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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS

Category: Transboundary Planning and Governance

Published: 31 May 2024

Inclusive and Cohesive Urban Development in European Cities

European Reflections and Learnings for a Post-War Urban Planning

Roundtable details

The roundtable discussion, to be held in the context of the PM4U project, will delve into the intricacies of inclusive urban development in EU, Ukraine and other European post-war countries. The rationale behind the PM4U project is grounded in the urgent need for projects of urban transformation address a spectrum of issues related to post-war recovery, giving special attention to the integration of lessons learned from wartime experiences. The topics covered will extend beyond the immediate challenges of post-war recovery and encompass broader issues pertinent to all European cities, such as resilience, safety, security, energy transition, climate change, and inclusion.

The roundtable serves as a crucial platform for addressing both challenges and opportunities faced by the academic community and regional authorities in the context of urban recovery. It aligns with the broader goals of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Program's. Through this initiative, the project aims to contribute to the development of strategies and approaches that can guide urban transformation in post-war settings towards greater inclusivity and resilience.

The primary objective is to facilitate the exchange of lessons learned, knowledge, and best practices among European cities and cities that have undergone post-war recovery processes. This initiative aims to connect the experiences of war, recovery, and transformation, fostering more inclusive, cohesive, and resilient European cities and cities of post-war countries.

Target Audience:

1. Academic Community:Professors, researchers, and students from relevant disciplines.
2. Regional Authorities:Representatives from local and regional governments, urban planning departments, and policymakers.

Terms and conditions

• Roundtable format is 
• Registration:https://forms.gle/Wxy8RUJk32DStLfu7
• Registration deadline:October 1, 2024
• On-sitepart of the roundtable will take place at Institute of Management of Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Vazovova 5, Bratislava, 812 43.
• Abstract Submissions Deadline- August 1, 2024
• Decision on selection of abstracts- August 15, 2024
• Paper Submissions Deadline- October 1, 2024
• Roundtable date- October 18, 2024

The programme of the Roundtable

Agenda

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Registration and Networking

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:45 AM - 11:00 AM: Section 1 - Inclusive and Resilience Cities: Understanding Needs, Overcoming Challenges, and Seizing Opportunities for Urban Transformation in Wartime

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM: Networking Break

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM: Section 1 - Inclusive and Resilience Cities: Understanding Needs, Overcoming Challenges, and Seizing Opportunities for Urban Transformation in Wartime

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM: Section 3 - Presentations from AESOP Representatives (Lessons learned from Europe to Ukraine and other postwar countries)

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM: Networking Break

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Section 4 - Challenges of wartime (Lessons learned for EUROPE)

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Closing Remarks and Next Steps

Submission

The official roundtable language is English.

All the papers need to be written and presented in English as well.

All accepted papers will be considered for publication in the "European Journal of Spatial Development" https://journals.polito.it/index.php/EJSD/index.

All submissions will be evaluated by a members of the Organizing Committee and/or external reviewers.

The journal publishes three types of articles: research articles, review articles and debate articles. Please check the journal website for more details: https://journals.polito.it/index.php/EJSD/about/submissions

All papers for participation in the roundtable (in DOC format) should be submitted via CMT Microsoft system : https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICUD2024

For more information about the roundtable please visit the website: https://pm4u.priestoroveplanovanie.sk/content/events/event-icud/

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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS

Category: Ethics, Values and Planning

Published: 08 April 2024

The AESOP Thematic Group on Ethics, Values, and Planning invites you to join an online event on Thursday, May 16, 2024, from 4 to 5:30 pm (CET) with Juval Portugali*, editor of the book “The Crisis of Democracy in the Age of Cities” (2023, Edward Elgar). 

The book provides an overview of historical, present, and future perspectives of cities and urbanism associated with the current crisis of democracy. You can find the link here: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-crisis-of-democracy-in-the-age-of-cities-9781803923048.html.

 *Juval Portugali is a professor of Human Geography and Head of the City Center-Tel Aviv University Research Center for Cities and Urbanism. 

IMPORTANT: Register for the event before May 10 at the following link: https://forms.gle/xawZUcRrVvoypztdA (you will receive a Zoom-link a few days before the event).

Contacts/organisers:  Stefano Cozzolino (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Anita De Franco (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Stefano Moroni (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

You can have access to:

• The introduction of the book: https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781803923055/book-part-9781803923055-6.xml
• The first chapter by Juval Portugali: “The crisis of democracy in the age of cities and complexity”: https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781803923055/book-part-9781803923055-8.xml

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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS

Category: Planning and Complexity

Published: 02 April 2024

28-29 November 2024, RWTH Aachen University

Time is too often a peripheral element in scholarly and practical discourses. It is frequently treated as a neutral background factor instead of an active force that shapes cities and their planning. However, complex socio-spatial systems continuously evolve and transform over time in ways that are sometimes predictable, and others spontaneous; sometimes slow, and others fast. Planners are at the frontline of this change, and yet, how well do they understand or leverage wisdom about time? 

This conference seeks to deepen our understanding of intricate socio-spatial configurations and changes by studying their timing, speed, sequence, durability, and the enduring or fleeting impacts they leave. It welcomes the exploration of dynamics and methodologies characterized by time-sensitive interests. It invites scholars with interdisciplinary backgrounds to delve into innovative analytical, design, and planning methods that can empower planners, policymakers, and designers to better understand and use time in addressing contemporary urban challenges and opportunities across various scales.

