Defrag-Europe: fragility/antifragility at play in contemporary Europe
June 16 — 18, 2022
Milan, Italy
Host and organisation by Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies
The Conference
The 2022 EURA Conference promotes critical reflection on various processes of fragilization, which imposes distress on places and people, particularly in Europe, evidently tightly related to the global transition that the world is experiencing. The event invites scholars to dare challenge mainstream concepts and approaches, promoting transdisciplinary research and contributing to feeding a new policy agenda based on anti-fragility policies.
The annual European Urban Research Association (EURA) conference is an important meeting point for researchers and scholars from various disciplines in urban studies. EURA aims to gather researchers committed to international exchange, cooperation, and interdisciplinary and comparative urban research. By doing so, EURA encourages and contributes to urban policy debates and regional development.
After two complicated years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the EURA Conference 2022 will provide a unique opportunity for this community of scholars to enjoy the pleasure of exchange and critical discussion. They will also encounter an important Italian city, Milan, which represents some of the societal challenges tackled during this conference.
Covid 19 pandemic has exacerbated the role of uncertainty and risk in our societies, accelerating dynamics that were already at play before the pandemic. At the same time, the post-pandemic recovery plans offer essential opportunities to renew the policy agenda and deal with urgent policy challenges. Of course, talking about Europe implies comparing it with other regions and contexts worldwide. We invite scholars from all countries to contribute to a lively and dynamic discussion.
EURA 2022 Conference in Milan will be an in-person event, based on intensive track sessions and supported by side events and study trips, to provide the pleasure and the benefits of a face-to-face exchange once again.
However, the local organizing committee is also considering an alternative plan if the situation requires different arrangements. Our infrastructures and facilities at Politecnico di Milano will eventually be ready to run a blended event or an online one, if the case.
The schedule of this conference is relatively compressed concerning the past, due to the exceptional situation. Still, we are confident in your understanding: organizing a conference in the current era is a real challenge.
The EURA 2022 local organizing committee hopes you will find this call for panels and abstracts of interest. Please disseminate the call to relevant colleagues in your networks, universities, institutes, departments, research groups, consortia, etc.
Call for panels and abstracts
EURA 2022 welcomes scholars in the field of urban studies to contribute with panels and abstracts to the following 11 tracks. Topics addressed in the tracks are not exclusive; they intend to inspire discussions and exchanges of innovative ideas and knowledge. Please feel free to suggest issues and perspectives that can dialogue with this call for abstracts. The call is also open to the proposal for special sessions (panels) within each track.
Book of abstracts (PDF, 2Mb)01
Marginalized territories of Europe
Track 01
Marginalized territories of Europe
Francesco Curci, Agim Kerkucu + Ignazio Vinci
The Track proposes to explore the emerging geographies and processes of marginalization and fragilization within the European space. The track is open to contributions dedicated to rural and inner areas, but also to in-between urbanized areas, midsize cities and deindustrialized regions that face new (and unexpected) processes of marginalization and fragilization after decades of demographic and economic growth or stability. Particular attention is addressed to the themes of depopulation, under-use, and abandonment of the built stock, but also economic and cultural impoverishment and the reduction in the supply of essential public services.
The contributions will address the following questions:
- How to provide updated representations of processes of marginalization and fragilization occurring all over Europe?
- What new and old demographic, economic, spatial, environmental, social, and political conditions generate processes of marginalization and fragilization?
- How to redesign spatial policies able to cope with processes of marginalization/fragilization underway today in the European context?
- What can be the role of marginalized territories within the future global and European scenarios?
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Mobilities, accessibility and proximity
Track 02
Mobilities, accessibility and proximity
Paola Pucci, Bruna Vendemmia, Giovanni Lanza + Susanne Søholt
Mobility is an essential condition to participate in social life because by moving we can access the places where valued opportunities are available. Providing access to such opportunities may support social inclusion since it increases the possibilities for individuals to realize their own projects and personal aspirations. Therefore, reduced accessibility to opportunities, services and social networks may produce processes of territorial and social fragilization that assume different dimensions and characteristics according to socio-spatial conditions.
