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A joint event of EU Human Cities partnership and Association of European School of Planning (AESOP) Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures hosted by Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS) and University of Ljubljana, Faculty of architecture (UL-FA), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 24 May 2017.
PUBLIC SPACES FOR LOCAL LIFE /
Shared values in diversified urban communities as a foundation for participatory provision of local public spaces.
The Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS) and partners hosted a 5-day international event addressing participatory planning of local urban public space in socially, economically and ethnically diverse communities. The event was structured in three interrelated activities: a seminar, a workshop and a field-trip. Special emphasis was given to the means of revealing shared values that local inhabitants and other users of local environments have in common, and are an important base for collaborative improvements of local environments.
This joint event was the meeting point between two different European work groups: Human Cities and the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP).
On the one hand, the AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures (AESOP TG PSUC)values a critical and constructive dialogue on the processes relating to series of events related to its current umbrella theme UNSTABLE GEOGRAPHIES – DISLOCATED PUBLICS (2016-2018). Meetings of the AESOP TG PSUC equally involve researchers and practitioners, locals and guests. The proposed umbrella topic aims to explore and rethink relations amongst different concepts and meanings related to (1) cities facing austerity, crisis, and a variety of migration patterns, and (2) to civic responses, such as emerging practices of self-organization, social innovation, and planners’ investments in building solidarity, hope, and trust. The topic has been approached in a dialectical manner and conceived as a dynamic framework that allows for the exploration of various (relational) aspects of public spaces and urban cultures, as well as socio-theoretical approaches to critically investigate and shape these spaces and cultures.
On the other hand, the European partnership Human Cities (2008-2010, 2010-2012, 2014-2018) is addressing the issue of citizen participation in contemporary urban design. A particular focus is on bottom-up initiatives that self-organize in order to improve public spaces in their living environments. Important pillars of the project are research, experimental and educational activities related to public spaces. The main goal is two-fold: (1) to help citizens develop their affinity with common urban spaces and strengthen their approaches to participatory re-design of these spaces; (2) to advance the theoretical foundations in the field of participatory provision of urban public spaces. It also stresses the importance of citizen's shared values in relation to their public urban spaces, such as empathy, wellbeing, intimacy, sustainability, conviviality, mobility, accessibility, imagination, leisure, aesthetics, sensoriality, solidarity and respect.
On the first day of the event, 23 May 2017, Stefania Ragozino (IRISS CNR) held a lecture titled Possible trajectories to navigate neo-liberal urbanism in UK. Hybrid organizations to implement activist planning. She presented a heritage-led regeneration process led by a social cultural enterprise which is a rather new approach in Slovenian context and encouraged lively debate among the discussants.
On the second day, 24 May 2017, a Human Cities & AESOP joined seminar PUBLIC SPACES FOR LOCAL LIFE was held in the Faculty of Architecture (UL) of Ljubljana in Slovenia.The seminar was started by Matej Nikšič (UIRS) with a short introduction of the Ljubljana’s Human Cities Event, followed by the welcome speeches by the director of Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS) Igor Bizjak and the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana Peter Gabrijelčič.
The past and ongoing activities of Human Cities partnership in Europe and specifically in St. Etienne (France) were introduced by the international lead of the project Josyane Franc (Cité du design), while Stefania Ragozino (IRISS CNR) presented aims and activities of AESOP’s Thematic Group for Public Space and Urban Cultures.
The keynote speech was given by Davide Fassi from the Politecnico di Milano. He presented actions in the public spaces that are based on co-design principles and enable people to make things happen in their living environments. He pointed out the role of universities in local communities as activators and developers of prototypes in cooperation with local residents, who take the role of not only beneficiaries but also activists that can sustain these activities in a long term.
After the keynote two authors had the opportunity to argue on the topics they proposed to an open call for contributions. Boštjan Bugarič (Faculty of Architecture, Ljubljana) explained his work on communication tools for designing public space, while Tomaž Pipan (Biotechnical Faculty, UL) gave a lecture on spatial data and interaction technologies in public participation. The first session and the discussion was moderated by Stefania Ragozino (IRISS CNR).
In a second part of the seminar, many authors presented their research or practical work in a form of pechakucha – presentation style in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each. Vincent Chukwuemeka (Department of Architecture, Ghent) introduced his thesis related to collective spaces of informal and formal markets as drivers of self-organisation processes of urban growth on the case of Nigeria. Merve Demiroz (Polytechnic of Turin) presented potentials of self-organized communities in the urban regeneration on the case of Izmir, Turkey. The role of open space for the healthy childhood and active ageing was presented by Katarina Ana Lestan (Biotechnical Faculty, UL), while Marta Popaszkiewicz (Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw) talked about the commonly created public spaces on the case of Warsaw local centers. Vojko Vavpotič (Local renewal office of Planina neighbourhood, Kranj) explained how they are pioneering the establishment of a local regeneration office – first of its kind in Slovenia. Andrej Pogačnik addressed the topic of the reconstruction of unbuilt areas within housing communities and exposed the privatization issues. Similarly, Zala Velkavrh (KD prostoRož) tackled the issue of ownership in the renewal of public spaces in residential neighbourhoods, which is characteristic for the post socialist cities. Ewa Gołębiowska (Zamek Cieszyn) elaborated on the need of comprehensive approach to urban regeneration on the case of mobility issues in her city. Ilona Gurjanova (Estonian Association of Designers) concluded the session by arguing that in order to enjoy urban public open space fully one also needs to have a chance of escape into his intimate, relaxation space. Second session was moderated by Stefania Ragozino (IRISS CNR, AESOP TG representative) and Weronika Mazurkiewicz (Gdansk University of Technology, AESOP TG representative). After pechakucha presentations all presenters and audience had fruitful and inspiring debates about the issue presented during the session. This second part of the seminar was closed by Matej Nikšič (UIRS) who also introduced the final session.
The concluding session was opened by Luka Skansi (Faculty of Architecture, Reka and Ljubljana) who made an introduction of Ruski Carneighbourhood, in which the next day of the event a workshop was going to be held. He exposed the basic urban planning and design principles that guided the conception of the neighbourhood and put them in a broader context of what was then Yugoslav and international urban planning. The final presentation was given by Damjana Zaviršek Hudnik from civil initiative Skupaj na ploščad!who presented the already existing participatory approaches at Bratovševa ploščad, the central open space of Ruski carneighbourhood.
On the third day, 25 May 2017, a series of workshops took place in the northern outskirt of Ljubljana, in the Ruski car neighbourhood.
