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INVITATION THEMATIC GROUP LAUNCHING EVENT, AESOP HELSINKI CONFERENCE, FINLAND
Date: Thursday 8th July, 5.30-7pm.
Place: Track10_SCCRP-T10, Room 22.
The newly established AESOP thematic group on Public Spaces and Urban Cultures is inviting you to the launching event to be held during the AESOP Annual Conference in Helsinki, Finland, in June 2010. Public spaces as arenas of social interaction are one of the vital elements of city’s public life as they play a significant role to bring together different groups of people from different cultural backgrounds regardless to aspects of class, ethnic origin, gender and age. Public spaces, however, are under the pressure of globalization, privatization at the macrolevel and of city image and marketing strategies as well as other private sector inspired regeneration strategies at the microlevel. During the phase of postfordist transitions, especially cultural approaches within the planning community have characterized debates on how to deal with this manifest pressures on public spaces. With rising rhythms of development. the degree of conflicts and fragmentation in public spaces – taken from a descriptive perspective – is changing. From a normative perspective, the role of public spaces as places for integration and democracy is, therefore, challenged and contested.
The new AESOP Thematic Group on Public Spaces and Urban Cultures aims at an improved understanding of the relational nature of public spaces by using different concepts of urban culture as analytical perspectives. Thereby, debates shall be stimulated that relate to three main strands of investigation:
- Issues of artistic and intellectual practices and urban planning;
- Emerging urban cultures and socio-spatial practices in public spaces and
- Postdisciplinary academic education regarding urban cultures and public spaces
Everybody welcome
Please feel warmly invited to join us!
Coordinators:
Ali Madanipour (Professor of Urban Design, Newcastle University)
Ceren Sezer (TU Delft)
Sabine Knierbein (SKuOR, TU Vienna)
Chiara Tornaghi (University of Leeds)
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PUBLIC SPACE AND THE CHALLENGES OF URBAN TRANSFORMATION IN EUROPE: POLITICS AND CULTURE
European Conference, 10th and 11th November 2010, Vienna, Austria
Conference theme: European cities are changing rapidly in partial response to the processes of de-industrialization, European integration and economic globalization. Public spaces of these cities, as essential ingredients of the urban image and experience, are increasingly playing an important part in this transition. A key question concerns the role that public spaces are expected to play in political, economic and cultural transformation of cities, and the impact of these transformations on the nature of public space as a shared resource. How are public authorities addressing the challenges of provision and maintenance of public space both as a catalyst for change and as a common good? The questions that will be explored revolve around three sub-themes: strategies, plans and policies; multiple roles of public space; and everyday life in the city.
Strategies, plans and policies: How do public authorities address a growing pressure on public spaces? What are the issues, strategies, and tactics of dealing with public spaces, and what do they aim to achieve? Who are the state and non-state actors involved in setting the conditions for public spaces? How are they organized and what are the relationships between different actors? How are policies initiated, formulated, implemented, reflected and finally, how do people perceive and react to such policies? How do design and planning professionals contribute with their projects to the changing conditions of public spaces? How can innovative practices contribute to redefine approaching public spaces?
Multiple roles of public space: Public space is where public life unfolds: art works are displayed, commercial messages transmitted, political power is displayed and social norms affirmed or challenged. How do these different processes take place? How do public spaces accommodate these multiple roles? How are conflicts of interest addressed? Which new phenomena of social transformation do emerge in public spaces? How do contemporary design and planning interventions renegotiate the boundaries of public space? What is the (changing) position of arts within public space as an actor between politics and people?
Everyday life and sharing the city: Public space is the realm of sociability. How do public spaces address people’s everyday needs and expectations? How are the boundaries between public and private spheres set, and how does this affect people’s daily life? How are cultural differences and social inequalities addressed in public spaces? How is local everyday life knowledge taken into account by professional disciplines planning, developing and designing public spaces? Which latent social needs get visible in public spaces? How can a fair sharing of public spaces be arranged? How do designers deal with the involvement of people in the process of producing public space? How do city representatives handle the ‘voices of people’?
Organising committee: Prof. Dr. Ali Madanipour, DI Aglaée Degros and Dr. Sabine Knierbein, Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (TU Vienna, http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at)
Abstract length: max. 200 words
Conference fee: 10 Euro (students), 30 Euro (institutions)
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 23rd June 2010 to
Notice on Abstract Acceptance: 30th July 2010
Deadline for Short Paper Submission (additional Movie or Audio Submission possible): 30th September 2010
More information:http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at
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VIIth AESOP WORKSHOP
Thematic Group on Planning and Complexity
Milan, 22 - 23 February 2008
Politecnico di Milano - Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione
Powerpoint presentation :
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Welcome addresses (prof. Alessandro Balducci - DiAP Director)
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Introductory presentations (prof. Gert de Roo and prof. Giovanni Rabino)
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Nurit Alfasi : Planning rules for the self planned city
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Stefano Moroni : Complexity, Liberal-Democracy and Planning
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Kristina L. Nilsson : Complexity perspective of planning practice
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Gert de Roo : Towards a non-linear understanding of spatial development: A story about choice and change
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Joris E Van Wezemael : Towards a materialist ontology for strategic and collaborative planning
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A.F. Cutting-Decelle, B. Young, J.P. Bourey : An ontology based approach for representing complex planning information: the PSL language
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Pietro Terna : Simulation models with intelligent agents
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J.P. Grunau, C. Hemberger, W. Schönwandt : Making the complexity of planning manageable
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Introduction and status of the book-publication of the group (Gert de Roo)
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Celino A., Concilio G., Luperti G. : Open plans in learning environments: from learning experience to planning model
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Bertil Rolf : Heuristics - Simple tools for a Complex World
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Valeria Monno : Exploring the relational complexity: pitfall and challenges to collaborative planning
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Aspa Gospodini, Stavros Sirigos : Combining Space Syntax and Land-uses for the description of urban space
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L. Diappi, P. Bolchi : Gentrification as self-organising process: a Neural Network investigation on Gentrifiers profiles
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Giordano P., Vancheri A : Interaction Spaces Theory: modelling complex systems with the details of MAS and the mathematics of Synergetics
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Vancheri A, Giordano P. and Andrey A. : Regional planning of big traffic generators placement and sustainability
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Silvia Mantovani : Playing landscape urbanism: complex rules for a new game
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