15 November 2012 – 17 November 2012
CITIES TO BE TAMED? Standards and alternatives in the transformation of the urban South International Conference (CALL FOR PAPERS CLOSED)
Milan, Italy
DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: 15.06.2012
promoted by:
Spazicontesi | Contestedspaces
with the support of:
DiAP Department of Architecture and Planning, Politecnico di Milano
in collaboration with:
Laboratory of International Cooperation (DiAP)
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The aim of the international conference is simultaneously exploring and questioning the role played by urban planning, design, and policies in the continuous urbanisation processes affecting the so-called ‘global South’. The Conference aims to explore the difference between ‘standard’ and ‘alternative’ strategies of transformation – especially investigating the relationships between the visions of policy-making, and the transformative agency of everyday urbanity.
As such, the Conference targets urban researchers coming from the backgrounds of planning and urbanism, architecture, design theory, and geography – and welcomes both theoretical reflections and academic perspectives, and case- study related practices and insights.
The main themes of the conference are:
1. Designing the informal city/the informal design of the city
2. Stereotypical visions/eduring realities
3. The power of planning/empowering by planning
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Paper proposals are now being accepted. The official language for the Conference is English. Paper proposals intended for presentation within the Conference should be e-mailed to:
conference@contestedspaces.info
no later than June 15, 2012.
For more informations please see the download file on the right
CURATORS
Spazicontesi | Contestedspaces
Francesco Chiodelli, Beatrice De Carli, Maddalena Falletti, Lina Scavuzzo
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
• Alessandro Balducci, Politecnico di Milano
• Camillo Boano, University College of London
• Bruno De Meulder, University of Leuven
• Jorge Fiori, A.A. School of Architecture
• Nabeel Hamdi, Oxford Brookes University
• Agostino Petrillo, Politecnico di Milano
• Antonio Tosi, Politecnico di Milano
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
• Bruno De Meulder, University of Leuven, Belgium
• Jorge Fiori, AA School of Architecture, UK
• Nabeel Hamdi, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Further Keynote Speakers will be announced upon confirmation
IMPORTANT DATES
Call for Papers Lunch:
• 1 March 2012
Abstract Submission Deadline:
• 15 June 2012
Notification of Acceptance of Papers:
• 15 July 2012
Deadline for Authors' Registration:
• 1 Semptember 2012
Deadline for Audience' Registration:
• 15 October 2012
Deadline for Submission of Full Papers:
• 15 October 2012
Conference Sessions:
• 15 - 17 November 2012