THEMATIC GROUPS
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- Category: Planning/Conflict
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
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- Category: Public Spaces and Urban Cultures
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/
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- Category: Planning and Complexity
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
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]
Stimulating quality of place: governing tensions between robustness and flexibility - Stefan Hartman
Translational self-organization: a way out of the participatory planning paradox? - Beitske Boonstra
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
Complex planning practice in blooming mining communities in Northern Sweden - Kristina L. Nilsson
Strategic governance and planning as a fractal - Lucia Dobrucka [no video available]
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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:
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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.
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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?
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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.
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HUMAN CITIES II: Reclaiming public space
Workshop in LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, 26/27th May 2011
Hosted by Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Trnovski pristan 2, 1000 Ljubljana
Introduction:
The project Human Cities II: Reclaiming public space aims to highlight the values of public spaces in European cities and an understanding of different approaches that contribute to innovative and effective provision of public space in cities. It focuses on the users of public spaces in cities and examines how they experience, interpret and consequently use spaces. Special attention is given to urban equipment, in particular its role in (not) encouraging the activities in public spaces. Public spaces are not understood only as a physical form, but also as a social network to be established between users. Partners involved in the project are coming from Brussels (La Cambre, ProMateria), Milano (Politecnico di Milano), Saint‐Etienne (Cité de design) and Ljubljana (Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia – UIRS).
For more information please visit http://www.humancities.eu.
The project and event is funded with the support from the European Commission – Programme Culture 2007‐
2013, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia.
Intention & structure of the workshop:
Since the project is merging both players from practice and academia, it seems important to promote the approaches from both spheres to complement each other. The workshop focuses on the presentations of Slovenian initiatives that enhance the process of reclaiming the public space with their innovative activities as well as on the scientific approaches in the field of urban design. Therefore the local initiatives were invited to represent themselves in one of Ljubljana parks during the workshop. To highlight the scientific approaches to public space the members of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP – Thematic Group “Public Spaces and Urban Cultures) were invited to participate to the meeting as guests to the workshop.
Two‐day workshop is structured into three sections. Thursday morning is devoted to regular project review and prospective activities. Thursday afternoon is devoted to open‐air presentations of local initiatives from Slovenia and to a public debate related to the role of such initiatives in reclaiming public spaces. Friday is reserved for a study tour of all the partners and invited guests to Slovenian Carst and Coast, where the examples of public spaces will be presented.
The official language of the workshop is English.
Contacts of Human Cities UIRS team:
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Project leader: Barbara Goličnik Marušić / barbara.golicnik‐
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- Announcement: AESOP Thematic Group “Public Spaces and Urban Cultures”, Annual Meeting 11/2011
- 9th Meeting "Self organizing and Spatial Planning"
- Invitation: The Thematic Group Launching Event, AESOP Helsinki Conference, Finland
- Call for Paper: Public Space and The Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe: Politics and Culture
