CALL FOR PAPERS * * * Cardiff International Conference on Sustainable Place Making, 29 - 30 October 2012
5/11/2012 1:26:42 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS
CARDIFF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE PLACE-MAKING
DATE: 29th/30th October 2012
VENUE: Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University
Coping with the adaptive changes necessary as a result of climate change and resource depletion becomes one of the main challenges facing the world in the second decade of the 21st century. Sustainability science has grown rapidly as an engaging interdisciplinary field in which to scientifically address these issues.
This conference wishes to focus on the problem of sustainable place- making; that is how integrated thinking can be developed and applied in different places and spaces so as to adapt systems of production and consumption and bring about transformative change. The conference wishes to bring together leading scholars and active researchers around the theme of sustainable place making, providing a platform for critical debate and progress about the theoretical/conceptual and practice and policy implications of adopting place-making approaches.
Within the themes below, papers are invited which address:
(i) Areas of theoretical and conceptual progress in understanding the comparative complexities of place-based adaptive change;
(ii) Methodological advances in understanding and assessing integrated place-based solutions at different spatial scales;
(iii) The implications for innovations in policy and practice and for adaptive governance frameworks. Themes
1) Sustainable and connected communities
2) Ecosystems and ecosystem services
3) Implications of mobilities, flows and migrations for the creation of sustainable places
4) Re-placing risk governance: alternative ways of governing places
Abstract proposals for papers or posters should be submitted by 31st July 2012 to: sustainableplaces@cardiff.ac.uk Abstracts should be up to 250 words and indicate your name, contact email address, your Institution (if applicable) and which theme you would like to be considered for.
Social and Environmental Dimensions of Sustainable Development - Call for Papers
5/11/2012 1:22:44 PM
Call for Papers
My PhD 2012"Social and Environmental Dimensions of Sustainable Development: Alternative Models in Central and Eastern Europe"
European Parliament, Brussels October 15-17, 2012
This is a call for papers for the 6th PhD Students´ International Conference organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in co-operation with the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and Proforum under the auspices of Ms. Brigita Schmögnerová, former Minister of Finance of Slovakia and the President of Proforum.
The financial support for the project is covered by FES and ETUI. ETUI is financially supported by the European Union.
Partner:
Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialist & Democrats
Objectives of the Conference
24 authors of the best papers from different research areas dealing with post-Communist trends in Central and Eastern Europe selected by the jury will have an opportunity to present and discuss their papers in 8 panels under the supervision of 8 distinguished Senior Academics. The main goals of the Conference are:
-encouragement of an inter-disciplinary dialogue among young scientists in Central and Eastern Europe;
-encouragement of discussions focused on public interest in different research areas at the level of the EU and national policies;
- promoting mobility and productive confrontation of PhD students from countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Western Europe;
- establishing an effective knowledge-based network;
- publishing a collection of all contributions in electronic form;
-publishing the best papers selected by Senior Academics in printed form;
-organising of dinner/lunch speeches given by selected MEP´s within the course of the conference;
-organising of the meeting devoted to future follow up activities with the representatives of European Commission, European Parliament and European Trade Union Instituteduring the conference;
Target Group
PhD students specialized in anthropology, cultural studies, economics, ethnology, history, law and media studies, philosophy, political sciences, social geography and sociology.
Practical Traineeship and Publishing of the Best Papers
We are delighted to inform you that the selected conference papers dealing with the matters of Central and Eastern Europe can be published in the special issues of Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe and EMECON - based on authors' prior permission .
ETUI strongly encourages the participants to apply for a three-month traineeship in the Institute focused on labour environment issues from the European perspective.
Conference language:
English
Important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: June 11, 2012
Author notification: June 30, 2012
Paper submission: September 15, 2012
Application must include: application form, CV, an abstract of the paper to be presented at the conference, max. 300 words.
Accommodation, food and travel expenses: will be covered by organizers
Call for papers "Political gardening and city planning"
5/2/2012 3:10:32 PM
Call for papers “Political gardening and city planning”
Summary
This is a call for papers for a special issue of a journal on political urban gardening and city planning to be proposed for publication to Environment and Planning A or Urban Studies.
We are interested in bringing together high level contributions focusing on citizens’ engagement in the care or re-invention of public space, and on the use of critical urban gardening as a means of political expression (addressing issues such as the privatization of public space, redistributive policies addressing spatial inequalities, environmental problems, food security and safety…
Our proposal is aimed at providing policy planners, researchers and citizens with a comprehensive overview on the fast-growing, varied and challenging urban gardening movement, its claims and its innovative proposals. The collected articles would have either a theoretical or a policy focus, and the special issue would have an international and multidisciplinary perspective.
