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Call for papers! Re-City Conference 2025 – Urban Democracy and Radical Care (30-31 October, Tampere)

Radical care week October 2025

We are happy to invite abstracts for the Re-City Conference, organized at Tampere University in October 2025. Please, feel free to share this invitation in your networks.
DRN is participating in the organization of the Re-City Conference together with TURNS Research Platform and JUSTSPACES Research Network at Tampere University, in collaboration with the Research Group ASUTUT and the Architecture Unit at TUNI.

Re-City Conference 2025 – Urban Democracy and Radical Care

Keynote speakers: Ross Beveridge (University of Glasgow), Sabine Knierbein (Technische Universität Wien), Päivi Kymäläinen (Tampere University)

In the 3rd International Re-City Conference, we focus on the questions of radical care, justice, democracy, and the city. We divide our approach into four partly overlapping themes of 1) the theory and ethics of care in the city 2) urban transformation, 3) social and spatial justice, and 4) urban democracy and activism. You can read more about the themes here.

Please, read the full Call for Papers and submit your abstract proposal by 25 April here >>> Call for Papers

We wish the participants to attend the conference onsite for networking and vivid discussions, but there is also an online participation opportunity (see the Call for Papers for the online group).

Re-City Conference is part of the wider Radical Care for the City week at Tampere University. See also other program of the week, Architectural Research Symposium ATUT (27-28 October) and Open Day (29 October).

For any inquiries, please contact the organizers at radicalcare2025@tuni.fi.