Typology of events and activities

Colloquiums: Meetings are open to the public but require registration. In these events, an already published article will be presented and discussed. To participate, you must read the article in advance. 

Open Space: This is a chance for all members to present and discuss new works or topics. People who want to organise an event just need to submit their proposal to the coordinators.

TG Conference: The TG conference will look at one common topic in detail. One possible aim of the event is to publish a special issue.

Past activities and events

publications

• SPECIAL ISSUE: Cozzolino, S., & De Franco, A. (2024). Exploring conformorality in planning debates. Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning, 8(1), I. Link: https://transactions-journal.aesop-planning.eu/index.php/TrAESOP/issue/view/12

Colloquiums

• "Spatial segregation as a tactic: Voluntary and Involuntary Forms of Separation in Intentional Communities", with Tore Sager (March 20, 2026) 
• "Robots Taking Over the City?! Challenges for Ethics and Space" with Casey Lynch and Shanti Sumartojo (October 24, 2025)
• "The Last Urban Utopia: The 15-Minute City" with Alain Bertaud (January 20, 2025)
• "Radically Alternative Views on Spatial Planning and the Law: Kropotkin,  Hayek, Kelsen" with Jacobs, Moroni and Davy (in collaboration with the Thematic Group on Theories), (October 10, 2024)
• "The Crisis of Democracy in the Age of Cities” with Juval Portugali (May 16, 2024)
• "Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City” with Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Vinit Mukhija (March 28, 2023)
• "If neoliberalism is everything, maybe it is nothing" with Edwin Buitelaar (February 24, 2021)
• "Our curious silence about kindness"  with John Forester (March 24, 2021)
• "Revisiting the concept of the just city" with Stefano Moroni (April 21, 2021)
• "Back to normality or perpetual threat? Exploring scenarios of future urban life and planning" (May 26, 2021)
• "Overcoming the false dichotomy between procedural and distributive justice" with Ali Madanipour, Sabine Weck and Peter Schmitt (October 13, 2021)
• "Human Dignity in Planning" with Ben Davy (November 23, 2021)

Open space events

• "What are AESOP's shared values?", Initiator: Ben Davy (June 8, 2021)

TG Conference

• "Breaking through ‘conformorality’ in urban and regional studies", Dortmund (September 14-15, 2023)
• “Operationalising the Just City”, Online (February 24-25, 2022)

Annual congress

• "Ethics & Values", World Planning Schools Congress, Helsinki, Finland - Track 8  (29 June - 3 July 2026) 
• "Open City"  Special session, World Planning Schools Congress, Helsinki, Finland - Track 8  (29 June - 3 July 2026) 
• "Ethics, Values and Planning", AESOP Congress, Istanbul, Turkey - Track 14 (July 8-11, 2025)
• Roundtable EUROPEAN VALUES AND SPATIAL PLANNING (organised in collaboration with the Thematic Group on Theories), AESOP Congress, Paris, France - Track 9: Inclusion (July 8-12, 2024) 
• "Planning for Fair, Plural, and Welcoming Cities", AESOP Congress, Paris, France - Track 9: Inclusion (July 8-12, 2024)
• "Planning for inclusive, pluralistic and just cities", AESOP Congress, Lodz, Poland - Track 9: Inclusivity (July 11-15, 2023)
• “Making and unmaking spatial inequalities”, AESOP Congress Tartu, Estonia – Track 9: Spatialities (July 25-29, 2022)