Call for abstracts: AESOP TG Public Spaces and Urban Cultures, Becoming Local Porto Meeting “Generative Places, Smart Approaches, Happy People”
Join us in Porto for the AESOP TG Becoming Local Porto Meeting “Generative Places, Smart Approaches, Happy People” 24th – 25th September, 2015 // Deadline for abstract submission:30 April 2015 Hosting Institution: Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto – PORTUGAL AESOP TG Representatives: Burcu Yigit Turan, Gabriella Esposito de Vita Keynote Speakers: Ali Madanipour – (University...
Call for abstracts : Built Environment Special Issue “Public Spaces and Urban Justice” (Deadline for abstracts: June 1, 2015)
We are pleased to announce the special issue of the esteemed academic journal Built Environment on the topic of Public Spaces and Urban Justice. This special issue is edited by Matej Nikšič (Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia), Gabriel Pascariu (University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu, Bucharest, Romania), Ceren Sezer (Delft University...
Lecture at Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam on Marketplaces
Ceren Sezer (TU Delft) and Freek Janssens (UvA) gave a lecture on ‘Marketplaces as an urban development strategy’ at Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam as a part a temporary Master program called System D Academy. The Sandberg Institute is the postgraduate department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam. It offers Master’s programmes in Fine Arts (MFA), Interior Architecture (MIA), Applied...
Call for abstracts: The power of places & the places of power
University of Glasgow is hosting AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures Annual Meeting (4-6 June 2015, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom) ‘Becoming Local’ Series Annual Meeting : The power of places & the places of power Deadline for abstract submission: 1 April 2015 Keynote speakers: Matthew Carmona (Bartlett School of Planning, UCL) and Panu Lehtovuori (Tampere...
AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures is organising a special session in AESOP Prague Congress – July 2015
LEARNING FROM the ‘BECOMING LOCAL’ MEETING SERIES: Overarching the divide between the current limits of planning and design research and the critical social practice AESOP Conference Prague, 13th to 16th July 2015 Special Session(s) for TRACK 06: Urban Design Quality and its Social Dimension – Organized by Burcu Yigit Turan (Ozyegin University, Istanbul), Sabine Knierbein...
Expert Meeting on Marketplaces During AESOP’s Annual Congress
This Thursday July 10th, at 13:45, a group of experts will meet in Utrecht, the Netherlands, to discuss the role of Marketplaces as Urban Development Strategies. The discussion will cover a wide variety of topics, from communities and governance to actual market design. We are proud to present the participants: – Arnold Reijndorp, architect, independent researcher, and...
Brenda Hunt, Area manager of the Eastern Docklands of Amsterdam, at the SPS Seminar Series
Brenda Hunt is Area manager (Gebiedsmanager) for the Oostelijk Havengebied and the Science Park of Amsterdam (District Oost). Brenda, together with colleague Peter Groenendaal, joined the SPS Seminar on February 20 2014 to talk about the activity of area manager, as conceived by the municipality of Amsterdam. As area manager, Brenda is responsible for the areas...
Call for Papers: The AESOP TG Public Spaces and Urban Cultures, Becoming Local Bucharest Meeting (Deadline for Abstracts: 14 April 2014)
BECOMING LOCAL BUCHAREST MEETING (June 11-14, 2014) Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism will host a four-day annual meeting of the AESOP thematic group of Public Spaces and Urban Cultures in Bucharest, Romania. The meeting is a second one under ‘Becoming Local’ theme, following an inspiring first meeting in Istanbul in November 2013 ( http://www.becominglocalistanbul.org...
Roundtable session at AESOP 2014: Marketplaces as an Urban Development Strategy
Marketplaces are often romanticised as traditional spaces of ‘pure’ encounters between producers and consumers in an increasingly privatised world. Farmer’s Markets are well-known example of this and several city governments seem to have embraced the urban marketplace as a tool for ‘placemaking.’ Yet this enthusiasm needs to be supported by a critical analysis of...
The UN HABITAT invites the AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces & Urban Cultures to WUF7, Medellin Colombia
The UN HABITAT invited the AESOP thematic group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures to organize a networking event at The World Urban Forum 7 (WUF7) in April 5-11 2014, Medellin, Colombia. To foster dialogue between global tendencies and local needs, this networking session will be organized as open as possible to the local public, inviting...
The AESOP TG Public Spaces and Urban Cultures Becoming Local Istanbul Meeting
The AESOP TG Public Spaces and Urban Cultures (PSUC) and Ozyegin University held a very productive meeting in Istanbul (Nov 20-23, 2013) under the working theme, Becoming Local. PSUC Coordination team would like to thank to all of the local committee members, particularly to the Dean of Faculty of Architecture, Orhan Hacihasanoglu and coordinator Burcu...
Call for abstracts (AESOP Thematic group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures_Becoming Local Series (2013-2015) Istanbul Meeting (Nov 20-23 2013)
AESOP (The Association of European Schools of Planning) THEMATIC GROUP PUBLIC SPACES AND URBAN CULTURES BECOMING LOCAL SERIES (2013-2015) ISTANBUL MEETING (Nov, 20-23 2013) Deadine for abstracts: October 21 2013 Please join us in the forthcoming first event of the Association of European Schools of Planning’s Thematic Group on Public Spaces and Urban Cultures within the “Becoming Local Series” 2013...