First workshop PHOTOSTORY OF OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD was led by Matej Nikšič and Biba Tominc (UIRS). The workshop was a re-dress of a 2016 action when the residents of housing estates in Slovenia and abroad were invited to analyze their living environments through photography and attached captions. The participants walked through the estate with their cameras and took pictures of the neighbourhood with five analytical categories in mind. At the end of the workshop, they submitted the photos to the digital archives along with the captions to be later added to UIRS’s page to the Photostory of our neighbourhood.
Second workshop WE DRAW! A SKETCHWALK THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD was organized by Tanja Simonič Korošak (Studio TSK). Participants learned how to use 'shorthand' sketchbook technique to draw objects, landscapes and people. On a walk through the neighborhood they stopped at three places, and by drawing the observed scenes and events, became part of these places. That way, experience became not only visual, but multi-sensorial. Followed by short demonstration of sketching, the participants tried to capture into their sketchbooks the action in open public space and people in the urban context. At the end the sketches were digitalized.
Third workshop CO-DESIGNING LOCAL PUBLIC SPACES WITH CHILDREN – LET'S MAKE NEIGHBOURS' CORNER was organized by Nina Goršič (UIRS) Damjana Zaviršek Hudnik and Sandra Banfi Škrbec (Skupaj na ploščad!). In this workshop participants worked together to set up two nodes of encounter at Bratovševa ploščad. Thus, they created a small point in space where they tried to incorporate a variety of activities that can connect the inhabitants of residential area while entertaining, gardening, reading, caring for plants and animals, etc. They built the insects&birds house, added a bulletin board to one of them and knjigobežnica – a bookshelf – to the other. They completed the new arrangements by planting honey-plants. Local herbalists and pupils from local primary school also joined this workshop.
The fourth workshop SETTING UP AN OPEN-AIR MEETING ROOM was organized by Alenka Fikfak, Miha Konjar, Janez Grom and Urša Kalčič (Faculty of architecture, Ljubljana). Workshop followed the invited call for ideas to the students of the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana to thinking of a "gathering space" at Bratovševa platform under the patronage of Lafarge Ltd. The participants together with students set up a temporary wooden pavilion. The pavilion is inviting residents to pause in open public space and at the same time serves as an exhibition space for the students' submitted projects proposals during summer months.
The day ended with official opening of the HUMAN CITIES EXHIBITION LJUBLJANA at four different locations in the neighborhood. The official opening talk was held by the president of the local council Amir Crnojević. First exhibition titled SHARED VALUES OF HUMAN CITIES addressed the importance of the values that local inhabitants share in order to set up common visions for the future of their living environments in general and public spaces in particular. The second section of the exhibition titled PUBLIC SPACE AND PARTICIPATION THROUGH THE EYES OF CHILDREN presented the process and results of seven workshops with local children rising various questions related to participatory urbanism and culture of built space. The third section titled PHOTOSTORY OF OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD presented winning photos that were submitted to the public call for analytical photo-stories of large housing estates. The last exhibition titled STUDENTS' IDEAS FOR BRATOVŠEVA PLOŠČAD presented the ideas of future young urban planners for the redesign of Bratovševa pločad. Along the exhibition opening UIRS awarded the winners of the Photostory of our neighborhood competition and the call for student’s ideas.
The evening program of the third day of the event was the opening of BIO 25 at the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) and the installation at Županova jama cave near Ljubljana.
The morning of the fourth day, 26 May 2017, was reserved for a technical meeting of Human Cities. In the afternoon, a walking tour by an architect and urban planner Ivan Stanič (City of Ljubljana) revealed how the city of Ljubljana approached the urban regeneration of the central part of the city through public space improvements. The official programme ended by a nice boat trip along Ljubljanica river and later on at the Odprta kuhna/Open Kitchen, open-air restaurants place at Ljubljana Market.
Some conclusionscan be given about revealing shared values that local inhabitants and other users of local environments have in common as an important base for collaborative improvements of local environments. The different typologies of participants, the event organization and the interesting context of Ljubljana, have permitted to carry on a double in-depth analysis about issues of AESOP TG PSUC's current umbrella theme UNSTABLE GEOGRAPHIES – DISLOCATED PUBLICS (2016-2018); from one hand to observe, know and compare experiences came from different parts of the world linked together from a common objective – to give attention to people and to places they live; from another hand it was possible to develop themes shared both from the AESOP TG PSUC and Human Cities through the direct experience done in Ljubljana specifically in the Ruski car neighbourhood where a series of workshop have stimulated the interaction.
The meeting of people from different places of origin or working and their different roles, researchers, practitioners, local and guests, permitted a real theoretical and practical debate on AESOP TG PSUC's developing themes. More specifically, what does living public space during austerity mean, in which way self-organised activities can produce positive impact on communities, on planning policies and participatory practices, how to support citizens in re-designing their common space, and, the last but not the least, developed categories – empathy, wellbeing, intimacy, sustainability, conviviality, mobility, accessibility, imagination, leisure, aesthetics, sensoriality, solidarity and respect – helped to deal with several issues by identifying main themes and practical action to carry on.
