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Category: Public Spaces and Urban Cultures

Published: 03 December 2021

The AESOP 2022 Congress  'Space for Species: Redefining Spatial Justice' will take place in Tartu, Estonia on July 25-29, 2022!

The AESOP Thematic Group Public Space and Urban Cultures was charged to co-chair the TRACK #2 CULTURE and we would be happy if you would consider submitting an abstract to that track.

*Deadline for abstract submission is February 1, 2022*

TRACK 2 CULTURE: Reinterpreting the spatial value of culture, heritage and tourism 
Stefania Ragozino (National Research Council of Italy IRISS, University of Naples, Italy)
Antonio Jose Salvador (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Anastasia Sinitsyna (University of Tartu, Estonia)

It is argued that culture, heritage and tourism can play a relevant role in planning. This is demonstrated in a high number of policies, practices, European projects, theoretical and methodological approaches recognizing these elements as resources for sustainable development of territories.

While encouraging experiences demonstrate that culture can be a perfect driver for regeneration, sustainable development and economic prosperity, a marked plurality of failures, contradictions and knowledge gaps were reported. The latter are related to different and complex issues in which various themes overlap such as diversity, cultural and social inclusion, territorial imbalances, economic and environmental sustainability, governance, and education.

Along the transitional current moment that we are living in terms of ecology, technology, competitiveness and growth, the challenges and crises posed –health or climate hazards, interruptions in economic growth, political upheavals and social transformations–are emphasising the necessity of reinterpreting spatial values of culture, heritage and tourism, which are able to go beyond conventional visions. Also, revisiting the public realm in light of recent global events is necessary to support both urban residents as well as tourists through resilient approaches.

Track #2 CULTURE welcomes multidisciplinary contributions that will cross this slippery slope from theoretical, methodological, empirical (qualitative and/or quantitative) perspectives, to address one or more of the following topics:

• Actors and engagement tools to promote culture and (material and immaterial) heritage for planning 

• Heritage-led regeneration initiatives and Heritage communities

• Culture, public space and spatial justice

• Newly emerged cultural practices and business models as response to pandemic

• Transition towards online: traditional vs new locational patterns of arts and culture

• Revisiting tourism and its management in relation to planning

• Inclusive governance and management models for traditional, marginalized, and non-touristic heritage sites

• New digital tools, transferable, interdisciplinary and transversal competences to cope with culture, heritage and tourism challenges 

Keywords: culture, heritage, tourism, public space, spatial justice, cultural practices

Track #2 Co-Chairs announce that a call for papers on international journal will be launched after the congress.

TG PSUC Representatives: Stefania Ragozino (Italy), Tihomir Viderman (Germany)
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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS

Category: Planning and Complexity

Published: 28 November 2021

21-22 July 2022, Tallinn, Estonia

Cities are in the midst of a revolution fueled by so-called smartification and digitalization of the urban. Myriads of ubiquitous, bundled digital systems impact profoundly the ways we use, adapt and transform the city. Processing these heterogenous and geographically distributed sources of data with help of advanced data analytics shows great potential for fine grain understandings of urban change. Meanwhile, more creative, art-based methods for tracing urban change, such as deep mapping, storytelling and spatial narratives, should not be put aside.

The workshop aims to explore and critically discuss various ways of Sensing the City and how it can enable planners, decision makings and others involved in shaping the city to better understand the dynamics of complex urban patterns.

Background conference theme

A diversity of widely available digital applications makes our life easier, for instance with regard to travelling, communication, networking and shopping. In addition to these dissipated smart phone applications, many of the digital tools purposefully aim at steering us for safety, efficiency and sustainability. Planned smart urban solutions allegedly have capacity for mitigating climate change via “green” tech and optimization. Moreover, digitalization is suggested to help in adapting sudden changes in society, e.g. Pandemic, climate change adaptation.

Despite, or maybe because of, their potential, smartification and digitalization of cities needs critical reflection. With moving bigger parts of our lives to the online world, the spatial principles of traditional retail shift, fake news and mis-information challenge democratic decision making, surveillance increases and dependency of the public sector on globally operating technology firms grows. There are also methodological concerns as some digital city models are presented tools to predict and control urban systems and thus ignoring the complexity and evolutionary resilience of cities. Moreover, using new technologies sometimes seems to become a goal in itself, reducing opportunities for other, equally valuable, methods of sensing the city. 

To advance urban governance for better future cities, it is necessary to explore these tools, methods and emerging human behavior patterns in smart cities, along with individual preferences, trends and ethical connotations. Crucial is to recognize and embrace the intrinsic uncertainty and complexity of technology mediated cities and societies.

Conference themes

• Practical and methodological approaches of sensing the city: analyses, planning, data management for grasping the dynamics of complex urban patterns at various scales
• Understanding the ‘smartification’ of cities: ontological/meta-level viewpoints and challenges and opportunities resulting from the complexity of urban life
• Societal and policy implications – ethical principles for using urban data, co-evolution of technology and urban governance, and the digital empowerment of civil society 

Program

The full program is available HERE. 

Date and location

The workshop is hosted by the Academy of Architecture and Urban Studies, at the Tallinn University of Technology. The workshop will take place on July 21-22rd, 2022 in Tallinn, Estonia. The workshop will be free of charge.

The venue for the workshop is the Palo Alto Club, Tallinn. 

Please note that the workshop can be easily combined with AESOP’s Annual conference 2022, which starts on 25th of July in Tartu, Estonia.

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Parent Category: THEMATIC GROUPS

Category: Planning Theories

Published: 24 November 2021

 "Planning and Space", introduced by Scott D. Campbell (University of Michigan) and moderated by Meike Levin-Keitel (TU Dortmund University).

December 7, 2021, 4 p.m. CET, on Zoom.

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Category: Planning and Complexity

Published: 15 November 2021

Online and interactive book presentation of the Handbook on Cities & Complexity 

The event will be held on 9th of December 2021: 14:00-16:00 Central European Time / 15:00-17:00 Israelian time

The program includes:

• An introduction on the book by Editor Juval Portugali 
• 2x 5min-talks on Uncertainty & Evolution by Stefano Moroni and Fernando Santos
• 2x 5min-talks on Dynamic flows & patterns by Efrat Blumenfeld and Koen Bandsma

And…plenty of room for questions & interaction

The outline of the event is as follows: 

1.  Introduction to the book - 30 min

Overall ambition and its main messages - Juval Portugali

Response by Ward Rauws, followed by Q&A

2. Uncertainty & Evolution - 30 min

Complexity and uncertainty: implications for urban planning - Stefano Moroni

Evolutionary games in cities and urban planning - Fernando Santos

Each giving a 5 min talk on their chapter, followed by a by joined Q&A on both talks 

Break

3. Dynamic flows & patterns - 30 min

- Studying the dynamics of urban traffic flows using percolation: a new

methodology for real-time urban and transportation planning - Efrat Blumenfeld

- Tailoring nudges to self-organising behavioural patterns in public space - Koen Bandsma

Each giving a 5 min talk on their chapter, followed by a by joined Q&A on both talks 

4. Plenary discussion on future research questions and challenges

5. Upcoming activities AESOP TG on Complexity and Planning

Ward Rauws