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THEMATIC GROUPS

11th meeting: Self-organization and spatial planning: in-depth analysis

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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS
Category: Planning and Complexity
Published: 10 January 2013

VIDEO RECORDINGS

Thursday, the 2nd of May:

VIDEO PART I

  • Welcome by Paulo Silva (Chair organizing committee)
  • Opening speech by Ward Rauws (Co-chair AESOPs thematic group on Complexity & Planning)
  • Ulysses Sengupta, Eric Cheung- Incorporating Informal Patterns: New Computational Approaches aimed at Integration of Socio-Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Self Organisation in Mumbai, within Future Co-ordinated Planning Strategies
  • Jenni Partanen- Empirical Indicators for Self-Organisation
  • Jorge Batista e Silva, José Antunes Ferreira - Intelligent cities and intelligent plans: how to foster self-organisation?

VIDEO PART II

  • Beitske Boonstra - Co-housing as self-organisation in spatial development: mapping the trajectories of becoming of four Danish co-housing initiatives
  • Ward Rauws, Gert de Roo - Cohousing, self-organization in Dutch urban planning practice?
  • José Carlos Mota - The added value of city civic movements in local spatial planning policies: Discussing the case of Aveiro, Portugal
  • Oswald Devisch, Oscar Rommens, Joris Van Reusel - Towards a culture of urban improvisation – reconstructions of the interplay of private and public initiatives in spatial transformation processes

Friday, the 3rd of May:

 

VIDEO PART I

  • Sara Levy, Karel Martens, Rob van der Heijden - Networks, Markets and Hierarchies: how different governance modes organize urban development
  • Matthias Loepfe, Christina Zweifel, Lineo Devechi - On emergence and power of strategies: exploring the relations between strategic planning and urban development in Switzerland
  • Helena Farrall, Lia Vasconcelos - Planning for Urban Panarchy or Panarchy in Urban Planning?

KEYNOTE speaker prof. Francis Heylighen (NO VIDEO)

VIDEO PART II

  • Sharon Ackerman - Applying principles from Complex Adaptive Systems theory towards urban planning strategies: A test case that replaces the design of urban objects with the choreography of urban processes.
  • Paulo Silva - Spatial planning systems: emergence and co-evolution involving illegal settlers, institutional, planning and spatial design
  • Sara Levy, Karel Martens, Rob van der Heijden - Just a little patience: an agent-based model of the effect of a planning institution on residential patterns
  • Closing and group evaluation by Ward Rauws

Call for papers

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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS
Category: Planning/Conflict
Published: 06 January 2013

 RC 21 Conference Berlin, 29-31 August 2013

Session 27: Contentious movements, conflict and agonistic pluralism in urban development transformative trajectories and potentials

Session organizer: Enrico Gualini, TU Berlin – Berlin University of Technology

Call for Paper: Ambivalent Landscapes

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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS
Category: Public Spaces and Urban Cultures
Published: 13 September 2012

AMBIVALENT LANDSCAPES, Sorting out the present by designing the future

Public Spaces & Urban Cultures Conference

Lisbon, 6th -7th December 2012

Ambivalence stands for the simultaneously contradictory and opposing perception of a given phenomenon, which despite disorienting in its manifestations, may be regarded as a condition from which to build renewed frameworks of analysis and criticism.

Recent trends in spatial, social and cultural processes show a growing sense of this ambivalence – in the coexisting patterns of spatial polarization and shrinkage, in the informal public spaces patched under recombining networks of individual and collective exchange, in the increasingly difficult access to social and physical infrastructures that (used to) support modern cities. These are the landscapes of a changing urban Europe. No longer confined to the City but ever more dependent on stronger spaces of citizenship.

Ambivalent landscapes are the common ground and the opportunity to address public space and urban culture in the face of an open and transdisciplinary perspective.

This is an invitation to scholars to participate with original papers on a multiple disciplinary basis – architecture and urbanism, social sciences and landscape, design and technology. Three trackswere designed to bringing together different approaches into a shared topic: Empty Cities, Collective spaces, Living infrastructures.

