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TRIA ISSUE N. 32 (June 2024)
http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/tria
CALL FOR PAPERS
Embracing Public Space and Urban Cultures:
Understanding and Acting on Complexity of Contemporary Cities
Guest co-editors: Gabriella Esposito (CNR-IRISS, Italy), Christine Mady (Aalto University, Finland), Stefania Ragozino (CNR-IRISS, Italy)
The contemporary city undergoes continuous anthropic pressures and multiple crises that make it an organism in continuous transformation, which is complex to understand. The public realm and the socio-spatial dynamics at the urban scale can be an expression of this complexity when observed from the different perspectives that are integrated in urban studies and with multiple methods that deepen and foster the relational dynamics between the physical environment and those who inhabit and manage it.
The understanding of urban cultures, in their multiple expressions, is realised through the interpretation of the cultural practices recorded in urban spaces, which allows for the updating of concepts in the field of social theory. Moreover, urban cultures provide an understanding of the relationships between cultural phenomena and urban transformations, to implement knowledge in the analytical phase of territorial governance processes.
This issue proposes to focus on the binomial public space – urban culture to both contextualise phenomena related to distributed inequalities, conflicts, and forms of socio-spatial segregation, and to reflect and integrate forms of social innovation and processes of self-determination, the constitution of talents, tendencies, and competences, which contribute to the complex transformation of the city.
We invite empirical, theoretical and methodological papers from young or established academics interested in contributing to this discussion on ‘public space – urban cultures’.
Submission instructions:
Authors must send their full papers to
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
To enable the implementation of the peer review process and the subsequent layout of articles that will pass the review, the authors have to send to
1. FILE OF THE PAPER, prepared according to the Microsoft Word format, containing:
- Title in text language (one of the following languages: English / Italian / Spanish)
- Title in English
- Author: name, surname, affiliation of the authors (Department, University, etc..). If there are more authors the affiliations and references must be specified.
- Keywords in English: maximum five.
- Abstract in English: the abstract must contain maximum 1.500 characters (white spaces included).
- Abstract in Italian: the abstract must contain maximum 1.500 characters (white spaces included).
- Paper text: the text may consist of 20.000-30.000 characters (white spaces included). The text must contain all the pictures, tables and graphs in low resolution.
- Citations in the text: all references must be included in quotation marks without italics and caps.
- Quotes: quotes must be included within the text and their references have to be placed at the bottom of the text
- References in the text: bibliographic citations within the text, must always be reported with the author's name and year of publication, all in parentheses. For example (Rossi, 2010). All references will be given in the bibliography in the appendix to the article.
- Reference images: for each image included in the article is necessary to indicate the source and any authorizations received to their use
- Authors Profile: a short curriculum in English in Microsoft Word format of 500 characters (white space included).
- References: all the references in the text, in footnotes and in annex to the text, must be formatted as indicated below:
BOOKS: Rossi M. (2008), Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, "The Wise", V, Italian Scientific Publishing, Naples
ARTICLES in JOURNAL: Rossi M. (2008), "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet," Tria, 1, 06/2008, Italian Scientific Publishing, Naples, pp 15-22
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS, PROCEEDINGS, PAPERS IN COLLECTIVE WORKS: Rossi M. (2008), "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet," in AAVV Public Works and Landscape, edited by Nicholas Green, vol. 3, Italian Scientific Publishing, Naples
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The third event of the two-year period 2023-2024 on the working theme 'Public Spaces, Urban Cultures, and Constructing Peace' was successfully concluded.
This AESOP TG PSUC online workshop was organized together with the TG PSUC and the UnCommon Public Space Group (UPSG) at the University of California, Los Angeles. This half-day online workshop was attended by 14 participants representing 8 countries, each of whom were engaging with events in their own community-based research or practice related to public space. Participants had the opportunity to apply interdisciplinary methodologies and discuss diverse experiences and ideas on public spaces.
Thanks to Claire Nelischer, Andres Ramirez, Gus Wendel, Stefania Ragozino and Christine Mady for organizing this active and engaging online event!
The report is available here.
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- Category: Public Spaces and Urban Cultures
The second event of the two-year period 2023-2024 on the working theme 'Public Spaces, Urban Cultures, and Constructing Peace' was successfully concluded.