Scientific committees:
- Alenka Fikfak, Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Weronika Mazurkiewicz, Gdansk Politechnical University, Gdansk, Poland (AESOP TG representative)
- Matej Nikšič, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia (AESOP local host)
- Stefania Ragozino, Institute of Research for Innovation and Services for Development, Naples, Italy (AESOP TG representative)
Organizing committees:
- Heloise Gautier, Sciences Po Rennes, France
- Nina Goršič, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Blaž Jamšek, Civil initiative Skupaj na ploščad!, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Natalija Lapajne, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Biba Tominc, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia (AESOP TG member)
- Damjana Zaviršek Hudnik, Civil initiative Skupaj na ploščad!, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Related links:
- Human Cities website: www.humancities.eu, humancities.uirs.si
- Association of European Schools of Planning: Thematic Group for Public Spaces and Urban Cultures
- For more information on the meeting, please visit https://humancities.uirs.si/en-gb/
- To read the Book of Contributions, please visit https://humancities.uirs.si/portals/4/NEW%20-%20Book%20of%20Contributions.pdf
- To see the catalogue of Human Cities exhibition, please visit https://humancities.uirs.si/portals/4/Human%20Cities%20Catalogue%20Ljubljana2017.pdf
Report by Weronika Mazurkiewicz, Gdansk Politechnical University (Gdansk, Poland), Matej Nikšič, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Stefania Ragozino, Institute of Research for Innovation and Services for Development (Naples, Italy), Biba Tominc, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
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Matej Nikšič (Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia) and Ceren Sezer(Delft University of Technology) prepared a new special issue for the journal of Built Environment themed "Public space and urban justice". The issue brings together an international set of cases from Ankara, Amsterdam, Auckland, Beirut, Ljubljana and Medellin, which reflect on the question " what are the ways of studying public space to promote urban justice in the city?". The contributors of this special issue relate various qualities of public space to three aspects of the just city: diversity, equity and democracy. The special issue will be available by the end of June 2017. More information about this publication is available at the following link:
http://www.alexandrinepress.co.uk/blogged-environment/public-space-urban-justice-new
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We would like to draw your attention to the UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2017 at Queen's University in Belfast. We will host a track on "Public Space and the City" to which we would highly welcome your contributions:
"Public spaces play a vital role in the political, economic and socio-cultural transformation of cities. Increasingly plurality in our cities has meant that new definitions, purpose and perceptions of public spaces emerge and are contested in everyday practices. The competing interests manifesting in privatization of public spaces, informal and temporal use of spaces for commercial purposes, and the emergence of new actors have meant that new boundaries are continuously formed and negotiated between people, institutions and the state. The session calls for papers that capture the various dimensions of public space. This includes its positioning and influence on the multi-scalar urbanism that comprises a number of distinct but the connected network of actors, institutions and claims demonstrating complex power relations, narratives of resistance, and civic movements."
The call for abstract submissions is open until 26 May. Please visit https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/PRC2017/ for more information. We are looking forward to seeing you in Belfast!
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Annual Report for 2016
Organized by Stefania Ragozino, Sabine Knierbein and Gabriella Esposito de Vita, in collaboration with further TG members
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 2016 the Group continued its endeavours 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 2016 the group’s membership rose to over 68 professionals working with public space, including practitioners and researchers, from both Europe and beyond. The year 2016 was important as a ‘switch year’ between the previous umbrella topic “Becoming Local” (2013-2015) and the new umbrella topic “Unstable geographies – Dislocated publics” (2016-2018). In parallel, the decisions to reorganize and more systematically distribute the challenges to internally organize the group taken during the AESOP TG 2015 meeting in Oporto have been implemented, with a new self-organized management group coming into being, which are headed by two senior group members in mutual dialogue and active horizontal exchange with all contributors (see list below).
Internal organisation of the group*
A collective made up of group members organises 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 meeting 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 2016 (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), Sara Santos Cruz (Portugal), Ceren Sezer (Netherlands/Turkey), Tihomir Viderman (Austria/Croatia)
The list of members who (co-)organized meetings in 2016 and who will (co-)organize meetings in 2017/8:
2016
Christine Mady - Faculty of Architecture, Art, and Design (FAAD), at the Notre Dame University Louaize
2017
Tihomir Viderman, Elina Kränzle, Sabine Knierbein - Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, TU Wien
Biba Tominc /Nina Goršič /Matej Niksic - Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia
Gabriella Esposito De Vita, Sabine Knierbein, Ceren Sezer - AESOP Annual Conference 2017, Lisbon, Portugal
Carlo Cellamare - Tracce Urbane and Laboratory of Urban Studies, La Sapienza Rome
2018
Marleen Buizer - Land Use Planning Group, Wageningen University
Nadia Charalambous - Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus
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) and Nikolai Roskamm (Germany) (Main Volunteers), Nadia Charalambous (Cyprus) (Secondary Volunteer)
Public Relations
Stefania Ragozino (Secondary Volunteer)
Public Liaison
Tihomir Viderman (Austria/Croatia) (Main Volunteer), Elina Kränzle (Austria) (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.
Group’s activities in 2016
This year was the common ground for expired working theme Becoming Local (2014-2016) and coming working theme Unstable Geographies – Dislocated Publics (2016-2018). During this year, the entire work regarding the documentation of events realized under the former umbrella topic was carried out to collect results. In addition, a new focus on research and publication affairs has been set by launching a Call for papers in a Special Issue in the Journal of Urban Design to reflect on the results of the previous umbrella theme. The work regarding the actual research focus includes group work for drafting and finalizing jointly the agenda of the current umbrella theme and the related call for hosting an event between 2016 and 2018. As a result, the following Unstable Geographies – Dislocated Publics Meetings will be organized: Wien (Austria, 29th-31st March 2017), Ljubljana (Slovenia, 25-27th May 2017), Lisbon (Portugal, July 2017), Rome (Italy, Autumn 2017), Amsterdam (Netherlands, March 2018), Nicosia (Cyprus, May 2018), Gothenburg, (Sweden, July 2018). The first meeting within this new series took place in Beirut, Lebanon, in November 2016.
Table of the TG’s 2016-2018 events
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10th/11th November 2016 |
Christine Mady |
Faculty of Architecture, Art, and Design (FAAD), at the Notre Dame University Louaize |
Louaize. Lebanon |
Matej Niksic (Slovenia) Nadia Charalambous (Cyprus) |
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29th-31st March 2017 |
Sabine Knierbein Elina Kränzle Tihomir Viderman |
Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, TU Wien |
Vienna, Austria |
Gabriella Esposito de Vita (Italy) Katarzyna Bartoszewicz (Poland)
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25th/26th/ (27th) May 2017 |
Biba Tominc / Nina Goršič / Matej Niksic
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Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia |
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Weronika Mazurkiewicz (Poland) Stefania Ragozino (Italy)
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11th-14th July 2017 |
Gabriella Esposito de Vita* Sabine Knierbein* Ceren Sezer* |
AESOP Annual Conference 2017, Lisbon, Portugal |
Lisbon, Portugal* |
Sara Santos Cruz* Katarzyna Bartoszewicz* Nikolai Roskamm* Plus: All TG members attending the conference and further colleagues |
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Autumn 2017 |
Carlo Cellamare |
Tracce Urbane and Laboratory of Urban Studies, La Sapienza Rome |
Rome, Italy |
Sabine Knierbein (Austria) Burcu Yigit Turan (Turkey)
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March 2018 |
Marleen Buizer |
Land Use Planning Group, Wageningen University |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Burcu Yigit Turan (Turkey) Sara Santos Cruz (Portugal)
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May 2018 |
Nadia Charalambous
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Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus |
Nicosia, Cyprus |
Ceren Sezer (The Netherlands) Nikolai Roskamm (Germany)
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July 2018 |
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AESOP Annual Conference 2018, Gothenborg, Sweden |
Gothenborg, Sweden |
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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, scheduled and 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 shared with local and TG network through Social Media and Public Relations TG volunteers.
