Group meetings . The members of the AESOP Thematic Group on Public Spaces and Urban Cultures meet annually to discuss and develop approaches proposed under the group’s working topic. These meetings mostly take form of workshops/seminars/conferences accompanied by a fieldtrip in duration of two days, and also provide an environment for engaging in a peer-to-peer discussion on the participants’ research and design projects. The meetings are organized by various types of institutions, which submit their declaration of interest for hosting an event based on the call’s theme, in close collaboration with at least one group member.

The members of the group would like to extend their sincerest thanks to institutions and colleagues that have hosted the group’s events so far: Istituto di Richerche sulle Attivià Terciarie, National Research Council, Italy; Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, Department for Spatial Planning, Faculty for Architecture and Planning, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Human Cities Symposium Organizers, Faculté d’Architecture La Cambre Horta and ProMateria, Brussels, Belgium; Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.

For questions concerning the organization of the meetings please e-mail to: psucnetwork@gmail.com

Call for Interest: Becoming Local

11 May 2013Posted by Ceren Sezer

 

‘BECOMING LOCAL’ – CALL FOR INTEREST
The Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)

The Thematic Group ‘Public Spaces and Urban Cultures’ (TG PS-UC) / May 2013

The AESOP Thematic Group for Public Spaces and Urban Cultures hereby opens a call to different partner institutions, in Europe and beyond, to host the group’s future meetings in the years 2013 to 2015. After having dealt with the subject of “Conviviality” during the group’s meetings in Vienna, Ljubljana, Naples, Brussels and Lisbon, which took place in the period between 2010 and 2012, the new topic BECOMING LOCAL has been initially developed during the group’s meeting in Lisbon in December 2012. This umbrella topic complements the group’s preceding approaches and activities aimed at critically reflecting, analysing and discussing current trends and tendencies pertaining to public spaces and urban cultures in the field of urban research, design and planning. If you are interested in hosting an upcoming group meeting, please contact us at psucnetwork@gmail.com until 21st June 2013.

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Call for Paper: Ambivalent Landscapes

13 September 2012Posted by Ceren Sezer

 

AMBIVALENT LANDSCAPES, Sorting out the present by designing the future

Public Spaces & Urban Cultures Conference

Lisbon, 6th -7th December 2012

Ambivalence stands for the simultaneously contradictory and opposing perception of a given phenomenon, which despite disorienting in its manifestations, may be regarded as a condition from which to build renewed frameworks of analysis and criticism.

Recent trends in spatial, social and cultural processes show a growing sense of this ambivalence – in the coexisting patterns of spatial polarization and shrinkage, in the informal public spaces patched under recombining networks of individual and collective exchange, in the increasingly difficult access to social and physical infrastructures that (used to) support modern cities. These are the landscapes of a changing urban Europe. No longer confined to the City but ever more dependent on stronger spaces of citizenship.

Ambivalent landscapes are the common ground and the opportunity to address public space and urban culture in the face of an open and transdisciplinary perspective.

This is an invitation to scholars to participate with original papers on a multiple disciplinary basis – architecture and urbanism, social sciences and landscape, design and technology. Three trackswere designed to bringing together different approaches into a shared topic: Empty Cities, Collective spaces, Living infrastructures.

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Call for Paper: AESOP Annual Conference, Ankara 11-15 July 2012, Special Session for the thematic group 'Public Spaces and Urban Cultures'

31 July 2011Posted by Ceren Sezer

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE ASSOCIATION of EUROPEAN SCHOOLS of PLANNING, Ankara 2012

Annual Conference 11-15 July 2012 / Special Session AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures (Under Conference Track / 9: Heritage, Urban Cultures, Urban Design)

Working Theme: “Conviviality”
Abstract submission deadline: 15 January 2012

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Announcement: AESOP Thematic Group “Public Spaces and Urban Cultures”, Meeting with the coordinators of Human Cities Festival

26 May 2011Posted by Ceren Sezer

 

The AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures met to the coordinators of Human Cities Festival in a workshop in Ljubljana (Slovenia) to talk about the possible collaborations of these two working groups in the future. The workshops is organized and hosted by Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia.

For more information about the workshop please see our website:  http://publicspaces- urbancultures.wikispaces.com

 

 

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Announcement: AESOP Thematic Group “Public Spaces and Urban Cultures”, Annual Meeting 11/2011

11 May 2011Posted by Ceren Sezer

 

AESOP Thematic Group “Public Spaces and Urban Cultures”, Annual Meeting 11/2011

Local Coordinator: Gabriella Esposito De Vita, Thematic Group Coordinator: Nikolai Roskamm Hosting Institution: IRAT-CNR (National Research Council of Italy), Via Schipa 91, I-80122, Naples

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Invitation: The Thematic Group Launching Event, AESOP Helsinki Conference, Finland

1 July 2010Posted by Ceren Sezer

 

INVITATION THEMATIC GROUP LAUNCHING EVENT, AESOP HELSINKI CONFERENCE, FINLAND

Date: Thursday 8th July, 5.30-7pm.
Place: Track10_SCCRP-T10, Room 22.

The newly established AESOP thematic group on Public Spaces and Urban Cultures is inviting you to the launching event to be held during the AESOP Annual Conference in Helsinki, Finland, in June 2010. Public spaces as arenas of social interaction are one of the vital elements of city’s public life as they play a significant role to bring together different groups of people from different cultural backgrounds regardless to aspects of class, ethnic origin, gender and age. Public spaces, however, are under the pressure of globalization, privatization at the macrolevel and of city image and marketing strategies as well as other private sector inspired regeneration strategies at the microlevel. During the phase of postfordist transitions, especially cultural approaches within the planning community have characterized debates on how to deal with this manifest pressures on public spaces. With rising rhythms of development. the degree of conflicts and fragmentation in public spaces – taken from a descriptive perspective – is changing. From a normative perspective, the role of public spaces as places for integration and democracy is, therefore, challenged and contested.

Everybody welcome
Please feel warmly invited to join us!

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Call for Paper: Public Space and The Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe: Politics and Culture

30 June 2010Posted by Ceren Sezer

 

PUBLIC SPACE and THE CHALLANGES of URBAN TRANSFORNATION in EUROPE: POLITICS and CULTURE

European Conference, 10th and 11th November 2010, Vienna, Austria

CALL for Paper:

Dear Sir or Madam,

the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (http.//skuor.tuwien.ac.at) at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Vienna University of Technology invites academics as well as practitioners coming from various disciplinary fields to take part in the following call for conference contributions:

PUBLIC SPACE AND THE CHALLENGES OF URBAN TRANSFORMATION IN EUROPE: POLITICS AND CULTURE / European Conference, 10th and 11th November 2010, Vienna, Austria

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