Nevertheless, the socially justified goal of providing a comprehensive accessibility should not always imply more and faster mobility and the use of the transport systems. Granting inclusive accessibility with more local resources and facilities at walking distance, less need for long-distance motorized mobility, caring for different accessibility needs is emerging in several urban agendas, associated with the transition to sustainable and fair urban mobility and supported also by the Covid 19 constraints.
The track questions the effectiveness of this emerging model in dealing with different forms of inequalities in the access to basic services and opportunities; in facing different socio-territorial conditions and mobility practices; and finally, in coping with the marginalization of some urban, periurban, rural territories that suffer from low accessibility level to the main activities of the economic, political, and social life of a community, up to the configuration of social exclusion.
The track aims at investigating these issues, thanks to case studies and theoretical contributions from the broad field of planning, mobilities studies, geography, sociology.
The contribution should address, but being not limited to, the following questions:
- In which way theoretical reflections about mobility, accessibility and proximity may help to address policy measures devoted to reducing inequalities in the access to urban opportunities?
- Enhancing accessibility through proximity vs. through mobility: is increased accessibility an unquestionable good?
- What are the conditions for ensuring accessibility by proximity in different territorial conditions (i.e. urban areas, peri-urban territories, low density areas)?
- What is the role of digital devices and technology in supporting fair, inclusive and sustainable mobilities?
- Which strategies and barriers in upscaling sustainable niche innovations in transport and mobility policy?
- How to define the basic services and opportunities that may help to redefine spatial and temporal accessibility thresholds?
- How does Covid-19 outbreak impact on the emergence of new needs and mobility practices? Should they be supported, and how can they be approached?
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Regenerating urbanity
Track 03
Regenerating urbanity
Antonella Bruzzese, Anna Moro + Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado
The track intends to investigate the different dimensions of urban regeneration processes in European cities and territories as possible responses to the contemporary urban settlements' fragilization. The main question concerns how the cities are (or are not) coping with the need to renew their material infrastructures and facilities and reactivate functions and services in front of the challenges posed by climate, environmental, social, and economic changes affecting Europe. Regenerating urbanity can assume multiple meanings depending on the territories we are dealing with (large cities, medium or small urban centers, urban sprawl) and on the places' historical, economic, and social features. Through critically illustrating cases, the session aims at reflecting upon the different regeneration forms (how to regenerate) and their content (what to regenerate). It will also discuss the idea of urbanity the urban regeneration conveys, the tools it uses and their possible innovation, the actors and governance network involved, the limits and risks that may arise with the expected or unexpected outcomes.
Contributors should therefore address the following questions:
- What does it mean to regenerate urbanity? What city models or ideas are behind the regeneration processes, and which kind of regeneration is needed to de-fragilize cities?
- What are the social, economic, territorial, urban conditions that allow regeneration processes?
- What kind of policies, tools, and projects are necessary to regenerate urbanity? And to which extent do they innovate established practices?
- Which are the actors' networks and forms of governance involved?
- How do these practices contribute to de-fragilizing cities and territories, and what limits and risks emerge?
- What innovative theoretical contributions, practical approaches and tools are emerging? Are they reframing and redefining urban regeneration?
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Institutions politics and policies between crisis and transitions
Track 04
Institutions politics and policies between crisis and transitions
Alessandro Coppola, Gloria Pessina + Alistair Jones
At a time of great uncertainties and generalising risks, the state is pushed to refashion its organisation while re-spatialising its action: disasters, climate events, epidemics imply a new ability of the state to both confront highly localized crises and to put in place reconstruction and recovery plans in specific territories. At the same time, the state is also engaged in designing and implementing transition initiatives - energy and resources projects, industrial innovation initiatives, etc. - that also imply exercises in multi-level governance and territorialization of its ways to plan and implement policies. Furthermore, these forms of state interventions often address the needs of territories that are included of emerging geographies of polarization and polarization changing the ways in which spatial equalization projects and policies are framed and implemented. The track aims at shedding light on these issues by sharing both case studies and theoretical contributions from the broad fields of planning, policy studies, geography, sociology.
Contributors should therefore address the following questions:
- How is state action being refashioned while addressing specific territorial crisis and transition projects?
- What are the state and non-state actors that intervene in such situations and what are their rationales?