Finalizing umbrella theme “Becoming Local”
Under the working theme Becoming Local, the group engaged in the exploration of multifaceted aspects of public spaces, in which the processes of urban transformation are the most visible. These processes are not considered static or fixed in character, rather permanent in flow. This is particularly the case in the context of international mobility and migration, accompanied and impacted by the global financial crisis and changes in the labour markets. In this context, public spaces perform more and more as a platform for changing cultural values and rituals that are displayed, contested, managed and commodified. From this standpoint, Becoming Local approached public spaces as arenas of conflict, negotiation and consensus among different actors who shape the city. It also suggested that there is an increasing need for creative approaches and strategies to allow vulnerable and marginalised urban groups (beyond so-called mainstream society) to take part in this process, either through individual or collective strategies.
The group explored and rethought relations between the concepts, meanings and people related to construction of (local) spaces and places, policies and practices, and everyday life considering three perspectives:
• Public space as an interface of both local and global processes
• The social production of meaningful places
• Material and immaterial dimensions of post-Fordist restructuring
Starting the new umbrella topic “Unstable Geographies – Dislocated Publics”
The working theme Unstable Geographies – Dislocated Publics recognises 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 mobilities 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 2016
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February 2016 Call for interest |
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Working theme 2016-2018 Unstable Geographies – Dislocated Publics |
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The AESOP Thematic Group for Public Spaces and Urban Cultures (AESOP TG PS-UC) has opened a call to potential institutional partners, in Europe and beyond, to host the group’s meeting in the series UNSTABLE GEOGRAPHIES - DISLOCATED PUBLICS, during the period from 2016 to 2018. Previous meetings of the Thematic Group have been organised under the themes of “Conviviality” (2010-2012; in Vienna, Ljubljana, Naples, Brussels, and Lisbon) and “Becoming Local” (2013-2015; in Istanbul, Bucharest, Vienna, Paris, Rome, Glasgow, and Oporto). The new topic UNSTABLE GEOGRAPHIES - DISLOCATED PUBLICS has been developed during the group’s meetings in Prague and Oporto between July and September 2015. This umbrella topic builds on the group’s approaches and activities aimed to critically reflect upon, analyse, and discuss current trends and tendencies in public spaces and urban cultures in the fields of urban research, design, and planning. |
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July 2016 Call for papers |
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Special issue in the Journal of Urban Design – Becoming Local: inquires into public space practices, meanings and values |
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Call for papers for a special issue in Journal of Urban Design has the goal to assemble and to precise insights of the becoming local series. We encourage contributors from the different workshops as well as other authors, who report from different fronts of becoming local in public space. This call brings out the topics discussed, namely, by:
Given the above, the aim of this special issue is to explore relevant debates on public space, bringing together researchers and case studies from different urban contexts. The outcome aims to contribute to the debate of achieving a consensus to create inclusive public spaces. |
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9-11 November First meeting series Unstable Geographies – Dislocated Publics Organized and hosted by the Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design at the Notre Dame University – Louaize Beirut, Lebanon |
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A three days meeting of the AESOP Thematic Group for Public Spaces and Urban Cultures (AESOP TG PSUC) was organized and hosted by the Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design at the Notre Dame University – Louaize in Beirut, Lebanon. This meeting launched the new thematic series: Unstable Geographies – Dislocated Publics which aims at addressing current issues related to public spaces common to cities globally, from an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective, while engaging a variety of actors and stakeholders through four themes:
The purpose of the Beirut meeting, organized in parallel to the City Street2 Conference was to unfold themes under the title of the series within the local and unstable context of Beirut. Based on the characteristics and issues in Beirut that are also pertinent to other cities in the global South as well as the global North, this TG meeting focused on the two sub-themes: City, Refugees and Migration, and Fragmented Social Fabric: Individualised Patterns of Consumption. |
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Funded Research Projects*
Some of the research projects funded by urban, regional, national or European research councils
Gabriella Esposito De Vita and Stefania Ragozino –
Institute of Research on Innovation and Services for Development IRISS - National Research Council of Italy CNR, Naples
STRATEGIE E POLITICHE PLACE-BASED PER LO SVILUPPO LOCALE
Duration: 2016-2018
Coordinator: Gabriella Esposito De Vita (IRISS CNR)
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
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz -
Architekturzentrum Wien (AzW), Vienna, Austria
FROM “A ROOF OW MY OWN” TO A CITY OF OUR OWN
Duration: 2016-2018
Funding scheme: Building and Social Housing Foundation BSHF, UK
TERRA-LAB.CAT: A RESEARCH ON THE VISUAL IMAGINARY OF CATALONIA
Duration: 2016-2018
Coordinators: Vicenç Altaió, Ignasi López, Sergi Opisso and Román Yñán
Funding scheme: Fundació Carulla, Barcelona, Spain
Jeff Hou -
College of Built Environments, University of Washington, USA
NEW URBAN-RURAL RELATIONS IN ASIA: TRANS-PACIFIC PERSPECTIVES ON RESILIENT CITY-REGIONS
Duration: 2015-2016
Coordinator: Dan Abramson
Partners: Manish Chalana, Jeffrey Hou, Ken Oshima, Vikram Prakash, John D. Scott, and Dongsheng Zhang
Funding scheme: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Themes and expected results: planning for environmental and social resilience; international workshop
More info at: http://depts.washington.edu/asianurb/resilience-and-asian-urbanism-a-collaborative-workshop/
CREATIVE URBAN COMMONING AS DEMOCRATIC PLACEMAKING IN CONTEMPORARY HONG KONG
Duration: 2015-2016
Coordinator: Jeffrey Hou
Partner: None
Funding scheme: China Studies Research Grant, University of Washington
Themes and expected results: Urban commoning, public space and democracy; journal article
More info at: N/A
Sabine Knierbein -
Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
CITY OF VIENNA VISITING PROFESSORSHIP PROGRAMME
Duration: 2008-ongoing
Coordinator: Associate Professor, Dr. phil. Sabine Knierbein
Partners: City of Vienna, Administrative Group for Urban Development, Traffic and Transport, Climate Protection, Engery and Public Participation, City of Vienna; Group Planning, Magistratsdirektion der Stadt Wien, Geschäftsbereich Bauten und Technik, Stadtbaudirektion - Gruppe Planung
Expected Results/Impact: Revision of Teaching Curricula in Architecture and Planning through the lenses of public space and urban cultures; Social Innovation and University as main drivers for fair urban transformation.
