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Vacancy Professor of Architectural Design and Engineering Deadline for applications: 1 June 2012 Introduction The education and research of the Architectural Design and Engineering chair at TU/e focus on the study of building design. An essential aspect of this work is finding the right balance between functional and technical core design and expressive art form. …
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Call for Papers ARCHITECTURAL ELECTIVE AFFINITIES correspondences, transfers, inter/multidisciplinarity EAHN / FAUUSP – Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo 20-24 March 2013 São Paulo/Brazil We are pleased to announce the EAHN /FAUUSP conference, to be held between March 21th and 24th 2013 in Sao Paolo, at FAUUSP (Faculdade de Arquitetura e …
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 …
Lehr- und Forschungsbereich “Geschichte und Kulturen der Räume in der Neuzeit”, Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Erfurt 18.05.2012, Erfurt, IBZ – Internationales Begegnungszentrum der Universität Erfurt, Michaelisstraße 38, 99084 Erfurt Cities have been producing their own maps, e.g. for purposes of representation, control or orientation, right from the beginning of the 15th century, if not before. The …
Korea’s Place in the World: Now and Twenty Years Hence CALL FOR PAPERS BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR KOREAN STUDIES What is the future for the Korean peninsula, north and south, in the world of 2032? What are some major drivers of change that will create the Korea of 2032? What are possible scenarios for urbanisation and …
URBAN VIOLENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST New Histories of Place and Event School of Oriental and African Studies University of London 13th-15th February 2013 Theme and Scope As part of an AHRC/DFG-funded Anglo-German research project on the history of urban violence in the modern Middle East, this international conference seeks to develop new discussions on …
35th Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS) Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum / TU Dortmund 1–5 October, 2012 Plenary Session Life In-Between: Putting the Integration Paradigm to the Test “Integration” is the topical issue of the hour as far as finding a solution to the social problems of heterogenic societies is concerned. On both a national and …
EMBODYING URBAN ASIA Workshop at the National University of Singapore 29 to 30 November 2012 http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=1276 Deadline: 23 July 2012 Asian cities have attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. Existing academic literature includes examination of the spatial effects of transforming economies, such as infrastructural challenges, projects of gentrification and new forms of social deprivation …
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http://urbanportal.org The Urban Portal is an online hub designed to provide experts and non-experts easy access to current research and resources on urban issues. The Portal is a core project of the University of Chicago Urban Network, an emerging community of scholars and others that aims to spur innovation in the study of urban processes …
ACTIVE URBANISM 22nd International Network of Urban Research and Action (INURA) Tallinn, Estonia 17-20 June, 2012 http://inura2012tallinn.wordpress.com/ Registration will be open until May 1st 2012 Following the tradition of INURA meetings the conference is focused on critically discussing contemporary urban developments through presentations, panel sessions, exciting urban field trips, and more.