- What are the multi-level arrangements that are put in place to promote power-sharing among a variety of actors at a variety of levels?
- Which development ideologies drive reconstruction and crisis management strategies?
- What are sources of knowledge that legitimate such projects and what kind of science-policy interfaces are set-up?
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Governance of transition
Track 05
Governance of transition
Irene Bianchi, Grazia Concilio + Le Anh Nguyen Long
New alliances, networks, constellation of practices are being experimented in fragile contexts, dense of un-responded societal needs. Such models may emerge to fill organisational institutional gaps or support institutional actors having limited capacity or power to effectively activate transformative dynamics. The session aims at exploring what is or can be the role of fragile contexts in the face of the sustainability transition challenge. This session welcomes reflections combining empirical or observational case studies within conceptual frameworks coherent with the session's topic.
Contributors should therefore address the following questions:
- Under which conditions can fragile territories, cities and neighbourhoods contribute to identify collective, local, place sensitive responses to the sustainability challenge?
- What transformative resources are available in such contexts for sustainability transition?
- Are there lessons learnt, narratives, experiences, practices, lifestyles, behaviours that can inspire fertile reflections? Who are protagonist agents of these stories?
- What if fragile contexts are also exposed to climate-related risks where fragility factors act as amplifiers of other forms of vulnerability?
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Sustainability as a challenge, within an integrated perspective
Track 06
Sustainability as a challenge, within an integrated perspective
Eugenio Morello, Maria Chiara Pastore, Andrea De Toni, Livia Shamir + Danielle Sinnett
During the last decade, and particularly during the last years, European and National strategies and efforts for urban, rural, and regional sustainable development, and the associated academic discourse, have mainly focused on dealing with sustainability challenges, and in particular of Green Strategies, considering climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies as main priority. Since then, encouraging scientific results came from different disciplines; however, a strategic and integrated vision and solutions based on complementary expertise are, often, still neglected.
Within this framework, the UN 2030 Agenda with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) timely posed different opportunities and questions on how and to what extent territories are facing sustainability challenges, given new impetus to interdisciplinary policy, planning and practices within an integrated perspective.
The Track aims at addressing the topic within the general objective of the Conference, encouraging contributions aimed at analysing sustainability and their solutions, such as Nature Based Solutions, as a major policy challenge within a context of growing fragilization, discussing the major criticalities and opportunities, contradictions and potentials related (but not limited to):
- Localising SDGs, from global to local perspective and goals: how to transfer global policies of sustainability to local agendas and successfully address and assess sustainability in the governance, planning and implementation of tangible measures in cities and regions?
- NBS implementation to tackle sustainability challenges both in policies and practices: how do local governments promote greening strategies, in particular NBS, within a coherent and solid framework of shared values and goals? How is the societal and environmental impact and the numerous co-benefits of NBS defined, measured and monitored?
- Experiences and Insights from local and regional sustainability policy design and planning practice; how evidence-based policy making and decision-making processes on urban and regional sustainability are supported and promoted?
- NBS and greening measures as a unique opportunity to promote interdisciplinary approaches, hence open to include a wide spectrum of competences in local governance and planning, but at the same time increasing complexity in decision-making routines: For instance, addressing adaptation, mitigation and biodiversity challenges all together through NBS requires the ability to coordinate and manage sound interdisciplinary perspective, in both theories and practices. How do local governments open decision-making and planning to include these new skills? How do they manage complexity? Who is ultimately responsible for planning and designing for sustainability of cities and regions?
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Material welfare, inequalities and territorial fragilization
Track 07
Material welfare, inequalities and territorial fragilization
Agostino Petrillo, Giuliana Costa + Carla Tedesco
The growth of inequalities in urban areas has been accelerated and amplified by COVID-19 pandemic that has resulted in the impoverishment of sections of the population that were previously above the poverty line. Reduced employment opportunities, particularly for temporary workers and the small self-employed, have also made parts of cities that were not previously considered peripheral more fragile and made previously non-peripheral people vulnerable. The pandemic has also highlighted the many shortcomings and fragmentation of local health and social services, of schooling ones and, more generally, of material welfare and welfare policies. We are faced with a changed framework in which it is necessary to rethink urban policies, adapting them to the changes that have taken place and possibly improving them in the light of the challenges that await us today and in the near future.