More info at: http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at/en/professors
Matej Nikšič -
Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana
HUMAN CITIES - CHALLENGING THE CITY SCALE
Duration: 2015-2018
Coordinator: La Cité du design
Partners: La Cité du design (FR), Politecnico di Milano (IT), Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (SI),Clear Village (UK), Zamek Cieszyn (PL), Association Design Week Belgrade (RS), Pro Materia (BE), Aalto University (FI), FH Joanneum (AT), Association of Estonian designers (EST), Beaz (ES),Culture Lab (BE)
Funding scheme: Creative Europe – European Commission
Themes and expected results: 1.Review of State of the Art in the field of civil society reclaiming public space (on-line and printed publication) 2.Experimentation labs (on-line and printed publication) 3. Travelling exhibition (on-line and in situ exhibition materials and catalogues) 4. Local conferences and workshops (reports) 5. Final symposium (September 2018).
More info at: www.humancities.eu
PEOPLE FRIENDLY CITIES IN A DATA RICH WORLD
Duration: 2012-2016
Coordinator: Mark Dyer, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Partners: 29 European countries
Funding scheme: COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) office
Themes and expected results: (1) Specification and evaluation an evolving framework for collaborative urbanism; (2) Facilitation of a dialogue about how the software of a city can be combined with the hardware of a city to promote smart and liveable cities; (3) Development of a knowledge platform; (4) Provision of training to a community of Early Stage Researchers in interdisciplinary research and practice; (5)People friendly Cities Forum (to be held in Brussels in late 2016)
More info at: http://w3.cost.eu/fileadmin/domain_files/TUD/Action_TU1204/mou/TU1204-e.pdf
Nikolai Roskamm -
Fakultät Architektur und Stadtplanung, Fachhochschule Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
ASSOCIATED APPLICANT, GRADUIERTENKOLLEG IDENTITÄT UND ERBE
Duration: 2016-2020
Funding scheme: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Themes and expected results:
Sara Santos Cruz -
CITTA Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment, from the University of Porto, Portogallo
PEOPLE FRIENDLY CITIES IN A DATA RICH WORLD
Duration: 2012-2016
Coordinator: Mark Dyer, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Partners: 29 European countries
Funding scheme: COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) office
Themes and expected results: 1.Specification and evaluation an evolving framework for collaborative urbanism; 2.Facilitationof a dialogue about how the software of a city can be combined with the hardware of a city to promote smart and liveable cities; 3.Developmentof a knowledge platform; 4.Provisionoftraining to a community of Early Stage Researchers in interdisciplinary research and practice; 5.PeoplefriendlyCities Forum (to be held in Brussels in late 2016)
More info at: http://w3.cost.eu/fileadmin/domain_files/TUD/Action_TU1204/mou/TU1204-e.pdf
MIA - METABOLIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT: FROM CONCEPT TO PRACTICE
Duration: 2016-2019
Coordinator: Paulo Pinho
Partners: CITTA Team (Anastassios Perdicoulis, Cecília Silva, Luísa Mendes Batista, Paulo Pinho [coordinator], Ruben Fernandes, Sara Santos Cruz, Vítor Oliveira), Lisbon City Council, Oporto City Council, Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo (CCDRLVT), Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional Do Norte (CCDRN)
Funding scheme: FCT (Portuguese National Foundation)
Themes and expected results: main themes of this project are urban metabolism, assessment of plans and urban projects, cities and metropolitan areas, Strategic Environmental Assessment. Main expected results are development of MIA plug-in into SEA; development of four user-friendly and efficient models for four urban metabolism components: energy (considering both for the buildings and transport sector), water, land-use and material; an improved version of the Metabolic Impact Assessment Methodology, both in procedural and methodological terms.
More info at: http://citta.fe.up.pt/projects/mia-metabolic-impact-assessment-from-concept-to-practice
Georgiana Varna –
Newcastle University, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle, United Kingdom
WHOLE - A COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE EFFICIENCY MODEL OF URBAN STRUCTURE
Coordinator: Prof Panu Lehtovuori, Tampere Technical University, Tampere, Finland
Funding Scheme: Finnish Government
Teaching Activities of Group Members*
Naomi Adiv
Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University, Oregon, USA
Lecture: course “PUBLIC SPACE”
Hosting institution: Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland, Oregon
Vera-Karina Gebhardt
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, School of Business and Economics
Lecture: “INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN, DESIGN HISTORIES, DESIGN MANAGEMENT”
Hosting institution: EU Business School Munich, Germany
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz
Architekturzentrum Wien (AzW), Vienna, Austria
Lecture: Por una autonomía del habitar. Legado y actualidad del trabajo de John F C Turner en América
Latina / Towards an autonomy of housing. Legacy and topicality of John F C Turner’s work in Latin America
Hosting institution: Urban Library Event, Habitat III International Conference, Quito, Ecuador
Lecture: Por una autonomía del habitar
Hosting institution: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Lima, Peru
Lecture: Landscapes of pressure
Hosting institution: Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Tarek Khan
Eastern University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, administrator of Career Services and International Office (CSIO)
Lecture: Career Success Program (CSP)
Hosting institution:Eastern University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Lecture: Training on E-Commerce
Hosting institution:Eastern University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Lecture: Seminar on Higher Education
Hosting institution:Eastern University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Lecture: Interactive session on Histories, Mythologies and Folklore of Bangladesh
Hosting institution:Eastern University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sabine Knierbein
TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Lecture: "THE EUROPEAN CITY: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK IN CRISIS”
Master module Summer term 2016
Hosting institution: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Seminar: "SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND NEW URBAN (IM)MOBILITIES" Masters project Winter term 2016
Hosting institution: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Project: "SOLIDARITY AND THE MAKING OF LIVED HERITAGE" Masters project Winter term 2016
Hosting institutions: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (Erasmus Teaching Exchange)
Seminar: THESIS – URBAN STUDIES REVISITED
Hosting institution: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Elina Kranzle
TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Project: “REFUGEES AND THE CITY”, Master project Winter term 2015
Hosting institution: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Lecture: "URBAN ETHNOGRAPHY AND EXPLORATIVE MAPPING AND VISUALISATION" Masters exercise Summer term 2016
Hosting institution: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Project: "SOLIDARITY AND THE MAKING OF LIVED HERITAGE" Masters project Winter term 2016 in exchange with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Hosting institution: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Nikolai Roskamm
Fakultät Architektur und Stadtplanung, Fachhochschule Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
Lecture: STADTBAUGESCHICHTE UND STÄDTEBAU, lecture, Bachelor, Studiengänge Architektur und Stadt- und Raumplanung, Hosting institution: Fachhochschule Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
Lecture: PROJEKT MA1, Wettbewerb Schinkel, Westkreuz Berlin, Master, Studiengänge Landschaftsarchitektur und Stadt- und Raumplanung
