THEMATIC GROUPS
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- Category: Transboundary Planning and Governance
Dear all,
Last week we had a small but productive TG meeting, reflecting on 2023 and thinking about activities for 2024. Our main activity is of course the AESOP Annual Congress in Paris. Our TG is responsible for TRACK 4 BORDERS “Transboundary planning for sustainability and cohesion”. Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is already on January 8th. Further information about the congress can be found here: https://aesop-planning.eu/paris
In the TG meeting, we continued our conversation about “Planning across borders in times of war and geopolitical conflict” – the theme of a roundtable organized at the Lodz congress this July. Although there will be no roundtable on the subject at next year’s congress, we invite you to submit an abstract related to the theme if you are interested, and we will make sure to bundle related abstracts into dedicated sessions. Don’t hesitate to contact track chair Alois Humer (
I would also like to share information about two online events, organized in the context of VASAB, which might be of interest to some TG members:
January 19th: VASAB webinar on project idea development https://vasab.org/event/vasab-webinar-on-project-idea-development/
February 29th: VASAB Webinar on Spatial Resilience and Spatial Planning https://vasab.org/event/save-the-date-vasab-webinar-on-spatial-resilience-and-spatial-planning/
Finally, let me extend my warmest holiday wishes to all of you! It has been a busy year and I hope that all of you can take some time to rest and recharge during the upcoming holiday season. Let’s meet again in 2024!
Best wishes,
Eva
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- Category: Planning and Complexity
Towards the end of 2023, we have news to share to kick-start all of us into 2024.
We have noticed many publications in the past year that can boost all of our collective thinking even more. Use this form https://forms.gle/gJYhTfN5DuaBMbpM9 to share your own ones on planning and complexity, or other recommendations. The form also includes our collection of key concepts and terms from Manchester in 2023, and all further ideas are welcome.
We invite you to join our new LinkedIn group and also share relevant information and debates there. Visit at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12735445/
Most importantly, our focus for the 2024 edition of the thematic group’s activities: we will collectively investigate the issue of TIME and its interlinkages with complexity thinking. TIME is a fascinating topic. Everything comes to life, evolves, transforms, and sometimes even repeats itself over time. Actions and planning interventions necessarily deal with time: sometimes as a resource, others as a pressing condition. In short, time is unavoidable. It is an omnipresent aspect, especially for those considering complexity seriously.
TIME/LESS: Sensing, Designing, Planning — the motto for the events that will take place in the following months! On the one hand, this title stresses the implications of (not) thinking about time both from theoretical and empirical perspectives, through the lens of sensing, designing, and planning. On the other hand, it reflects on and questions the timeless character of the conventions, practices, and patterns that are (not yet) affected by the passage of time.
To help plan for our upcoming activities, we encourage you to mark your calendars with the following dates - please also share widely with potential others:
UPCOMING EVENTS
- AESOP Congress (Paris) July 2024 – https://aesop-planning.eu/paris
If you are planning to come to Paris, please let us know. Note the deadlines for regular submissions on 8 and 15 January 2024 (!). Some members and friends of the thematic group have already informally confirmed their presence. Your direct confirmation will help us in setting the best format for the gathering.
We invite you to an evening event, hosted from within our group (https://aesop-planning.eu/paris-evening-event-02). Help the preparation of the evening session at AESOP 2024 by answering this Mentimeter poll: https://www.menti.com/alfkf89wog3q
We also invite you to consider submitting to track 17 (risks, https://aesop-planning.eu/paris-track-17) that we are co-chairing.
- TG Conference, November 28-29/30, 2024 (call for abstracts out ca. in March 2024)
The conference will occur in Aachen (Germany) and will be hosted by RWTH University. Due to its central location, bordering Belgium and The Netherlands along with its vicinity to multiple major cities, it is highly accessible. There is the possibility that the event will be extended to include Saturday, November 30th depending on the number of abstracts received.
Further information will be upcoming. The event is organised by Robin Chang, Fabio Bayro Kaiser and Stefano Cozzolino (local organising team 2024), with support from Christian Lamker and Ward Rauws (thematic group coordinators).
- Further online events
Stay tuned...
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- Category: New Technologies & Planning
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - 36th AESOP Annual Congress 2024 Paris, July 8-12 2024
GAME CHANGER? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions
All TG NTP Members and other Colleagues interested in the subject of New Technologies and Planning are cordially invited to submit a contribution to Track 16 NETWORKS AND DATA: Planning and socio-technical systems, digital methods and technologies
Please visit the AESOP 2024 PARIS CONGRESS website for more information!
To submit your abstract please click here: https://aesop-planning.eu/paris-for-authors
24 November 2023 - Open call for abstracts
08 January 2024 - Deadline for abstracts EXTENDED until 31 January 2024!
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- Category: Global South & East
Please find the link below to the session on TheoriSE: debating south-eastern turn in planning theories co-organised by Global South and East and DPU, UCL.
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- Category: Sustainable Food Planning
We are happy to announce the forthcoming XI AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference “Building Movement, Achieving Transformation”. The conference will be held in Brussels and Ghent (Belgium), from the 19th to 22th of June 2024.
The XI AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference asks how sustainable food planning can become more embedded into socially innovative and transformative movements. How can we strategically support the multiple communities imagining alternative futures? How can we mobilize around the sustainable transformation of food systems? How can we start from the farmers’ perspectives in that endeavour? What can design contribute?
Proposals for either papers or special sessions are welcome on the following key thematic axes:
- Spatial planning, soil and the land question
- A food system lens on architecture, urban planning and design
- Innovative governance and policy frameworks
- Socio-ecologically just food systems
- The challenge of movement building
The deadline for abstract submission is the 15th of January 2024.
JOIN US AND SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT HERE (http://bit.ly/Aesopsfp2024)
For any questions, email us at:
On behalf of the AESOP SFP organizing team, Prof. Michiel Dehaene, University of Ghent
Prof. Elke Vanempten, ILVO-Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food & VUB-Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research
Dr. Alessandra Manganelli, HafenCity University, Hamburg
https://aesopsfp.wordpress.com/conference2024/AESOP_SFP_24_call_for_papers.pdf
- Conference of the AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures “Public space and peace building: from degenerative to regenerative environments”
- Online session on Theorise: Debating south-eastern turn in urban theories
- Call for papers: "Regions in evolution. Transitions, renewal and emerging forms of regionalisation" (BELGEO)
- Decolonisation of Planning Praxis in Africa