This AESOP TG PSUC conference in Naples took place 5 - 6 October 2023, Naples, Italy, was organized by the National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development (CNR-IRISS, Italy), together with the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg (Germany), and University of Florence – LAPEI (Italy), which was hosted by the University Federico II of Naples, Department of Architecture (Italy). The two-day event included keynote lectures, paper presentations, a fieldtrip-workshop in Bagnoli neighbourhood visiting the National Interest Site “Bagnoli-Coroglio”. In total 49 presentations were delivered in the parallel sessions.
Thanks to Stefania Ragozino, Gabriella Esposito De Vita, Chiara Belingardi, and Tihmor Viderman for organizing this vivid and memorable event!
The report is available here.
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- Category: Ethics, Values and Planning
Dear friends and members of the AESOP Thematic Group on Ethics, Values and Planning,
we want to inform and involve you in the planning of future activities.
- AESOP CONGRESS (July 2024)
The thematic group will be present at the AESOP congress with a track on Inclusion: Planning for Fair, Plural, and Welcoming Cities. Deadlines are approaching. Check this link for further information: https://aesop-planning.eu/paris-track-09. We hope to see you in Paris!
- SPECIAL ISSUE – Call for abstracts (10.01.2024)
Building upon the recent annual conference that took place in Dortmund (September 2023), we have launched a call for papers for a special issue on “Exploring Conformorality in Planning Debates: Perspectives and Implications” to be published in TRANSACTIONS (the open-access and scopus journal of AESOP). Check this link for the call: https://transactions-journal.aesop-planning.eu/index.php/TrAESOP/announcement/view/8
- OTHERS
Soon, we will start planning new activities for the new year. As usual, you can suggest topics and articles for discussion during an online event. Do you have an idea? Please write it down at this link: https://forms.gle/tqMoJ5z5sp5qxWyT7
If you are interested in contributing to the group activities, please contact us anytime.
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The AESOP TG Ethics, Values and Planning welcomes contributions to a themed special issue of Transactions of AESOP on the theme Exploring Conformorality in Planning Debates: Perspectives and Implications, under the Guest Editorship of Dr. Stefano Cozzolino (ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Dortmund, Germany) and Dr. Anita De Franco (Milan Polytechnic University, Italy).
Introducing conformorality
The concept of “conformorality” (Lisciandra et al., 2013) expresses the tendency of groups and communities to conform to certain normative judgments due to peer pressure. It speaks to the tendency of individuals to align with particular values to secure acceptance within a specific group. This issue has been explored in various fields (e.g., ethics, ethology, experimental psychology, philosophy). In this themed special issue, we explore its implications for issues relevant to planning theory and practice.
Crucial questions
Planning scholars are not exempt from conformorality. They advance ideas and solutions influenced by widespread value-based arguments and moral pressure from the planning community. Key related questions might include - To what extent is “conformorality” relevant in opinion-shaping processes, especially concerning spatial transformation and various ethical and moral perspectives on urban issues? How often do planners consider (and reconsider) the ways in which they work and think, even beyond their practical needs (Moroni, 2023)? How often do planning theorists challenge consensual ideas? Are attempts in this regard (Banham et al., 1969) condemned to fall under the accusation of being “naive,” “insensitive,” or “part of the problem”?
Key challenges
It is crucial to recognise that an excess of conformorality can reduce fair debate and hamper innovative ideas and solutions (Turiel, 2002; Talbe, 2012; Kelly et al., 2017; Chituc & Sinnott-Armstrong, 2020; Carlsson et al., 2021; Alshaalan & Gummerum, 2022). Planning policies, urban studies, and human geography are not exempt from this risk (Hartman, 1984/2002; Hesse, 2015; Farrow et al., 2017; Potts, 2020; Kirchherr, 2022). Debates on sustainability, the circular economy, commons, commodification, densification, touristification, segregation, gentrification, digitalisation, informality, inequality, participation, neoliberalism, post-colonialism, peripheries-peripherality, privatisation, social justice, and the just city are all susceptible to conformorality.