Venue: Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Call for papers: 1stSeptember/5th October 2012; Acceptance notice: 1st November Accepted papers will be published in a cd-rom edited by FA-UTL (ISBN)

Keynote Speakers:

Ali Madanipour (Newcastle University);
José Pinto Duarte (Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon); Frank Eckardt (Bauhaus Universität Weimar)
Dias Coelho(Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon);

More information and contact:

AMBIVALENT LANDSCAPES

http://gaudi.fa.utl.pt/~metropolis/PublicSpace/

10th meeting: 16-17 Nov. 2012: Complexity and the Collaborative Rationale to Planning

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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS
Category: Planning and Complexity
Published: 20 March 2012

16th and 17th of November the 10th meeting of the Thematic Group on Complexity and Planning was held in Groningen, The Netherlands. The theme of the event was ‘Complexity and the collaborative reationale to planning’. A keynote presentation was given by prof Judith Innes, Berkeley University, US. The event was hosted by the Department of Spatial Planning & Environment, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen.

 

VIDEO RECORDINGS:

Key Note prof. Judith Innes: Regional Sustainability Through Networks: A Complex Systems Perspective

Friday, 16th November 2012

Opening of the conference - Ward Rauws

Spatial Planning and the Collaborative Rationale - prof Gert de Roo

Toward an evolutionary approach to understanding the role of design in development planning - Matthew Cook, Ward Rauws, Jeffrey Johnson

Complexity and knowledge building - Helena Farrall, Lia Vasconcelos

Concrete Machines: Collective Decision-Making Processes in Complex Planning Situations as Practices of "Closure" - Matthias Loepfe  [No video available]

Scarcity, actions and goals (SAG): A conceptual tool to address complexity and foster collaboration - Lauri Lithmaa

Managing complexity: The collaborative rationale and strategic discourses discussed by the example of the German energy turnaround - Marian Günzel & Christian Lamker

Conceptual Framework for New Thinking in Planning (perceiving planning, defining planning?) - Iza Mironowicz

Stimulating quality of place: governing tensions between robustness and flexibility - Stefan Hartman

Lock-in situations in planning: the role of law and property rights - Thomas Hartmann, Barrie Needham

Vitality in complex regional water systems - Jurian Edelenbos, Ingmar van Meerkerk, Corniel van Leeuwen

Translational self-organization: a way out of the participatory planning paradox? - Beitske Boonstra

Public private partnership, a collaborative approach seen in the light of complexity thinking - Frits Verhees

Understanding the role of institutions in self-organizing cities - Zhang Shuhai, Ward Rauws

 

Saturday, 17th November 2012

Planning with complexity - An introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy - David Booher, Judith E. Innes (The discussion after the presentation)

Planning paradigms, between pre-conditions and forecasts - plans, actors and time - Paolo Silva

Reflecting on Complexity in Planing; a Post-Contingency approach - Christian Zuidema

Coalition Planning: Collaboration of the interface of institutions and the emergence of institutional frames in the transition towards self-organising processes - Martine de Jong

Complex planning practice in blooming mining communities in Northern Sweden - Kristina L. Nilsson

Loose Fit: a spatio-temporal approach to incorporating bottom up behaviours - Ulysses Sengupta, Eric Cheung, Ben Minton, Jonathan Pick, James Rixon

Strategic governance and planning as a fractal - Lucia Dobrucka [no video available]

Explaining space-filling efficiency in populated cities using urban explainatory variables - G. Erdogan, K.M. Cubukcu

Call for Paper: AESOP Annual Conference, Ankara 11-15 July 2012, Special Session for the thematic group 'Public Spaces and Urban Cultures'

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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS
Category: Public Spaces and Urban Cultures
Published: 31 July 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE ASSOCIATION of EUROPEAN SCHOOLS of PLANNING (AESOP)

Annual Conference 11-15 July 2012 /

Special Session AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures

(Under Conference Track / 9: Heritage, Urban Cultures, Urban Design) Working Theme: “Conviviality”
Abstract submission deadline: 15 January 2012

About working Theme Conviviality: A definition

Conviviality is a term which originates from the latin “convivium”, where it used to mean “live with”, and as such meaning sharing a living space, in which meal used to have an important role for the cohesion of the community. The term means also “banquet”, usually hosted as a celebration of a community event. In more recent times, the term has also been to refer to meal sharing, dinner parties, or other jovial and merry moments among friends or community of interest.

