SPS Seminar: Digital Community Planning: The Open Source Way to the Top of Arnstein’s Ladder
We cordially invite all to attend the SPS Seminar Digital Community Planning: The Open Source Way to the Top of Arnstein’s Ladder by Enzo Falco 16 MARCH 12h30 , room BGWEST290 Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Julianalaan 134, 2628BL, Delft, The Netherlands. Abstract: Citizen participation in planning is still in the hands...
CALL FOR IDEAS: TU Delft Urban Thinkers’ Campus JUNE 2017
CALL FOR IDEAS: TUDelft UTC On 7, 8 and 9 June 2017, the Department of Urbanism of the TU Delft will organise an URBAN THINKERS CAMPUS. UTCs are sponsored by the World Urban Campaign and UN-HABITAT They are supposed to gather stakeholders in order to discuss specific urban development issues and agree on policy...
Seminar and Book Presentation: “Starchitecture: Scenes, Actors and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities” by Davide Ponzini
Dear colleagues You are kindly invited to attend a seminar and book presentation jointly organized by OTB and SPS. Title: Starchitecture: Scenes, Actors and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities When: Wednesday 22 March, 12.00-13.30 Where: BK, Room R, Julianalaan 134 Who: Davide Ponzini, Politecnico di Milano Davide Ponzini is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano. His new book...
Vincent Nadin new chairperson of Urbanism
As of March 1 2017, Prof. Vincent Nadin is the new chairman of the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. Vincent has the experience and the position to represent the interests of our department in the world. Staff and students say farewell to Machiel van Dorst, who chaired the Department...
CfP: RC21 Leeds : September 11-13, 2017 Rethinking Urban Global Justice: An international academic conference for critical urban studies
CALL FOR PAPERS In anticipation of the upcoming RC21 Conference, titled “Rethinking Urban Global Justice” to take place from 11-13 September in Leeds, UK, we are seeking paper proposals for a session on ‘The Political Meaning of Informal Urbanisation; building democracy while building the city’. We welcome contributions from authors working on connected topics, and who...
SPS Seminar 23 FEB: Lidewij Tummers ‘Co-housing and the Circular City’
In Europe, inhabitants increasingly take initiatives collectively to create and manage housing projects. Under the umbrella term “Collaborative housing” (co-housing) these experiences are spreading as a socially innovative practice, also generating alternative forms of knowledge on low-impact technology and operating recycling systems. The co-housing typology of clustered, self-managed dwellings offers a unique intermediate scale, between...
European Master of Urbanism (Urban Regional Networks) Final Presentation
Today, the final presentation of the European Master of Urbanism (EMU). The EMU is a flagship post-Master programme given in a consortium of four leading European universities: TU Delft (NL), KU Leuven (BE), Politecnica de Catalunya (ES) and IUAV Venice (IT). This is a special programme because students who already have a Master title go...
Ivan Thung: Challenges for Implementing the New Urban Agenda: THU 2 FEB 12h30
Thursday 2 February at 12:30–13:30 Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment TU Delft Julianalaan 134, 2628 BL Delft ROOM 01WEST620 Ivan Thung, former consultant at UN-Habitat HQ in Nairobi will describe how the agency is addressing some of the enduring urban challenges in the global south> he will give an account of the UN-Habitat’s Urban Planning...
2017 / Climate Change / Climate change adaptation / Summer School / urban design / Urban development / Urbanism
2017 Summer School ‘Planning and Design with Water’ applications now OPEN
Hey folks! Applications for the 2017 Summer School “Planning and Design with Water” are now OPEN! This Summer School introduces students from all over the world to the Dutch tradition of urban and regional planning and design with water for sustainable healthy and far cities. The school is very dynamic, with practical workshops, lectures, site...
SPS in Jane Jacobs Walk with IHS “Urban Strategies and Planning” course
On Monday 16, SPS took part in a Jane Jacobs Walk with students from the course Urban Strategies and Planning of the IHS Erasmus Rotterdam. This course is led by Alexander Jachnow and taught by Alexandra Tsatsou and Magdalena Derdzikowska, among others. There were around 25 students of many nationalities, but mainly from the Global South. Young people from...
SCUPAD Congress: Displacement: Our world in motion, Deadline for abstracts extended!
The deadline for the call for papers and contributions from practice for the 52nd SCUPAD congress has been extended. If you are looking into migration, refugees, high-skilled migration, brain drains and other forms of human displacement and their impact on cities and regions, join us for this exciting SCUPAD congress. The deadline for submission of...
Online Course ‘Rethink the City: New approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges’
Course ‘Rethink the City: New approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges’ is online! How do you plan future cities? Explore alternative theories and innovative solutions for urban challenges in the global south. Enrol HERE. The Chair of Spatial Planning coordinated one of the main sections of this course, namely, the Spatial Justice component. About this...
