SUMMERSCHOOL Interactive Moscow: spatial theories, practices, interventions. Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow. 4.-12.7.2012.

http://www.interactive-city.org/ From 4-12 July, “Interactive City” will hold a summer school at “Strelka” – Interactive Moscow: spatial theories, practices, interventions. The central theme of the school will be the study of specific urban issues and trends; its aim, the engagement of young researchers and practitioners, professionals and citizens into equal dialogue. Interactive Moscow: spatial theories, …

3. European Urban Summer School “Times of scarcity: reclaiming the possibility of making”, 21.-30.09.2012. University of Westminster, London, UK. Deadline: 31.05.12

European Urban Summer School 2012 – University of Westminster Link to homepage: http://www.scibe.eu/euss/886/ Times of scarcity: reclaiming the possibility of making Globalisation, climate change, resource depletion and financial crises are the prevailing – and often crippling – conditions which shape our immediate professional and academic lives and longer-term futures. In our times of rapid change, …

SEMINAR Urban photography summer school 2012 Goldsmiths, University of London. Deadline: June 3rd 2012

www.gold.ac.uk/cucr/summer%20school/ Urban photography summer school 2012 Goldsmiths, University of London Designed for photographers, artists and urbanists whose work addresses notions of urban space and culture the international Summer School provides a highly intensive two week practical and theoretical training in key aspects of urban visual practice. The course aims to offer participants a wide range …

WS SEM: summerLab 2012, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit. Bucharest | Fuzzy Urbanisms, Zurich | Liminal Contours, Rome | Occupation City. First deadline: 11.06.2012

summerLab 2012 The Development Planning Unit, UCL is proud to announce the launch of its summerLab 2012 series coordinated by Dr. Camillo Boano, William Hunter, Anna Schulenburg and Giorgio Talocci. The workshop dates are: Bucharest | Fuzzy Urbanisms  23 – 28 July Zurich | Liminal Contours 6 – 11 August Rome | Occupation City 10 …

CIEE Summer 2012 International Faculty Development Seminar in Turkey “Consuming Istanbul: Space, Spectacle and the Politics of Popular Culture” 11.-22.06.12 Istanbul

CIEE Summer 2012 International Faculty Development Seminar in Turkey “Consuming Istanbul: Space, Spectacle and the Politics of Popular Culture” http://www.ciee.org/ifds/seminars/turkey/index.aspx June 11 – 22, 2012 Program Description: Since the 1980’s, Turkey, in particular Istanbul, has seen unprecedented transformations with the influences of rapid urbanization, the emergence of consumerism and the “opening” up to new configurations …

Summer school “History Takes Place – Urban Change in Europe”, Paris

www.history-takes-place.de Since 2003 the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius has invited up to twenty young historians and social scientists (usually postgraduate students) annually to take part in studies programmes in various locations. The aim is to find the traces of history in the topography, architecture and monuments of the place. The city itself is ‘read’ …

Summer School Metropolitan Studies at Georg Simmel Center, August 16-26 2010

http://www.international.hu-berlin.de/an_die_hu/studienbewerber/stipendien/evz/sommer-winter-unis/sommeruniversitat/metrostudies/index_html What makes a city a city? – Berlin between urbanity, fragmentation and micro-topias From August 16-26, for the third year running, the Summer School “Metropolitan Studies“ will take place at the Georg Simmel Center. Entitled “What makes a city a city? Berlin between urbanity, fragmentation and micro-topias” the Summer School wants to explore the …

Sommerschule 25. – 29. Juli 2010 Diskurs und Raum in Erlangen

Humangeographische Sommerschulen Gesellschaft und Raum http://www.humangeographische-sommerschulen.de/ Die Vorstellung gegebener Räume wird seit einigen Jahren in der Humangeographie aber auch in zahlreichen benachbarten Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften hinterfragt. Nicht zuletzt mit dem cultural turn in der Geographie und dem spatial turn in den Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften werden Konzepte diskutiert, die sich für die diskursive Herstellung und Reproduktion …