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The Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space of Vienna University of Technology has opened a Call for Expression of Interest for three one-year positions of the City of Vienna Visiting Professorship for Urban Culture and Public Space, successively appointed to three annual themes of the third funding phase (2015-2017) commencing in March 2015.
For more information about the call please visit website: http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at/en
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Call for Participation:
Becoming Local Vienna
Networking Meeting of the Thematic Group on Public Spaces and Urban Cultures of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)
Organized by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Department of Spatial Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Vienna University of Technology
Ass. Prof. Dr. Sabine Knierbein and DI Tihomir Viderman MSc
29 August 2014, Mobiles Stadtlabor, Resselpark, 1040 Vienna (U4 Karlsplatz)
The AESOP Thematic Group on Public Spaces and Urban Cultures hosts a one-day networking meeting “Becoming Local Vienna”, which is organized by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at) at Vienna University of Technology. The meeting will explore local links between the umbrella theme “Becoming local” and issues of emancipation in planning and design, which lie in the focus of successive WWTF summer school (30th Aug to 5th Sep). The focus will be put primarily on practical experiences and empirical approaches. Moreover, the meeting seeks to produce concrete outputs and conclusions concerning possibilities and limitations of various approaches and methods to empowering and constituting city publics in an inclusive way.
The meeting has been conceived as a series of workshops, which will be offered by the AESOP research partners from Istanbul, Paris, Naples and Zagreb along five learning fields:
A – Beyond participatory discourse and process (workshop 1)
B – Between emancipatory practices and everyday life (workshop 2)
C – The material, the mental and the lived space (workshop 3)
D – Cultural practices creating alternative values (workshop 4)
E – Between Everyday Life and Scientific Insights (transversal)
Workshops will discuss processes and practices that connect global forces and locally present issues, while putting a specific emphasis on situated learning experiences and citizen-empowerment perspectives as a means of inducing spatial changes in design and planning that are meaningful for the local dwellers and their everyday lives. Guest hosts have been invited to propose inclusive workshop formats for up to 30 participants, thus opening an opportunity for exchange of knowledge and experiences among researchers and practitioners, civil servants, NGOs and activists whose actions and interest are directed at creating inclusive public spaces. Each of the workshops will be open by a talk by a guest partner researcher on own experiences from practice-based work, which will be brought into dialogue with inputs from actors working in the Vienna’s local context. Colleagues and students interested to actively participate in the sessions (10min short practice-oriented contribution, see table below) please contact Tihomir Viderman (tihomir.viderman @tuwien.ac.at) by the 15th July 2014. A significant portion of the workshop will be dedicated to a debate and output-oriented work engaging all the participants, during which they will be able to get to know each other, exchange ideas and discuss experiences in a convivial atmosphere. For those generally interested to participate, please register at
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Call for Participation:
Becoming Local Vienna
Networking Meeting of the Thematic Group on Public Spaces and Urban Cultures of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)
Organized by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Department of Spatial Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Vienna University of Technology
Ass. Prof. Dr. Sabine Knierbein and DI Tihomir Viderman MSc
29 August 2014, Mobiles Stadtlabor, Resselpark, 1040 Vienna (U4 Karlsplatz)
The AESOP Thematic Group on Public Spaces and Urban Cultures hosts a one-day networking meeting “Becoming Local Vienna”, which is organized by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at) at Vienna University of Technology. The meeting will explore local links between the umbrella theme “Becoming local” and issues of emancipation in planning and design, which lie in the focus of successive WWTF summer school (30th Aug to 5th Sep). The focus will be put primarily on practical experiences and empirical approaches. Moreover, the meeting seeks to produce concrete outputs and conclusions concerning possibilities and limitations of various approaches and methods to empowering and constituting city publics in an inclusive way.