Project description
In the last decade, a large number of grassroots gardening groups with a political stance have emerged in the cities of the global north. Urban harvesters, guerrilla gardeners, community growers, landsharers are among the actors in a wide range of initiatives which have mushroomed, participated in and initiated by groups that cut across age and class categories. They are reinvigorating the meaning of cities as laboratories for political experiments. From marginal and neglected urban spaces at the city periphery, to urban greens and parks in well maintained city centres, public space gardening is emerging in different urban settings, assuming different forms and expressing a range of political meanings that is worth exploring. While they all help to reinvigorate global environmental consciousness, the range of claims expressed in the micro-politics of garden activism is quite diversified: DIY landscaping and engaged ecology, digging for anarchy (self-sufficiency for escaping capitalists transactions), promoting community empowerment and food sovereignty, proposing new forms of environmental planning, achieving environmental justice, etc..
Political gardening addresses some of the most striking contemporary social issues, such as the role of urban grassroots movements, the links between space and politics, the post-modern fragmentation of the individual self and the reconstruction of an innovative collective identity. Not to mention the overcoming of a discourse-based political activity in favour of a more practice-oriented one. It articulates urban politics in terms of inequality, division, exclusion, contestation, resistance and inclusion, and regards place as a fluid space of complex power-geometries and thus, by ‘spatialising’ the grand narrative of globalisation, allows plural and radical openness and a creative kind of politics.
While there is a tendency to particularly focus on the progressive element of these stances, we also expect to find conservative oriented inward looking communities, gardening public land in the name of the “big society”. We are interested in papers which investigate political gardening within the wider political spectrum.
This work is aimed at theoretically exploring a number of problems raised by political gardening and the relevance these initiatives have for planning policies and practice. A first crucial issue political gardening addresses is the shrinking availability of non-commodified space (especially green space) in the late-modern cities, which corresponds to the very possibility for people to have at their disposal a sufficiently large, healthy, decent, non-degraded and non-polluted space for personal and social enjoyment. This relates to the possibility for public gardens to increase solidarity, reduce crime, and produce relevant changes in community confidence and cohesion together with making ordinary places pleasant, engaging and vibrant. As a consequence, people may experience a new sense of belonging to the community they engage with (sometimes at the border of the existing rules and sometimes by intentionally breaking them), and may feel empowered to intervene on the material arrangement of the urban public space (specifically, cities streets, plot, squares, bed flowers…).
We particularly welcome contributions which look at how these initiatives challenge or create a dialogue with existing city planning practice and at their effects on urban policy agendas.
Useful references
A number of texts (and their analytical limits) has helped framing our questions. Our intention is that this special issue will continue what has been initiated by these contributions and we recommend that prospective authors are familiar with them:
McKay George (2011), Radical gardening, Frances Lincoln Limited: London
O’Brien Dan (ed.) (2010), Gardening. Philosophy for everyone, Wyley-Blackwell
Hinchliffe Stephen and Whatmore, Sarah (2006), “Living cities: towards a politics of conviviality”, Special 'Technonatures' issue of Science as Culture, 15(3): 123-138
Hou J. et.al (2009), Greening cities, growing communities. Learning from Seattle’s urban community gardens, Seattle & London: University of Washington Press
Hou Jeffrey (ed.) (2010), Insurgent public space. Guerrilla Urbanism and the remaking of contemporary cities, London: Routledge
Richardson Tim and Kingsbury Noel (eds) (2005), Vista. The culture and politics of gardens, Frances Lincoln: London
Pinkerton Tamzin, Hopkins Rob (2009), Local Food. How to make it happen in your community, Transition Books
Reynolds Richard (2008), On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening without Boundaries, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Tracey David (2007), Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto New Society Publishers
Disciplinary and geographical approaches The proposed collection is intended to privilege a transdiciplinary approach and encourage the adoption of varied methodology for social and urban research.
We are interested in analytical approaches to radical/political gardening which go beyond academic disciplines and /or which bridge academic and non-academic perspectives (hence transdiscplinary). The purpose of the work is also to overcome the classic participatory research and planning methods by effectively learn from practitioners experience in the exploration of new possibility in the arrangement of city space. We welcome contributions from activists, action researchers and third sector organisations.