Hosting institution: Fachhochschule Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
Lecture: PLANUNG IM WANDEL, Seminar Master, Studiengang Stadt- und Raumplanung
Hosting institution: Fachhochschule Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
Lecture: PLANUNGSTHEORIE UND -METHODEN, lecture, Bachelor, Studiengang Stadt- und Raumplanung
Hosting institution: Fachhochschule Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
Lecture: STADTUMBAU, lecture/exercise (Stadtumbaugebiet Rabenhold, Arnstadt), Bachelor, Studiengang Stadt- und Raumplanung
Hosting institution: Fachhochschule Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
Lecture: FAHR! RAD ERFURT, project/studio MA2, Master, Studiengang Stadt- und Raumplanung
Hosting institution: Fachhochschule Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
Lecture: STUDIENPROJEKT VI, Bachelor, Studiengang Stadt- und Raumplanung
Hosting institution: Fachhochschule Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
Zeynep Turan Hoffman
Visiting Scholar, The New School, The Milano School for International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy
Lecture: Class spring 2016 Public Space in Global Cities: From Citizens to Consumers
Hosting institution: Milano School for International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy
Georgiana Varna
Newcastle University, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle, United Kingdom
Lecture: “GLOBAL CITIES COURSE”, Urban Studies masters students
Hosting institution: University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Lecture: “MEASURING PUBLIC SPACE: THE STAR MODEL”, lecture delivered for the MRes in Inter-disciplinary Urban Design
Hosting institution: The Bartlett, University College of London, United Kingdom
Lecture: “NEW METHODOLOGIES FOR URBAN PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH”, delivered to the PhD community
Hosting institution: Geography Department, École Normale Superior, Paris, France
Conference/Workshop
Naomi Adiv
Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University, Oregon, USA
URBAN WATERS: PRIVATE BODIES IN PUBLIC AQUATIC SPACES
Role: organizer of paper session
Hosting institution: Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, USA
INFRASTRUCTURES OF HYGIENE: MUNICIPAL BATHING WATERS IN NEW YORK CITY 1870-PRESENT
Role: presentation at conference
Hosting institution: Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, USA
RIVERS, FILTH AND HEAT: THE CONFLICT OVER THE CLOSURE OF THE NEW YORK CITY RIVER BATHS, 1901 – 1938
Role: invited presentations
Hosting institution: PARLOR, New York City, USA
ARCHIVAL RESEARCH AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES
Role: invited presentations
Hosting institution: Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University, Oregon, USA
GUEST LECTURER AND CRITIC, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO, PROF. JEFF SCHNABEL
Role: invited presentations, Hosting institution: Portland State University, Oregon, USA
Gabriella Esposito De Vita
Research Institute for Innovation and Services for Development, Italian Research Council, Naples, Italy
UN-HABITAT “THE CITY WE NEED” DOCUMENT, ADVANCED BRAINSTORMING CARREFOUR “THE SCIENCE OF THE CITY”
Role: coordination of the rounde table
Hosting institution: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
UN’OCCASIONE DI SVILUPPO INTEGRATO, L’IMPRESA SOCIALE PER LE POLITICHE URBANE DI RIGENERAZIONE
Role: paper presentation
Hosting institution: Conferenza Nazionale Società Italiana degli Urbanisti, University of Catania, Italy
BOTTOM-UP URBANISM? A MULTI-SCALAR INVESTIGATION OF URBAN TRANSFORMATION IN NAPLES, ITALY
Role: paper presentation
Hosting institution: Conference Eura, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy
INCLUSIVE CITIES FOR INTERCULTURAL COMMUNITIES. EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES
Role: paper presentation
Hosting institution: 2nd International Symposium NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
CITIES FROM THE SEA
Role: workshop referee
Hosting institution: Research Institute for Innovation and Services for Development, Naples, Italy
Vera-Karina Gebhardt
School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbona, Portogallo
TODAY'S AND TOMORROW'S DESIGN RESEARCHER
Role: workshop organisation
Hosting institution: Design Research Society Annual Conference, Brighton, UK
FICTIONAL REALITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURES
Role: workshop organisation
Hosting institution: World Planning School Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
DESIGN METHODS AND THEIR FUNCTION IN FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE
Role: paper presentation
Hosting institution: Royal Geographic Society Annual Conference, London, UK
Sabine Knierbein
TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
HACKING URBAN FURNITURE
Role: Invited Expert
Hosting institution: Berlin Centre for Arts and Urbanism, Germany
RADICAL DIALECTICS, URBAN INEQUALITY AND EVERYDAY RESISTANCE
Role: Invited Keynote Speech
Hosting institution: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
PUBLIC SPACE AND HOUSING AFFAIRS, AND ‘RESISTANCE COMBINED’
Role: Invited Keynote Speech
Hosting institution: Summer School, Universität Wien, Austria
LIVED SPACE DIALECTICS. COMBINED ACTIVISM AND RELATIONAL COUNTER SPACE
Role: Public Evening Lecture
Hosting institution: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
PLACEMAKING TO CREATE SOLUTIONS FOR URBAN INEQUALITY IN ATHENS
Role: Invited International Expert
Hosting institution: Bertelsmann Foundation Washington and City of Athens, Greece
Stefania Ragozino
Research Institute for Innovation and Services for Development, Italian Research Council, Naples, Italy
UN’OCCASIONE DI SVILUPPO INTEGRATO, L’IMPRESA SOCIALE PER LE POLITICHE URBANE DI RIGENERAZIONE
Role: paper presentation
Hosting institution: Conferenza Nazionale Società Italiana degli Urbanisti, University of Catania, Italy
BOTTOM-UP URBANISM? A MULTI-SCALAR INVESTIGATION OF URBAN TRANSFORMATION IN NAPLES, ITALY
Role: paper presentation
Hosting institution: Conference Eura, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy
TOOLS FOR REGENERATION OF THE URBAN LANDSCAPE. SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AS A LINK BETWEEN PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPE
Role: paper presentation and picking up of the Mollica Award
Hosting institution: 2nd International Symposium NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
IDENTITÀ MARITTIMA E RIGENERAZIONE URBANA. NISIDA: DA ISOLA NEGATA AD OASI DELLE POSSIBILITÀ
Role: poster presentation
Hosting institution: XXIX Congresso INU, Cagliari, Italy
CITIES FROM THE SEA
Role: workshop referee
Hosting institution: Research Institute for Innovation and Services for Development, Naples, Italy
Excursion and different types of outreach-networking events
Naomi Adiv
Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University, Oregon, USA
TOUR ON PUBLIC ART, WITH PEGGY KENDELLEN
Typology of event: excursion
Location: Regional Arts and Culture Council at ACSP, Portland, Oregon, USA
RIVERS, FILTH AND HEAT: THE CONFLICT OVER THE CLOSURE OF NEW YORK CITY RIVER BATHS, 1901 – 1938
Typology of event: talk
Location: PARLOR salon for young architects, New York, USA
Sabine Knierbein
TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
ERASMUS TEACHING AND STUDENT EXCHANGE AUSTRIA-GREECE
Typology of event: joint workshop
Location: TU Wien, Austria with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz
Architekturzentrum Wien (AzW), Vienna, Austria
LITTLE BIG PRESS – THE BOOK’S SPACE
Typology of event: exhibition
Location: FotoGrafia – Festival Internazionale di Roma, MACRO, Rome/Italy
Georgiana Varna
Newcastle University, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle, United Kingdom
FELLOWSHIP
Typology of event: fellowship
Location: Columbia University, New York, USA
Some of the recent publications and conference presentations by group members*
Adiv, N. (2016). “The effect of private programming on public life in Portland’s ‘living room’ – the case of Pioneer Courthouse Square,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, OR, November 3 – 6, 2016.