The meeting has been conceived as a series of workshops, which will be offered by the AESOP research partners from Istanbul, Paris, Naples and Zagreb along five learning fields:
A – Beyond participatory discourse and process (workshop 1)
B – Between emancipatory practices and everyday life (workshop 2)
C – The material, the mental and the lived space (workshop 3)
D – Cultural practices creating alternative values (workshop 4)
E – Between Everyday Life and Scientific Insights (transversal)
Workshops will discuss processes and practices that connect global forces and locally present issues, while putting a specific emphasis on situated learning experiences and citizen-empowerment perspectives as a means of inducing spatial changes in design and planning that are meaningful for the local dwellers and their everyday lives. Guest hosts have been invited to propose inclusive workshop formats for up to 30 participants, thus opening an opportunity for exchange of knowledge and experiences among researchers and practitioners, civil servants, NGOs and activists whose actions and interest are directed at creating inclusive public spaces. Each of the workshops will be open by a talk by a guest partner researcher on own experiences from practice-based work, which will be brought into dialogue with inputs from actors working in the Vienna’s local context. Colleagues and students interested to actively participate in the sessions (10min short practice-oriented contribution, see table below) please contact Tihomir Viderman (tihomir.viderman @tuwien.ac.at) by the 15th July 2014. A significant portion of the workshop will be dedicated to a debate and output-oriented work engaging all the participants, during which they will be able to get to know each other, exchange ideas and discuss experiences in a convivial atmosphere. For those generally interested to participate, please register at
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OVERVIEW OF THE PRESENTED PAPERS
13th Planning and Complexity Thematic Group Meeting Tampere 15th-16th January 2015 COMPLEXITY and DIGITALISATION OF CITIES – CHALLENGES FOR URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN
Thursday 15th of January
Keynote Lecture
- Prof. Itzhak Benenson, We cannot forecast the future, but who cares? Determinism of parts versus indeterminism of a whole in the era of big data
Discussion
Session 1. Urban evolution: rules, patterns and codes in complex cities
- Mee, Alan: Complex adaptive spatial systems for urban design
- Coquillat, Pablo: Evolutionary Theory of Urban Change
- Kuecker, Glen: New Songdo City: A Case Study in Complexity Thinking and Ubiquitous Urban Design
Discussion
Friday 16th of January
Session 2. Complexity and planning 1: comprehensive reviews
- De Roo, Gert: 'Post-policy, collectives and the virtual'
- Partanen Jenni: Complexity: Epistemological review
- Rantanen, Annuska: Exploring a pattern based design tool to increase the resilience of retail in digitalised cities: conceptual guidelines
Discussion
Session 3. Virtual cities meet corporeal urban space: interconnected digital/physical webs Deni, Suleiman: Virtual communities and patterns of social internations in the ‘Tech City’
- Unalan, Dilek: Digitalization of Cities from Semiotic Coevolutionary Perspective
- Saleh, Mohamed: Unfolding the Story: Informal Communities Thriving by Self-Organization throughout the Egyptian Revolution
Discussion
Session 4. Virtual platforms in planning - digitalization and new methods of participation
Devish, Oswald; Jeremiah Diephuis, Katharina Gugerell, Martin Berger and Martina Jauschneg: Game Mechanics for Civic Participation in Digitized Cities
Senugpta, Ulysses: Participation, Governance & Resilience in the Age of Big Data Silva, Paulo: Participatory processes and digital platforms – towards a more effective way to deal with cities’
Session 5. Complexity and planning 2: computerized urban design tools and applications
- Iltanen, Sanna: Planning spontaneous patterns
- BaƔlik, Seher: A simulation model based upon land ownership pattern: the case of Istanbul
- Österlund, Toni: Non-linear Adaptive Lighting Control - Methods for designing and controlling non-linear adaptive lighting using network-based agents
Discussion
Reflection on the workshop: conclusions, discussion and future plans
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"BECOMING LOCAL: Transforming spaces, redefining localities"
International workshop
October 23 - 24 - 25, 2014
La Villette School of Architecture, Paris, France
The Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie of La Villette School of Architecture organizes a three-day workshop for the AESOP thematic group of “Public Spaces and Urban Cultures”. The Parisian meeting will be the fourth to take place under the ‘Becoming Local’ theme following Istanbul (November 2013), Bucharest (June 2014) and Vienna (August 2014). The aim of the ‘Becoming Local’ series is to discuss and share international, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary perspectives in the study of public spaces and urban cultures.
The Paris workshop will be dedicated to question the conflict between the local and global scale in contemporary public spaces by proposing a reflection on notions and categories used to describe local identities in the context of urban transformation. Through a "talk, walk and work" gathering, researchers, scholars and practitioners, will improve a comparative approach on the meaning of "local" in different case studies around the world and will live the experience of "becoming local" in Paris.
The Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie has, since its birth in 1981, been rooted in the school of architecture of La Villette and works in the field of anthropology of the city. Its aim is to create a new understanding of urban transformation processes through an anthropological approach. Our interdisciplinary research considers these processes as moments in which space and time are continually imagined, narrated and negotiated by the people who live it and by those who design and manage it. Different tools drive this approach: 1) the articulation of spatial and temporal scales, narratives and imaginations; 2) the questioning of acquired notions and categories; 3) the methodological experimentation on representation tools (see: www.laa.archi.fr/Cartes-habitantes and www.laa.archi.fr/Chronotopies). The LAA is one of the founding groups of the Laboratoire Architecture Ville Urbanisme Environnement (LAVUE), the biggest French research unit on urban studies.
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‘BECOMING LOCAL’
Transforming spaces, redefining localities
If we assume urban public space to be an arena of social conflict and collective strategies, what happens when places are under transformation? Urban transformation processes reveal the different types of conflicts occurring in uses, representations, and legitimacy. These dynamics can be observed at all planning scales, from macro to micro, such as global metropolitan centralities planning, ex-industrial areas renovation, social housing renewal, public space reshaping, and urban furniture design.
In the ongoing debate about the city, from the critics of Modernism to the discussions about Globalization, architects, urban planners, and researchers have been called upon to develop new tools for considering and evaluating “local contexts”. The local scale has become a central issue in contemporary projects aiming to reconnect the multiple uses of public space with the human dimension and restore a social sense of community. At the same time the processes of metropolization and gentrification, which take place in large European cities like Paris, are dictating the need of conceiving the city as a polycentric ensemble of urban centers that should enhance its economic “international attraction”.
Through this workshop we propose to face this conflict between the local and global scale in contemporary public spaces by analyzing both the words we use to talk about this conflict as well as the misunderstandings that the use of these same words can provoke in different contexts.
Questioning what the locality is and who the locals are, is a way of challenging the contemporary notion of “commons” in global cities. To answer these questions, urban planners and researchers need to reassess the use of apparently neutral categories such as inhabitants, dwellers, users, citizens, as well as those categories with more specific connotation, such as gentrifiers or stakeholders. In order to question urban design and its relation to local identities, a better understanding of who the “locals” are in cosmopolitan and global cities, is needed. Which local identities are we talking about? How do we name the inhabitants of a street/neighborhood/city? What is the scale of locality? To what extent the notions and terms, applied to describe ‘target groups’ of urban projects, are problematic? The focus on “dwellers”, for example, could result in excluding other users of the public space of a neighborhood that utilize and transform the space daily. Moreover institutions and policies contribute to the redefinition of the scale of public spaces not only by implying a legitimate user but also by framing “sensitive areas”. These actions produce a continuous recomposition of urban identities and bring into question what it means to belong to the local or global scale for inhabitants. What is the role of public spaces in this redefinition and reconfiguration of identities? For whom are public spaces designed in these contexts? Which names are used to describe the future users of a space?
In the same way, participatory policies, lately introduced as a pivotal part of urban transformation processes, are relevant subjects for critical inquiry. These policies propose to focus on the needs of “inhabitants” or “citizens”. But to what extent is the use of “inhabitants”/”citizens” a relevant category for urban design in the context of globalising cities? With whom do experts and politicians "negotiate" their visions of the future in the urban environment? When inclusive public space is planned and designed, who are the interlocutors? Who is at the same time excluded?
This workshop intends to be a moment of shared reflection, an open dialogue between planners, designers, researchers, and the civil society. The aim is to reflect different points of view at the intersection of different disciplines and between theory and practice. Participants are invited to share analytical outcomes and practical answers from different fields and (self-reflected) experiences about the words and notions that are used for (re)defining locality.
The event will be developed in three parts:
Talk / International Conference: A public conference exhibiting participants’ reflections on, and practices in, projects and urban “rescaling” processes, with the aim of comparing and sharing different experiences and definitions. The interventions will seek to answer, from different points of view, the question: Who are the recipients of urban projects? And how does a “legitimate user” redefine the urban scale of a place/space? Contributions will also provide a reflection on the idea of “locality” and “users”.