From the geographic point of view, while our interest is mainly focussed on cities of the global north, we aim at broadening a view on political gardening which is –at least in terms of literature- mostly represented by anglo-american case
Submission format and Deadlines
To express your interest please send an abstract of at least 800 words to c.tornaghi@leeds.ac.uk and
Late Admission PhD opportunity at the University of Maryland
5/2/2012 3:06:16 PM
Graduate Assistantship
Travel Forecasting
National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education
University of Maryland College Park
Position Summary/Purpose of Position: The University of Maryland, College Park, Urban and Regional Planning and Design Ph.D. Program, has a graduate assistantship available for a Ph.D. student with focus on transportation. The position is offered through the National Center for Smart Growth (NCSG) of the University of Maryland. The position requires a background in travel forecasting and experience with the CUBE software package. The use of CUBE should be in either a research or application environment.
Primary Responsibility: Primary responsibilities will include running the Maryland Statewide Transportation Model(MSTM), participating in development of improvements to the MSTM and testing alternative future scenarios using the MSTM. The selected applicant will not only expand travel forecasting and freight analysis skills but also integrate travel and freight forecasting applications with procedures from other disciplines. Duties may also include integrating travel forecasting with fields such as economics, policy analysis and land use planning. Depending on topic selection, the work with the MSTM may be used in preparation of the Doctoral Thesis.
Compensation: Compensation includes a stipend, tuition remission for three graduate level courses per semester and health insurance.
Application Deadline: June 15, 2012. Submit your application to the University of Maryland Ph.D. Program at www.gradschool.umd.edu/application. In addition, please send a resume to Anne Petrone apetrone@umd.edu
Minimum Requirements : Applicants must be admitted to the Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland.
Experience: In addition to being admitted to the Ph.D program, applicants must have a background in travel modeling and travel forecasting. Experience may be through academic usage or through applications. The use of CUBE in travel modeling is a mandatory requirement.
About us: The National Center for Smart Growth has an innovative multidisciplinary working environment, with staff expertise in the areas of travel forecasting, land use planning, land use forecasting and economics. The NCSG is affiliated with the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Clark School of Engineering, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. Further information can be found at http://www.smartgrowth.umd.edu/
Closing Date: Applications to the Ph.D. program must be submitted by June 15. For questions: Please contact Ann Petrone, Coordinator of the National Center for Smart Growth (apetrone@umd.edu). For more information on the National Center for Smart Growth, please visit: http://www.smartgrowth.umd.edu/
Request from European Institute for Gender Equality: Nominations of "Women Inspiring Europe" Calendar 2013
4/20/2012 2:41:37 PM
Dear all,
On 8 March 2012, EIGE launches a new call for nominations to the Women of Europe resource pool and EIGE’s "Women Inspiring Europe" Calendar 2013.
In 2010 on 8 March, the Institute started collecting nominations for the Women of Europe resource pool which is used to highlight women’s achievements and success stories. Inspiring experiences and stories of women from this pool are published on EIGE’s website weekly (http://www.eige.europa.eu/content/women-inspiring-europe).
Selected women who display outstanding experiences and achievements are chosen to be portrayed in EIGE’s annual “Women Inspiring Europe” calendar.
For each nominee a short biography and a photo should be sent to EIGE. Preferably, a written agreement should accompany the nomination, allowing EIGE use of their data in the event it should need to be made public (e.g. on EIGE’s website, in social media or in EIGE’s Calendar 2013).
We look forward to your nominations before the deadline 1 June 2012! For further enquiries, please contact:
Barbara Wurster,
Team leader, Resource and Documentation Centre
European Institute for Gender Equality,
Email: womenofeurope@eige.europe.eu
Marie Curie Individual Fellowships - calls for proposals
4/10/2012 12:13:22 PM
Title
Marie Curie Individual Fellowships - Calls for Proposals
Deadline
16 August 2012
Details
The European Commission has launched calls for proposals for Marie Curie Individual Fellowships, which support the training and career development of researchers. Marie Curie Individual Fellowships are aimed at experienced researchers with more than four years’ research experience and/or a PhD and cover all areas of research, including the socio-economic sciences and humanities. The researcher and the host institution jointly submit a proposal for a research project on a topic of their choice.
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development (IEF)- aimed at researchers, of any nationality, who have been research active in a European country and will enable them to move to a host organisation in a different European country for a period of 1-2 years.
Incoming International Fellowships (IIF)- aimed at researchers (typically more senior) of any nationality, who have been research active in a third country (i.e. outside Europe). The researcher must move from a third country to a host institution in Europe for a period of 1-2 years.