Convivial moments have been termed either local festivals/markets with social purposes (i.e. fundraising for local charitable programmes, such as the Milanese Convivio), or simple grass-roots initiatives organised in the streets (for example: The Big Lunch, Breakfast in the street).

A challenge

The topic of conviviality has recently seen a growing interest among urban scholars. Not only conviviality as a spontaneous social activity is in danger, in the recent popularity of privatised spaces, but it tend to be substituted by forms of regulation of urban spaces which lead to exclusion of social groups (for example the banning of drinking in parks outside very expensive café’ premises, in Italy), the enforcement of health and Safety regulation, interpreted in very instrumental way, to reduce spontaneous community gathering larger than a family (for example in UK), or the wide privatisation of streets and squares and their embedding into shopping centres, which introduce new forms of ownership, and reduce the tolerated non-consumption activities.

Nonetheless, we can also observe a raising number of spontaneous forms of re-appropriation of public spaces around convivial activities, such as food growing, food sharing, and food selling. Guerrilla gardeners, spontaneous ethnic gathering for food cooking and selling, or communities gathering around food markets are becoming more frequent, and a wide range of convivial practices are becoming part of the everyday life on the street.

Research questions

We are interested in:

  • Knowing what convivial practices are emerging in your city. Who organise them? Where? Which resources mobilise? How are the local authorities or competing groups reacting to this? We are in particular interested in agency-structure dynamics.

  • What is “conviviality” in these projects? What social meanings are embedded in these practices? What forms of sharing? Are these site –specific, therefore built around a specific public space, or type of space, or are them relatively mobile?

  • How can a reflection on research and practice (in planning, architecture, cultural studies, and critical geography) add new insight into the trajectories of these convivial projects?

    About abstract submission

    The abstract submission for this thematic group special session will be via AESOP Conference website (https://www.arber.com.tr/aesop2012.org/index.php/page,57,call_for_papers) following the official procedure of the conference organization. The abstracts should be submitted for Track 9: Heritage, Urban Cultures, and Urban Design with a short notice on the text “Thematic Group Public Space and Urban Cultures / Special Session” which indicates your interest to present your work in this session. These abstracts will be judged as all other abstracts of the track by track co-chairs.

    Important note: Participants who are not member of the Thematic Group are very welcome to submit an abstract to present their work in this session.

  1. Announcement: AESOP Thematic Group “Public Spaces and Urban Cultures”, Meeting with the coordinators of Human Cities Festival
  2. Announcement: AESOP Thematic Group “Public Spaces and Urban Cultures”, Annual Meeting 11/2011
  3. 9th Meeting "Self organizing and Spatial Planning"
  4. Invitation: The Thematic Group Launching Event, AESOP Helsinki Conference, Finland

Subcategories

Planning and Complexity Article Count:  29

New Technologies & Planning Article Count:  8

Planning, Law and Property rights Article Count:  9

Transboundary Planning and Governance Article Count:  12

Transportation planning and policy Article Count:  8

Ethics, Values and Planning Article Count:  21

Resilience and Risks Mitigation Strategies Article Count:  12

French and British planning studies Article Count:  1

Sustainable Food Planning Article Count:  9

Public Spaces and Urban Cultures Article Count:  98

Planning/Conflict Article Count:  17

Urban Futures Article Count:  3

Urban Transformation in Europe and China Article Count:  2

Regional Design Article Count:  5

Nordic Planning Article Count:  2

Planning Theories Article Count:  12

Global South & East Article Count:  9

Small Towns Article Count:  2

Rural Planning Article Count:  3

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