The Chair of International Urbanism will take part in the 16th IFoU International Conference.
Urbanism of Hope: Reframing the Local and Global Relationships will be jointly held by six member institutions (EPFL, FADU, NTU, TU Delft, University of Auckland and CUHK). It takes a new hybrid format of global relay – each institution will take turns to host a session throughout two days, and each session will include both online and on-site components to engage a broad range of audiences.
TOPIC
In the midst of a structural crisis worldwide that is characterized by natural disasters, growing social and economic tensions as well as increasing political, even military conflicts the 16th conference of IFoU will focus on attempts, approaches and solutions on local level: To what extent initiatives on local level are able to combat or to reduce the impact of environmental disasters, to improve local resiliency, to stimulate the local economy and social integration, to bridge political contradictions and to overcome fragmentation, segregation and separation. In this framework planning approaches and design concepts will be discussed under the following 5 themes and related experiences from local governments, NGO’s, local resident movements, and initiatives for the local economy.
1 Connectivity and Accessibility
in the Age of Mediated Relational Mobility
Host: Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Auckland
2 Governmentality and Local Participation
Host: National Taiwan University
3 Local Resiliency. Crisis and Catastrophes as Laboratories of
Local / Global Innovation, Adaption and Socio-Ecological Change
Host: EPFL Lausanne
4 Spaces for Local Economy
Host: Delft University of Technology
5 Spaces of Integration – Living Together
Host: University of Buenos Aires
For more information please contact:
https://ifou2024.global/
Contributions from our Chair will include reports on two current research projects:
WiSER / Well-being in a Sustainable Economy Revisited
Prof. Dr. Astrid Ley, Dr. Sigrid Busch, and M.Sc. Shaharin Annisa
The Connectivity of the Economy of Informal Areas with the Larger City: A Spatial and Functional Analysis in the Greater Cairo Region
PhD thesis of Mohammed Ahmed Alfiky
ORGANISATION
Conference Date
12 to 14 December 2024
Registration & Fees
The conference registration system is now open:
https://ifou2024.global/call-for-papers/
Early bird registration (by 31 October 2024): € 150,00
Regular registration (by 15 November 2024): € 200,00
Students: € 80 and € 100 respectively
Colleagues interested in attending the conference without presenting a paper are warmly invited to register by 30 November 2024.
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