A call for contributions
For this special issue, the Call for Papers welcomes both conceptual and empirical papers that critically discuss and explore how the specific issue of “conformorality”, or the more general problem of how “conformism” affects urban planning and regional studies’ debates, by analysing and exploring a specific research topic. Authors are urged to address two key questions in their submissions:
1 - Which aspects of your chosen theme are affected by conformorality? How does conformorality influence the debate on this particular topic?
2 - What can and should be done to overcome the current impasse and introduce new perspectives and ideas to deal with this particular urban issue?
Abstract Submission - Deadline 10 January 2024
As a first step authors are invited to submit an abstract of no more than 200 words which outlines the themes and content of their proposed papers to the Guest Editors Dr. Stefano Cozzolino
Full paper format - First full paper draft submission 01 March 2024
Authors whose abstracts are selected will be invited to submit their original contributions in the form of full papers of 5000 up to 7000 words (including footnotes and references) by 01 March 2024.
The connection between the AESOP thematic group Ethics, Values and Plannig and this special issue
The special issue builds on the annual conference of AESOP TG Ethics, Values and Planning: “Breaking through ‘Conformorality’ in urban and regional studies” (Dortmund, September 14-15, 2023; conference report), while also opening the call to scholars who want to engage in the debate.
Important dates:
- 11 December 2023: open call for abstract submissions (200 words)
- 10 January 2024: call for abstracts closes
- 20 January 2024: selection/acceptance of contributors from the open call for abstract
- 1 March 2024: first drafts of full papers received, and review process starts
- 1-15 March 2024: first round of reviews returned to authors
- 30 April 2024: second revised drafts received
- 1-15 May 2024: second round of referee process
- 30 May 2024: final submission to the journal
- July/August 2024: publication and conclusion of the special issue
Guest Editors
Dr. Stefano Cozzolino, ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Dortmund, Germany -
Dr. Anita De Franco, Milan Polytechnic University, Italy -
Keywords
Conformity, Conformorality, Ethics, Moral judgements, Normative principles, Planning theories, Social norms and conventions, Urban planning debates, Urban policies, Urban studies
Some Key References
Alshaalan, H., & Gummerum, M. (2022). Conformity on moral, social conventional and decency issues in the United Kingdom and Kuwait. International Journal of Psychology, 57(2), 261-270.
Banham, R., Barker, P., Hall, P. and Price, C. (1969) ‘Non-plan: an experiment in freedom’, New Society 26: 435–43
Carlsson, M., Finseraas, H., Midtbøen, A. H., & Rafnsdóttir, G. L. (2021). Gender bias in academic recruitment? Evidence from a survey experiment in the Nordic region. European Sociological Review, 37(3), 399-410.
Chituc, V., & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (2020). Moral conformity and its philosophical lessons. Philosophical Psychology, 33(2), 262-282.
Cialdini, R.B., & Goldstein, N.J. (2004). Social influence: Compliance and conformity. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 591–621.
Hartman, C. (1984/2002). Right to stay put, reprinted in: Between Eminence and Notoriety. New Brunswick, NJ: CUPR Press.
Hesse, M. (2015). Megaurban regions: Epistemology, discourse patterns, big urban business. In J. Harrison & M. Hoyler, Megaregions (pp. 29–50). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Kelly, M., Ngo, L., Chituc, V., Huettel, S., & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (2017). Moral conformity in online interactions: Rational justifications increase influence of peer opinions on moral judgments. Social Influence, 12(2-3), 57-68.
Kirchherr, J. (2022). Bullshit in the sustainability and transitions literature: A provocation. Circular Economy and Sustainability, 1-6.
Lisciandra, C., Postma-Nilsenová, M., & Colombo, M. (2013). Conformorality. A study on group conditioning of normative judgment. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 4, 751-764.
Moroni, S. (2023). Distinguishing ‘planning’ from the ‘plan’. Institutional and professional implications of taking urban complexity seriously. European Planning Studies, 1-15.
Potts, R. (2020). Is a New ‘Planning 3.0’ Paradigm Emerging? Exploring the Relationship between Digital Technologies and Planning Theory and Practice. Planning Theory & Practice, 21 (2), 272-289.
Turiel, E. (2002). The culture of morality: Social development, context, and conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- TG TPG / Happy holidays and events 2024
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- Video recording of the session on TheoriSE: debating south-eastern turn in planning theories, co-organised with DPU, UCL