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development (IOF)- Aimed at researchers who are European nationals or have resided in Europe for at least 5 years prior to the deadline. Enables them to work in a research organisation in a third country (i.e. outside Europe) for a period of 1-2 years with a mandatory return phase of one year in Europe.
Houston University Certificate in Strategic Foresight - Brussels - 28.05/01.06.2012
1/16/2012 11:51:27 AM
Certificate in Strategic Foresight
Overview
The Strategic Foresight program is offered as a 5-day, project-based, face-to-face workshop.
Participants learn to anticipate disruptive change and work towards the creation of transformational change, in order to influence the future of their organizations, companies and communities.
Participants will receive 4 CEUs for attending, and can obtain the certificate if they complete a project within a given number of weeks after the program delivery.
Providing professionals with tools to help navigate today’s constantly changing business environment and create a positive future for their communities, regions, enterprises and themselves.
€ 1930, if registered before February, 15th
€ 2125, if registered between February, 15th and April, 15th
€ 2320, if registered between April 15th and May 25th, or walk-in registration
Participants are responsible for their hotel reservations and transportation. The Métropole Hotel will reserve a number of rooms at a special price if reservations are made a month before the event.
The Department for Spatial and Sustainable Design, Vienna University of Technology organizes together with the Society of Architecture and Spatial Design biannually the BLUE AWARD, an international student competition for sustainable architecture.
The competition is open to university students of Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree programs, as well as students working on a diploma thesis or dissertation, in the academic fields of architecture, urbanism or regional planning. The submitted project must be part of a supervised coursework, having taken place during one of the following semesters: Summer Semester 2010, Winter Semester 2010/11, Summer Semester 2011 and Winter Semester 2011/12. The competition awards projects addressing the topic of sustainability.
The economical, cultural and social dimensions of sustainable development should be equal in significance to the classical problems of technique and function.
The Blue Award 2012 will be handed out in three categories.
Category 1 - Urban Development and Transformation, Landscape Development
Category 2 - Ecological Building
Category 3 - Building in Existing Structures
The British architect Sir Michael Hopkins will be Honorary President of the jury.
Awards Ceremony and Exhibition Opening will take place on April 26, 2012 at the TU Vienna.
Catalog: the prize winners will be published.
Regions and cities are increasingly interdependent; economically, socially and environmentally. They are, for example, becoming more reliant on interregional flows of trade, labour and resources.Patterns of interactions between regionsare experiencing rapid changes as a result ofdramatic shifts in production and consumption patterns, advances in communication technologies and the development of transport infrastructure. These changes pose many challenges for the analysis and management of regions. They are also leading tonew patterns of activities and relationships and new forms of clustering and networking between regions. At the same time,regions are becoming increasingly fragmentedin many ways; economically, socially, environmentally and also politically. Classic forms of government based on clear cut arrangements between administrative levels, policy sectors and the public and private domain are no longer sufficient. The governance of regions faces multi-level, multi-actor and multi-sectoral challenges.New spatial interactions at new scales demand new approaches for consultation and coordination. More flexible (‘softer’) forms of governance are beginning to emerge which seek to work around traditional governmental arrangements. The result is a complex pattern of overlapping governance and fuzzy boundaries, not just in a territorial sense but also in terms of the role of both public and private actors. These new arrangements pose many as yetunresolved dilemmas concerning the transparency, accountability and legitimacy of decision-making. The 2012 RSA conference in Delft provides a timely opportunity for participants to come together and reflect on the various strengths, weaknesses, challenges and opportunities of networked cities and regions within these different contexts of fragmentation.
Papers that consider these issues in relation to the development of smart, sustainable and inclusive places (the three dimensions of the Europe 2020 Strategy) are particularly encouraged.
Deadline for Abstract submission:
10th February 2012
Gateway Themes
A. EU Regional policy and practice
B. Climate change, energy and sustainability
C. Migration, housing and labour markets
D. Social and environmental justice and inclusive places
E. Rural and peripheral challenges
F. Territorial cohesion and cooperation
G. City-regions, networks and urban systems
H. Spatial analysis and regional economies
I. Borders, border regions and cross-border learning
J. Industries, entrepreneurship, and regional competitiveness
K. Innovation and knowledge economies
L. Creativity, identities and branding
M. Territorial governance: planning policy and practice
N. Infrastructure and development
O. Local and regional economic development
Organisers welcome proposals for special sessions, themed workshops and innovative forms of networking and collaboration. If you would like to organise or offer a session to the conference please contact: Elizabeth Mitchell at events@regionalstudies.org and we will assist you.