This track welcomes contributions that address the following questions (but others can also be included):
- How do social and spatial inequalities manifest themselves today in urban contexts?
- How and to what extent peripheries have changed?
- Is there a new socio-spatial fragility of significant sections of the population?
- What actions are needed to tackle these phenomena in a structural and coordinated manner?
- Is it possible to imagine bottom-up forms of welfare which envisage the involvement and participation of citizens?
- How and in what direction should policies to support material welfare be developed? In which fields?
- What welfare policies are needed today to reduce old and new socio-economic inequalities?
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Fragile heritage sites in a globalizing world
Track 08
Fragile heritage sites in a globalizing world
Davide Del Curto, Nicole de Togni, Zachary M. Jones, Davide Ponzini + Paula Russell
Cultural heritage has become increasingly connected to globalization flows – from mass tourism to the involvement of transnational actors and networks such as UNESCO, international experts, policy knowledge sharing networks and the growing calls for heritage-based narratives, projects and solutions. The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated many of these trends by slowing down or halting them completely. This situation provides an opportunity to critically reflect about, and perhaps even improve, the local/global links of heritage sites, their tangible and intangible cultural heritage, in urban contexts and beyond. Within this framework, the track welcomes a variety of research approaches and methods addressing issues including (but not limited to):
- actors, policies and projects connecting local cultures and identities to global flows through processes of recognizing and appreciating heritage sites and practices;
- governance, regulation, …, of heritage policy and cultural offerings responding to internationalization goals or standards, or to city branding, including potential side effects in terms of Disneyfication, touristification, gentrification, etc.;
- the role of international players and initiatives (UNESCO WHS, cultural and other types of mega-events such as the European Capital of Culture) for the preservation/transformation of historic sites and landscapes;
- transnational cooperation networks focusing on heritage expert and policy knowledge;
- the nexus between global experts and local heritage knowledge, or how global actors collect and use information and meanings regarding local places and their customs;
- multiscalar understanding of landscape heritage, with specific focus on transborder and transnational aspects (e.g. Alpine region, Balkan region).
- What welfare policies are needed today to reduce old and new socio-economic inequalities?
The call welcomes proposals including theoretical discussions as well as reflections based on case studies or other methods of investigation, from all quadrants of Europe or other situations relevant to the topic.
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University, urban research and public engagement
Track 09
University and public engagement
Francesca Cognetti, Martino Broz, Alice Ranzini + Cristiana Rossignolo
In the face of current socio-spatial challenges, accentuated by the ongoing pandemic, researchers and HEIs are asked to rethink their public role and increasingly exchange with other societal actors. In Europe and around the world, open science and an "engaged university" model are being experimented both by individual researchers and several academic bodies, nurturing innovative multi-stakeholders research contexts such as Urban Living Labs. According to such a vision, public engagement (PE) is seen as a structural element, being incorporated into research, knowledge production, knowledge exchange, as well as in teaching and society-oriented actions.
This transition towards inclusiveness opens up promising perspectives of more accessible, usable, and tailored processes of knowledge production for societal and territorial change; nonetheless, it also meets some obstacles (including cultural ones) and poses several challenges, since it requires the university to overcome its traditional boundaries, invest in new agendas and adapt methods, tools and formats to the competences and expectations of non-academic stakeholders. This also applies to the field of urban studies, in which PE offers innovative perspectives and insights on different territorial challenges. While the mutual benefit of PE is already appreciated (although often uncertain), further testing, inquiry and consolidation are needed to evaluate impacts on both academic practices and territories.
The track aims to reflect on Public Engagement in the field of urban studies, as a tool to improve research on territorial fragility and social inequalities, addressing, in particular, the following questions:
- What is an “inclusive research process” in the field of urban studies? What tools can promote co-research and co-design in an increasingly complex society?
- How can PE contribute to renewing the ways in which academic knowledge is produced, verified and shared? How can PE approaches (e.g. citizen science) contribute to filling the gap of knowledge on urban fragility?
- What is the role of living labs and akin formats in bridging universities and communities?