Possible avenues for submissions include (in alphabetical order):

Sensing: This encompasses various dimensions of ‘sensing’ such as spatial, corporeal, cognitive, mediated, and technological aspects. We explore the points of convergence among diverse perspectives and approaches, the representation or mission of whose sensing, and the implications for sensing and sense-making. How can we capture and conceptualize diverse socio-spatial rhythms, layers, and processes of change that give rise to distinct and recognizable patterns? Access to new forms of data and technologies is a crucial aspect of this discussion.

Planning: Developing effective temporal awareness to use planning actions that are sensitive to timing, speed, and (un)expected effects is a real challenge. Rooted in longstanding ideas and practices, planning interventions and debates are often driven by present urgencies but struggle to keep pace with continuous changes. How can we point towards socio-spatial transformations that often transgress dominant timeframes? The focus here is the exploration of modes or methods for policymaking and strategies for spatial governance.

Designing: Design processes that prioritize time navigate the delicate balance between providing optimal short-term solutions and addressing long-term unpredictable dynamics. We are interested in unraveling the time-sensitive tensions that affect design logic and exploring design frameworks that can accommodate complexity. To what extent do current design ideals and practices perpetuate limitations in our understanding of the temporal dimension? The composition of the built and natural environments along with their rules are central aspects of this question.

Submission details

• Target audience: Early career researchers (e.g. PhD candidates) and seniors (e.g. Professors, Seniors Researchers), practitioners with scholars' interest
• Abstract Length: up to 350 words
• Keywords: Provide 3-5 keywords relevant to your submission
• References: Provide 3-5 major references relevant to your submission
• Abstract Submission Deadline: June 9, 2024
• Extended Abstracts Submission & Registration Deadline: mid-late October 2024

Submission

Submit via https://forms.gle/w5XQxQnr7yUZ1Ehc7

Contact

The event is organised by Robin Chang, Fabio Bayro Kaiser and Stefano Cozzolino (local organising team 2024), with support from Christian Lamker and Ward Rauws (thematic group coordinators). Contact via email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Logo/poster design by Esther Padberg (RWTH Aachen)

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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS

Category: Public Spaces and Urban Cultures

Published: 06 February 2024

 The report following this symposium is available here.

The fifth event of the two-year period 2022-2024 on the working theme ‘Public Spaces, Urban Cultures, and Constructing Peace’ will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus on 30 and 31 May 2024. It will be an in-presence symposium entitled ‘Constructing Peace through Public Space: What publics? Whose commons?’ The symposium will be organized at the Goethe Institute and Home for Cooperation in the Buffer Zone of Nicosia, Cyprus.

Aim of the Symposium

The symposium aims to examine the relationships between the publics and peace-building processes in contested cities, with the intention to answer the following questions:

• How do we create spaces for conciliation to transform conflicts constructively?
• How does the active agency of the urban environment support or cancel out conciliation processes?
• Should public space be taken for granted, or should it be part of creating common ground in deeply divided societies?
• What is the role of civil societies and bottom-up initiatives?
• How do commoning practices support the diversity of publics in peacebuilding and related planning processes?
• Can urban challenges of common concern regarding social-ecological transformations (climate and other crises) trigger such commoning practices, and how?

Why Cyprus?

The location of Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean offers a unique venue at the confluence of three continents and a multitude of cultures that face such unique challenges. Many of these challenges are the result of not only long-standing local issues but also of issues that have emanated from recent conflicts in the surrounding region. The island in general and Nicosia, a divided European capital with a prolonged history of conflict, internal refugees' displacements, migration and tourist flows, economic fluctuations, and rapid, often abrupt urban transformations, serve as an ideal laboratory to explore, unravel, and question public space development in unstable and contested contexts. The local urban context provides a valuable case study and can unveil the complexity of all the factors that condition the various forms of public space in contemporary contested, continuously transformed contexts.

The Symposium Format

The Cyprus symposium comprises two-day activities that bring together scholars, activists, and spatial practitioners who deal with peacebuilding and conflict transformation through spatial measures. It is organized in roundtable workshops that will summon diverse participants who will share their work based on the above-mentioned questions. The layout of the roundtable workshops aims to foster constructive discussion and exchange among the participants. Some workshops will be ambulant, exposing the participants to the Nicosia contested context. Thus, the participation format will be open to encourage a diversity of means and ends to populate the roundtable debates.

Who can Participate?

Scholars, activists, and spatial practitioners who deal with peacebuilding and conflict transformation through public space and material practices are invited to participate.

Format of Participation

Short interventions in the form of oral presentations or videos (10-15 minutes).

Submissions

A submission including the title, authors' names, authors' affiliation and email address, 3-5 keywords, an abstract of max 200 words, and max 4 images (JPEG 300 dpi as separate files) and captions should be sent to the following e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Important Dates

• 2 February 2024 Open call for participation
• 1 March 2024 Deadline for participation interests
• 8 March 2024 Participation approvals
• 1 May 2024 Program announcement Symposium
• 30-31 May 2024 Symposium
• 1 July 2024 Submission of full papers
• September 2024 Publication

Publications

The symposium findings, including all presentations and discussions during the symposium, will be published online following the event. The book of abstracts will also be published pre-symposium. Both publications will have ISBNs.

Scientific Committee

Evangelia Athanassiou, Nadia Charalambous, Sabine Knierbein, Sebnem Hoskara, Socrates Stratis