Published at: 30 August 2015
Published at: 30 August 2015
Published at: 4 August 2015
Published at: 14 April 2015
Published at: 10 April 2015
BECOMING LOCAL PORTO 'Generative Places, Smart Approaches, Happy People'
24th – 25th September, 2015
Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto – PORTUGAL
http://citta-conference.fe.up.pt/
‘BECOMING LOCAL – Generative places, smart approaches, happy people’– is the topic of the 8thCITTA Conference and AESOP Thematic Group on Public Spaces & Urban Cultures event organized by CITTA - Research Center for Territory, Transport and Environment, held at the Faculty of Engineering, Porto University, Portugal, on the 24th-25th September 2015.
The conference aims to investigate and discuss some main topics: (1) Real and virtual boundaries / Physical dimension (2) (Un)successful mediation / Social dimension and (3) Local identities and meanings / Cultural dimension.
Deadline for abstract submission:30 April 2015
Keynote Speakers: Ali Madanipour – (University of Newcastle, UK / Representative AESOP TG - Public Spaces & Urban Cultures); Carlos Fortuna (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Sako Musterd (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
AESOP TG Representatives: Burcu Yigit Turan, Gabriella Esposito de Vita
For more information about the call please visit: http://citta-conference.fe.up.pt/
Published at: 6 February 2015
THE POWER of PLACES and THE Places of POWER (4-6 June 2015, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)
https://becominglocalglasgow.wordpress.com
Contact person: Georgiana Varna at georgiana.varna@glasgow.ac.uk
Deadline for abstract submission: 1 April 2015
Keynote speakers: Matthew Carmona (Bartlett School of Planning, UCL) and Panu Lehtovuori (Tampere University of Technology, School of Architecture)
AESOP TG Representatives: Celia Ghyka (Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania) and Ceren Sezer (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
(The event is free of charge, however, we kindly ask you to secure your own travel and accommodation arrangements.)
Published at: 4 November 2014
Published at: 16 October 2014
BECOMING LOCAL PARIS / OCTOBER 23-25, 2014 / PARIS LA VILLETTE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
http://becominglocalparis.wordpress.com
The Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie of La Villette School of Architecture organizes a three-day workshop for the AESOP thematic group of “Public Spaces and Urban Cultures”. The Parisian meeting will be the fourth to take place under the ‘Becoming Local’ theme following Istanbul (November 2013), Bucharest (June 2014) and Vienna (August 2014). The aim of the ‘Becoming Local’ series is to discuss and share international, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary perspectives in the study of public spaces and urban cultures. (For more information about the previous meetings, visit: http://www.becominglocalistanbul.org / http://becominglocalbucharest.ro)
Published at: 11 August 2014
Published at: 18 July 2014
The AESOP Thematic Group on Public Spaces and Urban Cultures hosts a one-day networking meeting “Becoming Local Vienna”, which is organized by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at) at Vienna University of Technology. The meeting will explore local links between the umbrella theme “Becoming local” and issues of emancipation in planning and design, which lie in the focus of successive WWTF summer school (30th Aug to 5th Sep). The focus will be put primarily on practical experiences and empirical approaches. Moreover, the meeting seeks to produce concrete outputs and conclusions concerning possibilities and limitations of various approaches and methods to empowering and constituting city publics in an inclusive way.