Walk / In the Field: The ongoing process of Paris metropolization is rich in examples that can be used as fertile case studies for our group discussion. We will propose to focus on some emblematic Parisian areas on which our team is working at the moment (such as Barbès and la Chapelle in the 18th arrondissement and the town center of the Montreuil municipality). The objective of the fieldtrip will be to stimulate as many encounters and exchanges as possible with the involved actors (institutions, NGOs, architects, ...).
Work / Brain Storming: The final moment of collective discussion and work is producing a “word cloud” and a list of revisited definitions of the emerging notions. The words that will emerge during the debates and the field trips will be translated and associated in order to develop and enhance a comparative common approach. We expect this exchange to create new interpretative and practical tools for use in further research and project experiences. Participants and organizers will be challenged to experiment with methodological tools in approaching debate, translation, and description.
The event will produce two types of outcomes in different temporalities: a “word cloud” poster along with a blog documenting the workshop in fieri, and a final publication after the meeting.
Abstract Submission
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short biography of 100 words to the organizational board:
Meeting Schedule
Thursday – October 23th 2014 – International conferences Friday - October 24th 2014 – Fieldtrips and keynote speeches Saturday – October 25th 2014 - Workshop and summing up
Fees
Participation in the meeting is free of charge.
Organizational Board
AESOP TG Representatives
Sabine KNIERBEIN (coord.), Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Vienna University of TechnologyTihomir VIDERMAN (coord.), Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Vienna University of Technology
Local Organizers
Sara CARLINI, Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie UMR CNRS 7218 LAVUE
Silvana GAHLI, Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie UMR CNRS 7218 LAVUE – Université Paris X
Federica GATTA (coord.), Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie UMR CNRS 7218 LAVUE – Université Paris X
Maria Anita PALUMBO (coord.), Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie UMR CNRS 7218 LAVUE – EHESS (Paris)
Flavia PERTUSO, Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie UMR CNRS 7218 LAVUE – Université Paris X Véronique ZAMANT (coord.), Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie UMR CNRS 7218 LAVUE – Université Paris X
Advisory Board
A l e s s i a d e B I A S E , Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie UMR CNRS 7218 LAVUE, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris La Villette
O l i v i e r B O U C H E R O N , Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie UMR CNRS 7218 LAVUE, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris La Villette
Massimo BRICOCOLI, Department of Architecture and Planning, Politecnico di Milano
Marìa A. CASTRILLO ROMON, Instituto Universitario de Urbanística, Departamento de Urbanismo y representación de la arquitectura, Universidad de Valladolid
Carlo CELLAMARE, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile ed Ambientale, Università della Sapienza (Rome)
Aglaée DEGROS, Artgineering (Rotterdam) - Foundation A12NU (Utrecht) - Member of Council of Spatial Planners from Belgium
Ferdinando FAVA, Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie UMR CNRS 7218 LAVUE – Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell'Antichità, Università di Padova
Yankel FIJALKOW, Centre de Recherche sur l’Habitat UMR CNRS 7218 LAVUE, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Val de Seine
Sabine KNIERBEIN, Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Vienna University of Technology
Claire LEVY-VROELANT, Centre de Recherche sur l’Habitat UMR CNRS 7218 LAVUE, Département de sociologie, Université Paris VIII
N a d j a M O N N E T , Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie UMR CNRS 7218 LAVUE – École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille
Sylvie TISSOT, Laboratoire Cultures et Sociétés Urbaines UMR CNRS 7217 CRESPPA, Département de Sciences Politiques, Université Paris VIII
Stéphane TONNELAT, Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences NYU CNRS (New York) - Centre de Recherche sur l’Habitat UMR CNRS 7218 LAVUE
Tihomir VIDERMAN, Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Vienna University of Technology
Related Links
The meeting blog (operational from September 2014 on): www.becominglocalparis.wordpress.com
Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie: http://www.laa.archi.fr/
Laboratoire Architecture Ville Urbanisme Environnement: http://www.lavue.cnrs.fr
École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris La Villette: http://www.paris-lavillette.archi.fr/cms/ Aesop: http://www.aesop-planning.eu/
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- The Aesop TG Public Spaces and Urban Cultures participates in International Summer School 2014 organised by Vienna University of Technology
- Call for Abstracts: Becoming Local Series, Bucharest Meeting (June 11-14, 2014)
