (Ed.), Urbanistica e azione pubblica (pp. 129-135).

Brković, M. & Million, A., Wenn die Stadt zur Lernlandschaft wird. Metron Themenheft (34), 22-25.

Brück, A. & Million, A., Editorial: Visions for future cities. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning 171(4), 143–45. doi:10.1680/jurdp.2018.171.4.143

Charalambous N. & Kyriazis, G., InterActions: housing design in uncertain environments”. Berlin:  JOVIS.

Charalambous, N., Spatial Forms of Ethnic Coexistence in Ottoman Cyprus: The Role of Urban Form in Patterns of Everyday Life. Journal of Urban History, 1-24. doi:10.1177/0096144218816652

Charalambous, N., The Challenge of Change in Living Environments: Implications and Opportunities for ArchitecturalEducation. In Madrazo, L. (ed), Global Dwelling: Intertwining Research, Pedagogy and Community Participation (pp. 166-178). Barcelona: Editorial Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle.

Covatta, A., Planning a local and global foodscape: Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. In Cabannes Y. & Marocchino C. (Eds.), Integrating Food into Urban Planning (pp. 171-185). London: UCL Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv513dv1.15

Covatta, A., From infrastructure to playground: the playable soul of Copenhagen. Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health 5(3).

Covatta A., Kazuyo S. & Ryue N., SANAA Tsuruoka Cultural Hall. Domus 1022 (62-73).

Cruz, S., Roskamm, N. & Charalambous, N,.. Ed: Becoming Local, theme issue. Journal of Urban Design 23 (6).

Cruz, S., Roskamm, N. & Charalambous, N., Inquiries into Public Space Practices, Identities and Values. Journal of Urban Design 23 (6), 797-802. doi:10.1080/13574809.2018.1525289

Dalla Betta E., Cigalotto P. & Marchigiani E., Trieste: una città di dotazioni di interesse collettivo. In C. Giaimo (eds). Dopo 50 anni di standard urbanistici in Italia (pp. 128-133). Roma: INU Edizioni.

Dolff-Bonekämper, G., Million, A. & Pahl-Weber, E., Das Hobrechtsche Berlin: Wachstum, Wandel und Wert der Berliner Stadterweiterung. Grundlagen BV036100900 Band 66. Berlin: DOM publishers.

Esposito De Vita, G., Can government and insurgent publics cooperate to reclaim mafia-controlled territory? The emancipatory experience of Naples (Italy). In Knierbein S., Viderman T. (eds.) Public Space Unbound. Urban Emancipation and Post-Political Conditions. London: Routledge.

Esposito De Vita, G. & Ragozino S., Enabling Space. Dialogues and bridges between institutions and self-organized practices for a collaborative territorial planning. Interview to Gabriella Esposito De Vita and Stefania Ragozino”. Tracce Urbane Italian Journal of Urban Studies (32-38). Retrived from: https://ojs.uniroma1.it/index.php/TU/article/view/14304/14019

Esposito De Vita, G., Gravagnuolo & A., Ragozino S., Circular models for the city's complexity. Urbanistica informazioni. Retrieved from: http://www.urbanisticainformazioni.it/-278-s-i-.html

Esposito De Vita, G., Prospettive emancipatorie di un processo di rigenerazione urbana attento alle differenze culturali e di genere, in XX Conferenza Nazionale SIU - Società Italiana degli Urbanisti URBANISTICA E/È AZIONE PUBBLICA, Roma, Planum.

Fusco Girard, L., Gravagnuolo, A. & Esposito De Vita, G., Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse: the role of connective civic infrastructures. Urbanistica Informazioni. Retrieved from: http://www.urbanisticainformazioni.it/IMG/pdf/ui278si_sessione_speciale_4.pdf

Knierbein, S. & Viderman, T., Public Space Unbound: Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition. New York/London: Routledge

Knierbein, S., Public Space and Refugee Studies: Performing Emancipation, Resistance, and Opposition at Train Stations in Budapest and Vienna in 2015. Geographies. Greek Journal of Geography 32 (70-83).

Kränzle, E., Knierbein, S., Roskamm, N. & Sirbegovic, A., Architektur und Stadtplanung als solidarische Praxis. In: Harather, K., Stuefer, R. & Ettmüller, E. (eds) Flüchtlingsunterkunft Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, Wien Mitte: Ein Massenquartier wird zum Haus der Möglichkeiten  (pp. 60-62). Wien: TU Wien Verlag.

Knierbein, S. and Viderman, T., Space, Emancipation and Post-Political Urbanization. In: Knierbein, S and Viderman, T. (eds) Public Space Unbound. Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition (pp. 3-19). New York/London: Routledge.

Knierbein, S., Kraenzle, .E, Lehner, J. & Wall, E., Urban Culture, Public Space and the Future: Urban Equity and the Global Agenda. Exploring urban futures. Vienna: Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, TU Wien.

Knierbein, S., Kraenzle, E. & Wall, E., Excursion to East London: Urban Agendas caught between local needs and global pressures. Exploring urban presents. Vienna: Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, TU Wien.

Konjar, M., Nikšič, M.J, Grom, J., Mujkić, S. & Fikfak, A., Ensuring living condition for ageing population by public-private partnership (PPP). E3S Web of Conferences vol. 33 (1-13). doi: 10.1051/e3sconf/20183303002.

Kränzle, E., Knierbein, S., Roskamm, N. & Sirbegovic, A., Refugees and the City. In: K. Harather, R. Stuefer & E. Ettmüller (eds.). FlüchtlingsunterkunftVordereZollamtsstrasse 7 (pp. 68-70). Wien Mitte: TU Wien Verlag.

