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Planning Theory Lecture Series 2023
BEYOND ‘INVITED’ PARTICIPATION: practices of agonistic citizenship in urban transformation
14 June - 19 July 2023, Wednesdays 5:00–6:30 pm s.t. CEST
The ideal and practice of citizens participation has long played a central role in the democratic understanding of urban planning processes. As such, however, participatory planning practices have always been contested in terms of the actual fulfilment of their promise of democracy. More recently, radical critique of 'invited spaces' for citizens involvement in the shaping of urban spaces has been backed by a reappraisal of agonism as defining dimension of democratic politics. As it views contention and conflict as necessary dimensions of democratic politics, this critical perspective reminds us not only of the fallibility and undecidability of participatory practices, but also of the emancipatory and transformative potential of agonistic engagement. Moving beyond protest and contestation, this critique is ever more often translated into forms of civic activism that 'invent' and reframe participation as agonistic engagement with creating alternatives.
This lecture series explores recent experiences sharing this generative and experimental attitude towards turning critique of 'invited' participation into new democratic alternatives. We analyse concepts adopted and pathways taken by these civic initiatives in addressing sustainable change and discuss their experience in establishing a productive if not unproblematic agonistic relationship with the institutional field of urban policy and planning.
14.06 Place, power and participation: protracted conflicts and insurgent citizenship in planning processes, Donagh Horgan (Inholland University Rotterdam)
21.06 The right to public space in Madrid: sharing the space while learning how to do it, Cristina Braschi (Université Catholique de Louvain)
05.07 The Common as a mode of radical democratisation: public-common institutions in the European context, Iolanda Bianchi (University of Antwerp)
12.07 Beni comuni in Naples: processes of commoning in the interaction between self-governed spaces and the municipality, Gaia Pilia (VUB / ULB, Brussels)
19.07 Urban development via public-civic partnerships: forms of cooperation, controversies and modelling attempts, Felix Marlow and Rebecca Wall (HU Berlin)
Concept and organisation: Enrico Gualini and Nils Grube with Liliane Gottschalk and Emil Jung, Chair of Planning Theory and Urban-Regional Policy Analysis
All lectures online (via Zoom):
Meeting ID: 667 6812 3079 https://tu-berlin.zoom.us/j/66768123079?pwd=Z0RXV3ArSzhGT2VWRysyaHQ5UUw4dz09
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- Category: Public Spaces and Urban Cultures
The first 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 Workshop Helsinki was attended by participants from Finland, Norway, Germany, Italy, and Palestine, in addition to master’s students from the Urban Studies and Planning (USP) programme at Aalto University. The event included visits to two public libraries in Helsinki with presentations from designers and library staff, presentations by participants, and a workshop, which ended in a public discussion at the Oodi Library. Discussions that started with public libraries as generators of peace expanded to address topics related to the location of libraries within planning processes, funding of libraries, participatory approaches, their changing programmes and relation to public spaces were discussed.
Thanks to Christine Mady, Hossam Hewidy, Ebba Högström, and Matej Nikšič for organizing and bringing this event to life!
You will find the complete report here.
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- Category: Global South & East
Dear all,
Please join us for an online lecture on "Publication from the South" by Dr. Olivier Sykes from University of Liverpool on 18th May at 3pm London time. Please find Dr. Sykes' profile here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/staff/olivier-sykes/. Please find the Zoom invite below:
Topic: AESOP global south group seminar series - Guest Speaker Dr Olivier Sykes
Time: May 18, 2023 03:00 PM London
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https://liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.
Meeting ID: 980 2996 9675
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- Category: Planning, Law and Property rights
How are planning and law related? How can spatial planners’ interventions in property rights be justified? Who benefits from spatial planning in a society committed to the rule of law?Last year, our Land Policy Reading Club was dedicated to re-reading classic literature on land policy. In 2023, we re-read more current literature on land, property, and spatial planning. Please find more information on the LAND POLICY READING CLUB here: readingclub.landpolicy.de The (online) reading club is organized in cooperation with the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR) and the AESOP Thematic Group on Planning, Law and Property Rights.To accept our invitation, please register at readingclub.landpolicy.de or contact
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An online lecture on "International Planning Education" by Paulo Silva, AESOP representative to GPEAN, GPEAN Vice Chair, organised by the thematic group on Global South and East on 14th April, 2023
- AESOP TG GLOBAL SOUTH - ONLINE LECTURE -14 APRIL
- Invitation: Pre-Conference Keynote "Generalized Trust and the Governance of Complex Systems" (Prof. Sakano, ONLINE, Fri 17 March, 10.00h CET)
- Annual conference of TG on Ethics, Values & Planning: "Breaking through ‘conformorality’ in urban and regional studies" (14 & 15 September 2023, Dortmund)
- Annual conference of TG on Ethics, Values & Planning: "Breaking through ‘conformorality’ in urban and regional studies" (14 & 15 September 2023, Dortmund)
