IFOU2024: Urbanism of Hope Hong Kong Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 12-14, 2024 |
| Conference website | https://ifou2024.global |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifou2024 |
| Submission deadline | July 29, 2024 |
IFoU 2024 Online Conference: Urbanism of Hope
Global Relay, 48 Hours, 6 Cities
The 16th conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) will take place from 12 to 14 December 2024.
In contrary to former IFoU conferences, the 2024 conference will not be hosted by one university but will be organized as collective event by six member institutions of IFoU: Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Auckland, National Taiwan University, EPFL Lausanne, Delft University of Technology and University of Buenos Aires. Under the general theme, each participating institution becomes the host for one sub-theme that will be presented online for 4 hours during the conference. In this way, following the presentations of the different sub-themes from host to host becomes a virtual tour around the world.
Conference Theme: Urbanism of Hope: Reframing the Local and Global Relationships
In the midst of a structural crisis worldwide that is characterized by natural disasters, growing social and economic tensions as well as increasing political, even military conflicts the 16th conference of IFoU will focus on attempts, approaches and solutions on local level: To what extent initiatives on local level are able to combat or to reduce the impact of environmental disasters, to improve local resiliency, to stimulate the local economy and social integration, to bridge political contradictions and to overcome fragmentation, segregation and separation. In this framework planning approaches and design concepts will be discussed under the following 5 themes and related experiences from local governments, NGO’s, local resident movements, and initiatives for the local economy.
Conference Subthemes:
1 CONNECTIVITY AND ACCESSIBILITY IN THE AGE OF MEDIATED RELATIOAL MOBILITY
Hosts: Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Auckland
2 GOVERNMENTALITY AND LOCAL PARTICIPATION
Host: National Taiwan University
3 LOCAL RESILIENCY. CRISIS AND CATASTROPHES AS LABORATORIES OF LOCAL/ GLOBAL INNOVATION, ADAPTION AND SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL CHANGE
Host: EPFL Lausanne
4 SPACES FOR LOCAL ECONOMY
Host: Delft University of Technology
5 SPACES OF INTEGRATION – LIVING TOGETHER
Host: University of Buenos Aires
The conference aims to investigate local wisdom and creativity in search for a new Urbanism of Hope in these times of crisis, exploring hope as a social construction and necessary condition of human society (E. Bloch). Any project inevitably is accompanied by an act of hope. The debate on the conference will focus on the question, to what extent local experiences can be generalized and linked to each other to overcome the urban crisis on a global level.
Submission Guidelines
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the International Forum on Urbanism by submitting abstracts of about 400 words and with 2 – 8 keywords under one of the sub-themes. We accept abstracts in the English language in Microsoft Word or PDF format.
The deadline to submit abstracts will be 29 July 2024.
All abstracts will be assessed by the Scientific Board of IFoU. The authors of the selected abstracts will be invited to for presentation on the conference. Each paper should be presented within 15 minutes during the conference.
Authors may choose to submit full papers to be included in post-conference publications based on scientific committee’s recommendation. The best paper awards, selected by an international jury from submitted full papers, will be awarded at the end of the conference.
Organizing Committee
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Prof. Jürgen ROSEMANN
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Dr. WANG Chiu-Yuan, Vivienne
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Dr. ZHANG Ye
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Prof. Hendrik TIEBEN (Chair)
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Dr. Manfredo MANFREDINI(Co-Chair)
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Dr. KANG Min-Jay (Co-Chair)
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Prof. Paola VIGANO (Co-Chair)
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Prof. Machiel VAN DORST (Co-Chair)
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Prof. Flavio JANCHES (Co-Chair)
Contact
ifou2024@cuhk.edu.hk