- How can an engaged university contribute to balancing socio-spatial inequalities? What role can urban pedagogy play in supporting new skills for territorial fragility?
- How can such a model improve the social impact and common perception of university at a local/urban level?
- What are the direct benefits of PE for an urban researcher? How can PE actions be fully recognized by the academic community as an added value of (urban) research? What kind of adaptations, innovations and investments are needed at the institutional level in order to pursue an engaged university model?
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Economies and territories at risk
Track 10
Economies and territories at risk
Mina Akhavan, Carolina Pacchi + Jurlina Alibegovic Dubravka
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, European territories and their economies showed signs of fragility and vulnerability due to several ongoing drivers, from recurrent economic and financial crises to deepening differences and inequalities in access to opportunities. Due to the pandemic aftermath, the relationships between different forms of production and territories, both in the manufacturing and the tertiary sector, are changing in cities and regions across Europe. Moreover, the configurations of the connection between location of people and economic activities are restructuring, also due to rising forms of remote working.
The Track welcomes contributions discussing conceptual frameworks, as well as empirical studies, that may address issues and propose some answers to questions such as:
- Are the relationships between metropolitan regions and rural hinterlands redesigned after the pandemic? In which direction?
- How are such reconfigurations related to the existing characters of different contexts, in terms of local economies and societies? Which is the role of job markets, service provision systems, accessibility, and infrastructures?
- What are the emerging geographies of work, and how do they impact the different contexts?
- How are the long-standing and deepening forms of territorial inequalities at different scales being challenged, addressed, or exacerbated by the ongoing phenomena?
- How can such new emerging geographies be interpreted and conceptualised in terms of gender and intersectionality?
- How can planning schemes, policy tools, and actions facilitate the revival and renaissance of peripheral, peri-urban, and rural areas
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Recovery and next generation EU observatory
Track 11
Recovery and next generation EU observatory
Simonetta Armondi, Valeria Fedeli, Alberto Bortolotti + Karsten Zimmermann
The Track proposes to compare the ongoing experiences of National Recovery Plans carried out in different countries against the backdrop of the European Union to capture and comment on different approaches to recovery and de-fragilization. The track invites contributions discussing the current experiences in European countries and cities, but also EU policy makers’ contributions aiming at setting up a first, experimental observatory. The Track is organised in collaboration with Urban@it, Centro Nazionale di Studi per le Politiche urbane.
Such contributions could try to find answers to the following questions:
- Recovery plans and the urban dimension: are cities the backdrop or the focus of the plan, and in both cases to which cities and territories (but also to which ideas of cities and territories) do the plans devote attention? What ideas of cities, territories, new geographies can be inferred? To what extent do they concern themselves with the transition taking place, from the point of view of cities and territories?
- Recovery plans and COVID-19: to what extent has it taken on board the impetus/acceleration imparted by the pandemic on certain key issues? Digitisation, employment, health, ecological transition. But also, more generally, in terms of preparedness and territorial fragility awareness?
- National Recovery plans and policy innovation: what issues do the national plans seek to address and how? Is this the last opportunity for forward-looking initiatives? To what extent do they constitute an important space for policy innovation? What are the main keywords (capacity building, knowledge forms, integration, innovation, governance)?
Submissions
Guidelines
Expected Abstract contributions should be limited to a maximum of 250-350 words and should include 3 keywords and 5 references. The abstract must contain original research work conducted by the author(s); it should clearly outline the main argument, scope(s) of the contribution, methodological/ conceptual approaches, and its relevance to the track themes and the core topics of the conference.
Special sessions proposals should be limited to a maximum of 1000 words and should include 3 keywords and 5 references. All abstracts should outline the significance of the contribution and introduce the main arguments from the methodological/conceptual points of view; highlight its relevance to the track themes and the core topics of the conference. Each briefly should introduce the authors/presenters, their specific contribution to the panel, and present a minimum 3 and maximum 4 authors/presenters.
The official language of the EURA 2022 is English. Abstracts will be published in the Book of abstracts.