Chalana M., Hou J. (2016). “Epilogue: Sites of Questions, Contestation, and Resistance”. In Chalana M., Hou J, (eds.) Messy Urbanism: Understanding the ‘Other’ Cities of Asia, 238-243. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.
Chenyu L., Hou J., (2016). “A City for the Greater Good: Sharing and Empowerment in Urban Taiwan”. Green, vol. 42(8), 101-105.
Cohen-Cruz J., Hou J., and Ifeoma Nwankwo (eds., 2016). “Special Issue: ‘Globally Engagement’: Pedagogy, Research, and Creative Practices”. Public: A Journal of Imagining America, vol. 3(2).
De Backer M., Melgaço L., Varna G., Menichelli F. (2016). Order and Conflict in Public Space. Routledge, London.
Esposito De Vita G., Ragozino S. (2016). “Un’occasione di sviluppo integrato, l’impresa sociale per le politiche urbane di rigenerazione”. In Planum Cambiamenti Responsabilità e strumenti per l’urbanistica a servizio del paese. IXX Conferenza Nazionale Società Italiana degli Urbanisti.
Esposito De Vita G., Ragozino S. (2016). “Social reuse of Camorra confiscated properties: civic activation and collective goods”. In Becoming local: generative places, smart approaches, happy people CITTA 8th Annual Conference on Planning Research AESOP TG Public Spaces & Urban Cultures Event, Porto, Portogallo, 25 settembre 2015,401-416.
Esposito De Vita G., Oppido S. (2016). “Inclusive Cities for Intercultural Communities. European Experiences”. In Procedia Social and Behavioral Science, vol. 223, 134-140.
Esposito De Vita G., Trillo C., Martinez-Perez A. (2016). “Community planning and urban design in contested places. Some insights from Belfast”. In Journal of Urban Design, vol. 21(3), 320-334.
Esposito De Vita G., Trillo C., Oppido S. (2016). “Urban regeneration and civic economics: a community-led approach in Boston and Naples”. In Journal of Comparative Cultural Studies in Architecture, vol. 9, 28-40.
Frank S., Knierbein S., Kränzle E. (2016). Urban Culture, Public Space and the Present: Urban Solidarity and European Crisis. Exploring urban present(s). Reader available for free via
Golda-Pongratz K. (2016). “Landscapes of Pressure”. UrbanNext. https://urbannext.net/landscapes-ofpressure/>.
Golda-Pongratz K., Teschner K (eds., 2016). “Spaces of Memory – Lugares de memoria. Trialog n° 118-119”. Journal on Planning and Building in a Global Context.
Golda-Pongratz K. (2016). “Urban Memory – Palimpsests, Traces and Demarcations in Metropolitan Lima”. In Golda-Pongratz K., Teschner K (eds.) Spaces of Memory – Lugares de Memoria. Trialog N° 118-119, Journal on Planning and Building in a Global Context, p. 4-17.
Golda-Pongratz K. (2016). “Las huellas de Eurovegas”. GeocritiQ, 25 de octubre de 2016, n. 260. ISSN: 2385–5096. http://www.geocritiq.com/2016/10/las-huellas-de-eurovegas
Golda-Pongratz K., Teschner K. (eds., 2016). “Habitat III. Trialog n° 124-125”. Journal on Planning and Building in a Global Context.
Golda-Pongratz K. (2016). “Palimpsests, inscriptions, inlays: sketching urban identities”. In Golda-Pongratz K. (ed.)City on (Re)construction. Metropolis No.100. Ajuntament de Barcelona. http://lameva.barcelona.cat/bcnmetropolis/es/dossier/palimpsests-inscripcions-incrustacions-tracant-identitatsurbanes/
Hou J. (2016). “Deadly and Lively Encounters”. In Darling J., Wilson H.F. (eds.), Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York, 221-227. Routledge, London and New York.
Hou J., Manish C. (2016). “Untangling the “Messy” Asian City”. In Chalana M., Hou J., (eds.) Messy Urbanism: Understanding the ‘Other’ Cities of Asia, 1-21. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.
Hou J. (2016). “Everyday Urban Flux: Temporary Urbanism in East Asia as Insurgent Planning”. In Chalana M., Hou J., (eds.) Messy Urbanism: Understanding the ‘Other’ Cities of Asia, 193-214. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.
Hou J., (2016). “Recurring Crises, Regenerating Hope: 2016 Landscape Declarations”. Landscape. December (In Chinese).
Hou J., Chenyu L., (2016). “Urban Commoning, City Remaking: Thoughts and Observations from Global to Local”. Green, vol. 41(6), 91-95.
Knierbein S., Kränzle E. (Eds., 2016). Bridges Master Class 2015. Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Department of Spatial Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning, TU Wien.
