Re-City Conference 2025 – Urban Democracy and Radical Care
- 30 – 31 October 2025
- Tampere University, Finland
- Conference website
- Call for Papers (open until 25 April)
- Fees and registration
- The event is mainly in-person, but some parts of the conference have an online option.
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. For us, radical care means recognizing urban vulnerabilities and carrying collective responsibility with and for our cities by adopting caring and critical approaches and practices. We link care with democracy to highlight how care is crucial for everyday democratic action and vice versa, if we want to create care-full cities and inclusive societies.
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.
We now welcome abstracts submissions to these themes from researchers, practitioners, artists, and PhD students who are contributing to these vital conversations. We encourage interdisciplinary contributions from fields such as architecture, arts, education, human geography, law, management, philosophy, social sciences, urban planning, and more.
Read the full Call for Papers and instructions here >>> Call for Papers
Submit your abstract by 25 April here >>> ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FORM
After the Re-City Conference, there will be an option to publish in the DATUTOP series. Presenters who wish to submit the book chapter will mark this in the abstract submission form, and the editors will invite the suitable abstracts/papers for the book.
Note the simultaneous Call for Papers of the ATUT Architectural Research Symposium. Both Re-City Conference and ATUT Symposium are part of the wider Radical Care for the City week at Tampere University.
Important dates
- Abstract submission opens: 3 March 2025
- Abstract submission deadline: 25 April 2025
- Notification on abstract decision: 4 June 2025
- Registration opens: 5 June 2025
- Registration deadline: 26 September 2025
- Re-City Conference: 30 – 31 October 2025
For any inquiries, please contact the organizers at radicalcare2025@tuni.fi.
The Re-City Conference is organized by TURNS Research Platform, Democracy Research Network and JUSTSPACES Research Network at Tampere University, in collaboration with the Research Group ASUTUT and the Architecture Unit at TUNI.