Important dates
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Dec 23, 2021Call for abstracts published
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Jan 24, 2022Submission of abstracts opens
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Mar 7, 2022New panels proposals submission deadline
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Mar 10, 2022New abstracts proposals submission deadline and Panel announcements
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Apr 1, 2022Review of abstracts deadline and Registration opening
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May 1, 2022Early Registration closing
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May 15, 2022Final deadline for registration (for participants with accepted papers to be included in the Official programme)
We are aware that in this period, it may be difficult to plan your in-person participation in an event. However, we invite you to submit your abstract, considering that the Local Organizing Committee will put in place all the efforts to adapt to the Covid-19 situation in due time. Our infrastructures offer us the opportunity to run a blended event if needed. In case this is totally impossible, the Local Organizing Committee will consider the opportunity to switch to an online event, but this decision will be taken in due time, in order to inform all the authors and allow them to take action accordingly.
Registration
Partecipation fees
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TipologyEarly birdLate registration
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EURA/ UAA Members340,00 €390,00 €
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Non-EURA/ UAA Members385,00 €435,00 €
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EURA/ UAA Members Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia (except China and Japan)230,00 €280,00 €
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Non-EURA/UAA Members Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia (except China and Japan)265,00 €315,00 €
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Research/PhD students215,00 €265,00 €
Registration deadlines
Early bird registration opens: April 1, 2022
Early bird registration closes: May 1, 2022
Final deadline for registration: May 15, 2022
Official Programme
Accepted participants must register by May 15, 2022 (11:59 pm CST) to be included in the official programme.
EURA and UAA Membership Special Fee
EURA and UAA members have a dedicated registration fee, which will be confirmed after checking the membership status by Eura Secretariat.
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Fee coverage
The fee covers: Coffee breaks and lunches during the conference, Opening Event and Social Dinner, Book of Abstracts and Conference Journal, Mobile workshops participation.
Refund policy
COVID-related refund. Up to May 15, 2022, we will allow refunds (minus an administrative fee of 80 euros) if travel to Italy, or, to or from your home country becomes officially restricted due to COVID-19 pandemic alerts. In this case, we will run a blended event and authors will have the opportunity to follow the online events of the conference and present their papers in special online sessions.
Registration procedure
Only credit card payments will be accepted online.
Registration will open on April 1, 2022.
Programme
| June 15 Politecnico di Milano |
June 16 Politecnico di Milano |
June 17 Politecnico di Milano |
June 18 Fondazione Feltrinelli |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | Registration | Registration | ||
| 9:30 - 9:45 | Welcome | Parallel sessions | Policy Roundtable | |
| 9:45 - 11:00 |
Opening session with keynotes Tim Leibert Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde Gianfranco Viesti Università di Bari |
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| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | |
| 11:20 - 13:00 | Parallel sessions | Parallel sessions | Parallel sessions | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break | Lunch break | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | EURA Board Meetings | Mobile workshops / Field sessions | Parallel sessions | Parallel sessions |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | |
| 16:20 - 18:00 | EURA Board Meetings | Parallel sessions |
Final keynotes session Sara Meerow Arizona State University Oren Yftachel Ben Gurion University |
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| 18:00 - 18:15 |
Broken cities Joint public event EURA-FGF |
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| 18:15 - 18:30 | EURA general assembly | |||
| 18:30 - 19:00 |
Broken cities Joint public event EURA-FGF |
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| 19:00 - 20:00 |
Evening reception Fondazione Riccardo Catella DJ set BAM |
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| 20:00 - 23:00 |
Conference dinner Olinda |
Art performance |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | |
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| 9:45 - 11:00 | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | |
| 11:20 - 13:00 | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | EURA Board Meetings |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Coffee break |
| 16:20 - 18:00 | EURA Board Meetings |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | |
| 18:15 - 18:30 | |
| 18:30 - 19:00 |
Broken cities Joint public event EURA-FGF |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | |
| 20:00 - 23:00 |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Registration |
|---|---|
| 9:30 - 9:45 | Welcome |
| 9:45 - 11:00 |
Opening session with keynotes Tim Leibert Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde Gianfranco Viesti Università di Bari |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 13:00 | Parallel sessions |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Mobile workshops / Field sessions |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | |
| 16:20 - 18:00 | |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | |
| 18:15 - 18:30 | |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 |
Evening reception Fondazione Riccardo Catella DJ set BAM |
| 20:00 - 23:00 |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Registration |
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| 9:30 - 9:45 | Parallel sessions |
| 9:45 - 11:00 | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 13:00 | Parallel sessions |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Parallel sessions |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Coffee break |
| 16:20 - 18:00 | Parallel sessions |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | |
| 18:15 - 18:30 | EURA general assembly |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | |
| 20:00 - 23:00 |
Conference dinner Olinda |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | |
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| 9:30 - 9:45 | Policy Roundtable |
| 9:45 - 11:00 | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 13:00 | Parallel sessions |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Parallel sessions |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Coffee break |
| 16:20 - 18:00 |
Final keynotes session Sara Meerow Arizona State University Oren Yftachel Ben Gurion University |
| 18:00 - 18:15 |
Broken cities Joint public event EURA-FGF |
| 18:15 - 18:30 | |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | |
| 20:00 - 23:00 | Art performance |
Locations
The conference will take place in two different locations. On Wednesday 15th, Thursday 16th and Friday 17th, all the conference activities will be hosted at Politecnico di Milano, AUIC School, Via Ampere 1 (Metro Line 2, Piola Station); on Saturday, the conference will be hosted at Fondazione GianGiacomo Feltrinelli, Viale Pasubio, 5, (Metro Line 2, Garibaldi Station).
Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is a partner of the Conference and a Leading Cultural Foundation in Italy; the collaboration with EURA is a special opportunity to share the results of the Conference with a wider public, experimenting a new form of outreach also for EURA Conferences.
Field sessions / Mobile Workshops
Tracks have been designed in tight coordination with a programme of mobile workshops: these have been organised as urban explorations, aimed at providing the participants of the different tracks the opportunity to be in touch with cases/places/people that can inspire the participants and feeding the conference activities.
For this reason, participants are invited to consider the Mobile workshops as an integral part of the Track, as a special field session, where they will have the opportunity to “meet” the city of Milan, its stories, protagonists, and contradictions. Each participant is invited to follow the Mobile workshop organised with each Track where he/she will present his/her abstract.
Social events
The Social Dinner will be held at Parco Trotter, in the spaces of the Ex-Convitto, a new initiative developed by our conference partner Olinda, a social enterprise founded in 1996, which has been a forerunner of social innovation in the Milanese context (Metro Line 1, Rovereto).
The Evening Reception will be organised in collaboration with our conference partners Coima and Fondazione Riccardo Catella, active in the city of Milan since 2007, to spread the culture of sustainability in urban development, contributing to a better quality of life, with a particular focus on open spaces (Metro Line 2, Garibaldi Station).
Venue & Host
EURA 2022 conference will take place in Milan, Italy. The Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at Politecnico di Milano will host and organize the event.
Milano in 2021 was ranked second in terms of quality of life in the country. While according to the international press, it is the city to be, for its glamour and quality of experiences. At the same time, The Economist declares Italy the country of the year for 2021, as the one which improved the most, trying to react to the Covid-19 pandemic. Of course, these positive images dialogue with a particular period where both the city and the country must confront consistent and dramatic challenges. EURA 2022 will throw you in this context, offering several opportunities to experience the aspirations and contradictions of such a special moment.
Politecnico di Milano: established in 1863, it is one of the leading Universities in the fields of Engineering, Design and Architecture in Italy and with a global reputation. The Department of Architecture and Urban Studies is one of Italy's most important research facilities in urban studies, located in a solid international network of research centres and institutions open to forms of cooperation with institutional and social actors at local, national and international level. The conference will be held in the Città Studi Campus, recently renovated and part of a very lively neighbourhood. The topic of the Conference is inspired by the Research Project “Project of Excellence - Territorial Fragilities” funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
Awards & publication policy
Young Scholars Award
The track chairs will suggest up to 3 papers per track to the scientific committee that will make the final decision based on the chairs' recommendation, supported by members of the EURA Board. The Young scholars award consist of a travel grant for the next EURA or the next Urban Affairs Association conference in the US.
Best Paper Award
The track chairs will select the best paper in their tracks and a Best paper award committee will review the selected papers; the author of these papers will have the opportunity to publish her/his paper in a dedicated special issue of the Journal Urban Research and practices. The paper will go through the normal refereeing process.