Knierbein S., Kränzle E. (Eds., 2016). Urban Culture, Public Space and the Past: Urban Peace and National Welfare. Welfare Farewell? Exploring Urban Past(s). Booklet I, Annual Reader of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Urban Culture and Public Space, Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning, TU Wien.
Knierbein S., Kränzle E. (Eds., 2016) Urban Culture, Public Space and the Past: Urban Peace and National Welfare. Refugees and the City. Booklet II, Annual Reader of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Urban Culture and Public Space, Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning, TU Wien.
Knierbein S. (2016). “Was machen die sozialen Beziehungen im öffentlichen Raum?”. In Dittrich M. und Rieger Jandl A. (eds.) Architektur transdisziplinär. Band 2. IVA Verlag. Wien. S. 95-104.
Knierbein S. (2016) “Öffentliche Räume zwischen Krise und Innovation. Einsichten und Thesen aus der europäischen Stadtforschung”. In Quandt Stiftung (Hg.) Sinclair Haus Gespräche 35. Die Bürger und ihr Öffentlicher Raum. Herder Verlag, München. S. 32.57.
Knierbein S. (2016). “Öffentliche Räume als Handlungssphären des städtischen Strukturwandels in Europa”. In Arbeiterkammer Wien (Ed) Wien wächst - Öffentlicher Raum. Konferenzdokumentation, Wien. S. 40-60.
Knierbein S, Kränzle E, Roskamm N. (2016). Urban Culture, Public Space and the Past: Urban Peace and National Welfare. Welfare farewell? Exploring urban past(s). ISBN 978-3-902707-19-2 Reader available for free via
Knierbein S., Kränzle E., Roskamm N. (2016). Urban Culture, Public Space and the Past: Refugees and the City. 2nd Edition. ISBN 978-3-902707-23-9 Reader available for free via
Kränzle E. (2016). "Refugees and the City - Displacing the State of Exception". In: Knierbein, S., Kränzle, E. (eds.) Urban Culture, Public Space and the Past: Urban Peace and National Welfare. Refugees and the City. Booklet II, Annual Reader of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Urban Culture and Public Space, Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning, TU Wien.
Kränzle E. (forthcoming). "Re-approprating the City of Crisis - Activism and Participation in the Governance of Public Space in Berlin and Madrid". PlaNext, 3.
Kränzle E. (forthcoming). "Public Space in a Parallel Universe - Conflict, Coexistence and Co-optation between Alternative Urbanisms and the Neoliberalising City". In Hou, J., Knierbein, S. (eds.), City Unsilenced, Routledge.
Manish C., Hou J. (eds., 2016). Messy Urbanism: Understanding the ‘Other’ Cities of Asia. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. (Equal editorship)
Ragozino S. (2016). “Plymouth Social Enterprise City: l’impresa sociale per la rigenerazione urbana”. In Innovation Stories.0 Working papers. Rivista online di Urban@it, vol. 1, 1-15, ISSN 2465-2059.
Ragozino S. (2016). “Tools for Regeneration of the Urban Landscape. Social Enterprise as a Link between People and Landscape”. In Procedia Social and Behavioral Science, vol. 223, 201-208. doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.05.349
Roskamm N. (2016). “Zur Genealogie eines Bebauungsplans. Bericht aus der urbanistischen Alltäglichkeit”. In: J. Lange und J. Müller (ed.) Wie plant die Planung? Kultur- und planungswissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf die Praxis der räumlichen Planung. Berliner Blätter. Ethnographische und ethnologische Beiträge, Berlin, 185-193
Roskamm N. (2016). “Richtungswechsel. Der `öffentliche Raum´ bei Hannah Arendt und die These von der `bildenden Stadt´”. In A. Million, F. Bentlin, J. Heinrich (eds.) Wenn Stadt Bildung mitdenkt, dann… Tempus Corporate, Berlin, 78-81.
Roskamm N. (2016). “Bauliche Dichte. Eine Begriffsbestimmung”. In Stadtbauwelt "Dichte Packung", vol. 209(12), 24-27.
Roskamm N. (2016). “Riots. Special issue” (coordination, with Lisa Vollmer), sub\urban, vol. 1(4).
Roskamm N. (2016). “Mixing”. In Interdisciplinary Center for Urban Culture and Public Space SKuOR (ed.): Refugees and the City, Annual Reader 2015 – Booklet II, S. 14-18.
Roskamm N. (2016). “Welfare, Polizey, and Public Health or: What is Genealogy?”. In Interdisciplinary Center for Urban Culture and Public Space SKuOR (ed.) Welfare Farewell: Exploring Urban Past(s), Annual Reader 2015 – Booklet I, 8-13.
Roskamm N. (2016). “Houses for the Masses, Masses for the Housing”. In Interdisciplinary Center for Urban Culture and Public Space SKuOR (ed.) Welfare Farewell: Exploring Urban Past(s), Annual Reader 2015 – Booklet I, 25-31.
Roskamm N. (2016). “Hannah Arendt’s Notion of “Public Space” and the Theory of the “Educating City””. In Interdisciplinary Center for Urban Culture and Public Space SKuOR (ed.) Welfare Farewell: Exploring Urban Past(s), Annual Reader 2015 – Booklet I, 38-40.
*These lists have been established based on a call for response among the listed AESOP TG-PSUC members in winter 2016/7.
Statement of solidarity with the academics in Turkey and Turkish scholars abroad
In the current unsettling climate of Turkey, the Turkish government prohibits the basic pillars of the scientific and academic works by limiting the freedom of speech, mobility and international exchange of the academics in Turkey, and of Turkish academics abroad. We, as the AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures, are concerned about these silences and the selective condemnations. We stand in solidarity with our colleagues affected by this and fully claim for their rights to practice their profession in a full extent, in a global community of academic scholars.
To all our colleagues in the AESOP academic community: Please be in touch and offer support for our colleagues in Turkey. For those, who plan to organise symposia, conferences, summer schools: please do invite our Turkish colleagues to make visible what is now closed off, to give a voice to those who are now silenced out.
- Call for abstracts PUBLIC SPACES FOR LOCAL LIFE Shared values in diversified urban communities as a foundation for participatory provision of local public spaces
- Abstract and full paper submission of AESOP Annual Congress '17 Lisbon
- Defragmenting and Activating Public Spaces in Unstable Urban Settings. Beirut, 9-11 November 2016
- Statement of solidarity with the academics in Turkey and Turkish scholars abroad