Mady, C., Alternative urban spaces in unstable contexts: Framing alternative urban spaces in unstable contexts A view from Beirut. In: Fisker, J. K., Chiappini, L., Pugalis, L. and Bruzzese, A. (eds) (2018) The Production of Alternative Urban Spaces An International Dialogue (pp. 41-57). New York and London: Routledge Regions and Cities series.

Mady, C., Public Space Activism in Unstable Contexts: Emancipation from Beirut’s Postmemory. In: Knierbein, S. and Viderman, T. (eds) Public Space Unbound Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition (pp. 189-206). New York, Oxon: Routledge.

Marchigiani, E. & Mattogno, C., Reflecting on the Legacy of Kevin Lynch’s Cognitive Approach to City Design through Italian Didactic Experiences. Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture 12 (12), 1934-7367. doi: 10.17265/1934-7359/2018.11.002

Marchigiani, E., Accessibility to welfare spaces in council housing neighborhoods of Trieste: Research at the interface of public policies and communities. [Special Issue: Public Spaces for Local Life]. Urbani Izziv 29(3), 43-62, doi: 10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2018-29-supplement-003

Mehaffy, M. & Low, S., From the Charter of Athens to the New Urban Agenda: Implications for Urban Form and Public Space. Journal of Public Space, 3(1), 165-170.

Million, A., Bürgow, G. & Steglich, A., Roof water-farm. Urbanes Wasser für urbane Landwirtschaft. Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin doi:10.14279/depositonce-6663.

Million, A., Sosteniendo la escalera. In: Martinez, V. N., Álvarez, J. R.,  X. M. Rosales & Seoane, O. V. (eds.): LUDANTIA. I Bienal Interantional de Educación en Arquitectura para a Infancia e a Mocidade (pp. 67-81). Pontevedra: Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia.

Million, A., Rosie P., & Coelen, T., Editorial: Policy, Practice and Research in Built Environment Education. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Urban Design and Planning, 171(1), 1–4. doi.org/10.1680/jurdp.2018.171.1.1.

Monteiro, A., Cruz, S., Conceição, P., Gonçalves, P. & Malafaya, F., Citizen Sensing: pode um Sistema participativo de gestão de risco contribuir para a resiliência urbana? Paper in proceedings - XVI Colóquio Ibérico de Geografia (pp. 5-7), Outubro, Lisboa.

Nikšič, M. & Butina Watson, G., Urban public open space in the mental image of users: the elements connecting urban public open spaces in a spatial network. Journal of urban design, 23(6), 859-882, doi: 10.1080/13574809.2017.1377066.

Nikšič, M., Tominc, B. & Goršič, N., Revealing residents' shared values through crowdsourced photography: experimental approach in participatory urban regeneration [Special Issue]. Urbani izziv, 29, 29-42, doi: 10.5379/urbani izziv-2018-29-supplement-002.

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*These lists have been established based on a call for response among the listed AESOP TG-PSUC members in winter 2018/19.

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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS

Category: Planning and Complexity

Published: 07 July 2019

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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS

Category: Public Spaces and Urban Cultures

Published: 15 May 2019

Title: Workshop of Knowledge Exchange between Research and Practice on ‘Public Space Design with Social Cohesion and Intercultural Dialogue in mind’

Date: Wednesday, 15 May 2019   10:00 – 15:20

Location: Cardiff University, John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU

Organizers: Dr.Patricia Aelbrecht, Cardiff University and Dr. Quentin Stevens, RMIT University, Australia

Theme
Over the last two decades, societies worldwide are facing serious challenges to achieve social cohesion. A context of rising diversity, austerity and a series of ethnic conflicts and terrorist attacks have brought about a culture of fear, intolerance and distrust of strangers in our everyday public spaces. This context has led to a series of top-down and bottom-up experiments in public space design and management seeking to promote social cohesion and intercultural dialogue. To date there have been few efforts to evaluate the outcomes of these experiments and to understand if and how social cohesion and intercultural dialogue have been realized.

This workshop will bring together academics, practitioners and policy-makers to share their knowledge and experience around this subject, and identify where new knowledge is needed in terms of public space theory, practice and policy. It seeks to develop an international network of expertise to support and expand future collaborations in intercultural public space research, practice and policy.

The workshop will begin with a series of short presentations by the invited speakers outlining their varied research and practice insights on the subject, followed by a discussion.

Invited Speaker:

Jane Dann, Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design, London.

Ceren Sezer, AESOP Public Spaces and Urban Cultures Thematic Group, TU Delft

Melissa Meyer, Regeneration & Economic Development, Greater London Authority

Noha Nasser, MELA, London.

Anna Mansfield, Publica, London.

Registration: Attendance is free but is limited to 30 people. If you would like to attend the workshop, please send an expression of interest of maximum150 words to both Patricia Aelbrecht (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Quentin Stevens (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

For more information, please visit https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/events/view/1483162-workshop-of-knowledge-exchange-between-research-and-practice-on-public-space-designworkshop-of-knowledge-exchange-between-research-and-practice-on-public-space-design-with-social-cohesion-and-intercultural-dialogue-in-mind.-with-social-cohesion-a?fbclid=IwAR1qBYwprpPwyF1gfvoXk6UTnH8y4DANkuOA5FSdfomy0g6IZn39f-v8K58

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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS

Category: Transboundary Planning and Governance

Published: 18 March 2019