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    PSUC 2018 - AESOP Thematic Group for Public Spaces and Urban Cultures Series UNSTABLE GEOGRAPHIES – DISLOCATED PUBLICS

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    Website http://cyprusconferences.org/psuc2018/ | Want to Edit it Edit Freely

    Category Public Spaces;Architecture

    Deadline: December 05, 2017 | Date: May 16, 2018-May 18, 2018

    Venue/Country: Ledra Palace, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Updated: 2017-12-01 19:54:56 (GMT+9)

    Call For Papers - CFP

    THE URBANIZATION of (IN)JUSTICE: Public spaces in uncertain geographies

    The University of Cyprus, Department of Architecture invites you to the annual meeting of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)’s Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures, which will take place in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Nicosia in the period between 16th and 18th May 2018. This meeting is organized in parallel to the Cyprus Network of Urban Morphology conference, “Urban Morphology in South-Eastern Mediterranean Cities: chal-lenges and opportunities”. The purpose of this meeting is to unfold, discuss, rethink and chal-lenge prevailing discourses about “just” or “unjust” processes of urban transformation from the perspective of public space. We look forward to a critical and constructive debate on the re-search, policy and public agendas about this issue to contribute to the academic and public dis-cussions on the role of public space to achieve “just” cities.

    Theme. Over the past few decades, cities around the world have become radically and rapidly changed in the sense of scale, scope and complexity. This is mainly due to the increasing mobility of people, goods and information as a result of technological developments, liberalization of economic systems, economic fluctuations, wars, and climate change. These changes challenge the processes of production of built environment and create conflicts and contestations between different urban groups, who have contradicted claims on the decisions and processes influencing urban transformation.

    Such situation brought the discussions on just/unjust urban transformation processes in urban research, policy and public debates. It raised questions on privileging the interests of affluent urban groups, while disadvantaging vulnerable communities. We see public space as central in these debates, as possible facilitator of a more just process of urban transformation Public space is able to embrace different political, economic and cultural manifestations of urban groups, which allow them to voice their rights on the city. Public space can also submit encounters and interactions between different urban actors and perform as a place of negotiation between them. Public space is potentially able to promote fair allocations of wealth, resources, benefits and opportunities.

    Different views on public space can provide us ways of thinking to develop planning and design strategies, policy measures, civil initiatives, and social movements to oppose processes of unjust urban transformation. Yet, in the context of a rapid-shifting economic, political and social reality, it is more and more urgent for critical re-thinking of public space as facilitator of urban justice.

    The aim of this conference is to share international and interdisciplinary perspectives of public space as a facilitator of (in)just urban transformation processes from various angles based on practical and/or theoretical work. We particularly welcome topics such as:

    Public space in relation to urban just and unjust conditions, today and through time

    Public space and equity, public space and diversity, public space, identity, spatiality and power

    Re-thinking public space through the connections between notions of justice, social rela-tions, and spatial form

    Responses to unjust urban patterns in form of emerging practices of self-organization and negotiations of difference in cities’ public spaces

    Role of actors in the production of public space.

    Everyday practices of establishing spatial justice and injustice

    Creation of subjectivities in or with public space

    Politics of public space

    The meeting will be dedicated to the presentations, discussions and roundtables of high quality work of scholars and practitioners. We are interested in contributions from urban studies, urban planning, urban design, architecture, social geography, anthropology, sociology, ethnography, cultural studies, political science, history and others. Paper presentations will be followed by roundtable discussions to consolidate the ideas, concerns and recommendations presented during the meeting, and set the basis for further practical and theoretical explorations.

    Format:

    The meeting will combine various formats of exchange including the keynote speeches of CyNUM and PSUC, presentations from the contributions to the call for papers, field visits on the second day and a workshop on the third day. The workshop participants will have the oppor-tunity to visit locations within Nicosia in collaboration with local stakeholders and practitioners, to reflect on the case studies visited and to discuss, exchange views and propose ideas with the purpose of sharing resources and producing knowledge on contemporary public space concerns.

    ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:

    Abstracts of paper proposals (300 words) should address at least one of the topics outlined in the call for papers (Please check the guidelines for the abstract at the conference website. Speakers should also submit a short biography (100 words). Submissions will ONLY be accepted online through www.easyacademia.org, where participants may register and instantly submit their abstracts using the provided template.

    Authors will be notified of acceptance by the Conference Committee. Final acceptance will be based upon review of the full-length short paper. Full papers will be published in an electronic version in a form of a conference book of papers. The authors of the selected papers will be en-couraged to prepare their contributions in the form of scientific articles for the publication in the thematic issue of a scientific journal.


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