European Module in Spatial Development Planning - 2012
10/8/2011 7:19:38 PM
The European Module on Spatial Development Planning is an intensive post-graduate programme offered at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven to students, researchers and practitioners who share a planning philosophy oriented to serve progress in society. The Module adopts a pluralist approach, both in analytical focus and planning methodology, but is strongly anchored to principles of equity and sustainability. It is open to Doctoral students, Master students (II level Master), Post-doctoral fellows, Researchers, Professionals and/or Civil servants working in the field of urban and regional studies and planning. The programme provides structured teaching, a series of self-standing seminars, and personalised tutoring on ongoing research. It has a duration of three months (from the beginning of March to the end of May) and presupposes residency in order to ensure the required intensive attendance. It is a unique opportunity to deepen or refresh the participants’ academic and empirical knowledge and to enhance their ongoing research.
AESOP 2011 Prize for Excellence in Teaching to the EMSDP
7/15/2011 6:24:00 PM
Dear All,
We are very happy to announce that the 2011 edition of the European Module in Spatial Development Planning -- the 3-month doctoral teaching and research programme coordinated by Frank Moulaert and Flavia Martinelli, with the invaluable support of Loris Servillo, at K.U. Leuven, and involving many partners from the network -- has won the AESOP 2011 prize for excellence in teaching (ex aequo with a studio class on settlements at the University of Manchester). You can read the jury considerations by clicking on this link
The Module has come a long way, since its beginning in Lille in the early 1990s, via Newcastle in the years 2005-010. It is a truly collective construction, characterised by our shared integrated approach and ethical committment. We are, therefore, very proud that this has been internationally recognised.
A special ‘thank you’ goes to Loris for proposing to apply and for endeavouring to write the application.
And let's continue and further improve our collective adventure.
The selections of the students are almost over in all the partner-universities. At the moment we have got around 47 students coming to Stockholm. At KTH the selection procedure is about to finish.
All together we expect to have around 60 participants.
Right now we at KTH are working on schedule for the IP and different practical issues.
More information will be provided soon.
At the moment there is an update regarding teaching staff 2011, you can check it under the respective section.
Intensive Programme (IP) on Spatial Development Planning in Stockholm 2011
12/6/2010 4:07:11 PM
We are glad to inform that selection of participants for the Intensive Programme (IP) on Spatial Development Planning has been already started in some of the ESDP partner-universities.
The program will take place in Stockholm, 26 April - 7 May 2011.
For more information about the IP please visit the respective section
The European Spatial Development Planning network invites students from its member institutions to the Intensive Programme (IP) on Spatial Development Planning, 26 April - 7 May 2011 in Stockholm. The IP offers an excellent opportunity to study and discuss contemporary planning practice in an European context.
Additional information you can find under "Intensive Programme" section.
Serena Vicari Haddock is Associate Professor of Urban Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milan-Bicocca. Her primary research interest is urban development, regeneration initiatives and social innovation in Italian cities and in comparative perspective. Her most recent book is Rigenerare la città. Pratiche di innovazione sociale nelle città europee (co-edited with F. Moulaert), Bologna: il Mulino 2009.
The aim of this book is to contribute to a critical assessment of the literature on the creative city and to a clarification of some of the many questions that remain unanswered. It is a collection of essays which, in the first part, addresses concepts and theories of urban development, city marketing and branding, presented as a framework in which the discourse of the creative city is embedded. In the second part, four case studies of cities considered to be emblematic of cultural industries (Manchester, Berlin, Dublin, and a comparative study of Milan and London) serve to illustrate the social production of creativity in specific urban contexts.
Edizione Elettronica
ISBN: 978-88-8453-540-5
A pagamento / by payment
€ 11.13 Url accesso
You can read about the history of the ESDP-network in the testimony "Para Erasmus" written by Prof. Flavia Martinelli (available under section ESDP network / Aims and Objectives)
hope you are doing fine at home and are ready for nice and warm summer!
I guess you all wonder about your grades and with respect to this I'd like to inform you that grading was recently finalized by our teaching stuff.
We intend to send you your transcripts and certificates until the end of next week.
From 2011 the European Module will be hosted by the Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning (ASRO) at KU Leuven. More information will be posted soon.
The European Spatial Development Planning network invites students from its member institutions to the Intensive Programme (IP) on Spatial Development Planning, 06 -17 April 2010 in Stockholm. The IP offers an excellent opportunity to study and discuss contemporary planning practice in an European context
Additional information you can find under "Intensive Programme" section
