Contested Urbanscape

Themes

Conference Themes

1. Heritage, Culture and Identity in Urban Realities

   Examines how heritage, culture, and identity shape and are shaped by urban environments. Explores how preservation and reinterpretation of heritage reveal links between urban form and cultural identity.

2. Innovative Policies and Practices for Decision-making around Urban Form

   Examines policies and practices enabling inclusive, participatory decision-making in shaping urban form. Draws on case studies to identify strategies for sustainable urban development.

3. Transfers and Trajectories of Intelligences in the Theory and History of Urban Form

   Traces the evolution and transfer of intelligences within urban theory and history. Seeks to uncover mechanisms driving the transmission and transformation of urban knowledge.

4. Unveiling Urban Realities: Informality, Segregation, and Exclusion

   Explores the causes and spatial impacts of informality, segregation, and exclusion in urban life. Examines power structures and inequalities to identify strategies for inclusive urban environments.

5. Climate Change and Resilience in Uncertain Urban Realities

   Explores strategies for building resilience and adaptive capacity amid climate change and urban uncertainty. Integrates scientific, technological, and community-based approaches for sustainable development.

6. Integrating One Health Principles into Urban Form for Enhanced Well-being

   Explores integrating One Health principles linking human, animal, and environmental health into urban form. Uses interdisciplinary approaches to enhance public health through urban design.

7. Unlocking Urban Dynamics

   Exploring intelligences and research methods and innovative approaches and methodologies for studying urban form and transformation.

Who Can Participate

Early career researchers, PhD scholars, research fellows, academicians, practitioners and professionals with interest in the conference themes can participate.